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Currently Professor Emeritus in Political Science and a Faculty Fellow
in the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie, Dr. Denis
Stairs attended Dalhousie, Oxford and the University of Toronto. A
former President of the Canadian Political Science Association and a
member for six years of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada, he was the founding Director of Dalhousie’s Centre
for Foreign Policy Studies from 1970 to 1975.
He
served as Chair of his Department from 1980 to 1985 and as Dalhousie’s
Vice-President (Academic and Research) from 1988 to 1993. A Fellow of
the Royal Society of Canada and Chair of the Board of Visitors of the
Canadian Forces College, he specializes in Canadian foreign and
defence policy, Canada-US Relations and similar subjects.
Dr. Stairs was appointed an Officer of
the Order of Canada in 2006.
Keywords: Canadian foreign and defence policy, Canadian-US
relations
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