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The Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs
Institute (CDFAI) “Fellows” program
consists of experts in Canadian defence,
foreign affairs, and development policy
from across Canada. Some are affiliated
with academic institutions and some have
extensive backgrounds in diplomatic, aid
or military pursuits. They have agreed
to affiliate themselves with CDFAI to
create a core of expertise that the
Institute can draw upon for its research
projects, its role as a responder to
media contacts, and to fill the
increasing demand for speakers on these
topics. All of our Fellows regularly
contribute to our quarterly newsletter.
Please see below for an alphabetical
list of the CDFAI Fellows and the key
words they have chosen to describe their
areas of expertise. For further
information on communicating with the
CDFAI Fellows, please contact:
Sarah Magee
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs
Institute
Phone: (613) 288-2529
contact@cdfai.org
Current Research Fellows
listing:
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Bob Bergen
Bob Bergen received
his Ph.D. from the Center for Military
and Strategic Studies at the University
of Calgary in 2005. He holds a Bachelor
of Arts degree from Brock University in
St. Catharines, Ontario, and a Master of
Communications Studies degree from the
University of Calgary.
His Ph.D. thesis topic researched the
Canadian air force participation in the
Kosovo air war and the Canadian
military’s management of the nation’s
English-language news media during that
war.
Bob is a former journalist who left the
Calgary Herald in 2000 after 20
years to pursue his Ph.D. full-time. He
began specializing in writing about the
Canadian Forces in the mid-1970s at
The Albertan. His work revealing
Canadian soldiers in Calgary were on
provincial welfare roles prompted
federal changes to the Forces housing
policies and won The Albertan a
Governor-General’s citation for
Meritorious Public Service in Canadian
Journalism in 1979.
He joined the Calgary Herald in
1980. In addition to his domestic work,
his coverage of the Forces included
assignments on United Nations and North
Atlantic Treaty Organization operations
in the Middle East (1977), Cyprus
(1978), Cold War Europe (1978) and in
Croatia and Bosnia (1994). He also sat
on the Editorial Boards of both the
Calgary Herald and The Albertan.
He attended the National Security
Studies Course at National Defence
College (March –April 1992).
In December, 2007, Bob traveled to NATO
headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and
Kabul and Kandahar, Afghanistan, as part
of a fact-finding trip for members of
Canada’s Strategic Defence Forum Centres
on NATO’s role in Afghanistan organized
jointly by NATO and Canada’s Department
of National Defence.
He is an Adjunct
Assistant Professor at the University of
Calgary’s Centre for Military and
Strategic Studies and a Fellow of the
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs
Institute.
In 2001- 2002 he
was a media fellow with the Sheldon
Chumir Foundation for Ethics and
Leadership and authored the report
“Exposing the Boss:
A study in Canadian Journalism
Ethics.”
His other
publications include:
Bergen, Robert.
“Throwing the Baby Out with the
Bathwater: Canadian Forces News Media
Relations and Operational Security” in
How Canadians Communicate IV Media and
Politics. Taras, David and Waddell,
Christopher, eds. (Edmonton: Athabasca
University Press, 2012).
Bergen, Robert.
Censorship; the Canadian News Media and
Afghanistan: A Historical Comparison
with Case Studies (Calgary: The
Calgary Papers, University of Calgary
Press, 2009)
Bergen, Bob. “Sheathing the Terrible
Swift Sword: Classic Civil-Military
Relations Versus Modern Canadian
Reality.”
Perspectives on War, Volume 2.
The Society for Military and
Strategic Studies, The University of
Calgary, 2003
He authored
thousands of newspaper, magazine
articles and book reviews in The
Albertan and the Calgary Herald from
1976 to 1999.
He is a frequent
media commentator who, since 2000, has
authored articles in or given interviews
to newspapers across Canada including:
The Globe and Mail, the National Post,
the Ottawa Citizen, The Toronto Star,
LaPresse, The Gazette (Montreal),
Macleans, Jane’s Defence Weekly, The
Hill Times, The Windsor Star, The
Hamilton Spectator, The Edmonton
Journal, the Calgary Herald, the
Winnipeg Free Press, The Western Star
(Corner Brook) and The Guardian
(Charlottetown),
He has also given
interviews or otherwise appeared on CBC
Television’s The National and Newsworld,
CTV Television, Global Television’s
National News, Super Channel Television,
TV Ontario’s “The Agenda”, CBC’s Spin
Cycles and CBC Live Online.
Keywords: Canadian
Parliament, military deployments, the
Canadian Air Force during the Kosovo air
war, media-military relations, Canadian
journalism ethics
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Brian Bow
Brian Bow (BA UBC, MA York, PhD Cornell)
is an Associate Professor of Political
Science at Dalhousie University, and a
Senior Fellow at American University’s
Center for North American Studies
(CNAS). He has previously been a
visiting researcher at the Woodrow
Wilson Center, American University,
Georgetown University, Carleton
University, and the Australian National
University. His work has been supported
by major grants and awards from SSHRC,
Fulbright Foundation, PIERAN, Mellon
Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and
the John F. Kennedy Presidential
Library.
Most of his research has been concerned
with North American regional politics,
US-Canada, and US-Mexico relations, but
he is more generally interested in
diplomatic norms and practices, coercive
bargaining, regional security
cooperation, and the links between
domestic institutions and international
policy coordination. His first book,
The Politics of Linkage: Power,
Interdependence, and Ideas in Canada-US
Relations was awarded the Donner
Prize for 2009. He has also co-edited
volumes on Canadian foreign policy (An
Independent Foreign Policy for Canada?,
2008) and on Mexico’s security
challenges in regional perspective (The
State and Security in Mexico, 2012),
and numerous journal articles and book
chapters. He is currently working on two
books on North American regional
politics: a monograph on the history of
regional integration (The Making and
Unmaking of North America), and an
edited volume on post-NAFTA regional
policy-coordination (Building without
Architecture).
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Aurélie
Campana
Aurélie Campana is associate
professor in political science at Laval
University, Quebec City. She holds the
Canada Research Chair on conflicts and
terrorism. She is also member of the
Institut québécois des hautes études
internationals, of the Centre
International de Criminologie Comparée
and of the Canadian Research Network on
Terrorism, Security and Society. She got
a PhD from the Institute of Political
Studies of Strasbourg, France. After
having extensively published on identity
construction, she specializes in
conflict and terrorism studies. She is
currently working on the strategic use
of terrorism in insurgency. She is also
working on the epistemological and
methodological problems in terrorism
studies. Her areas of studies are
Caucasus (North and South) and Central
Asia. Her most recent publications have
appeared in Studies in
Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and
Political Violence and Civil Wars.
She is the co-editor (with Gérard
Hervouet) of a book on Terrorism and
Insurgency (Presses Universitaires
du Québec, 2013).
Keywords: ethnic
conflict, insurgency, terrorism,
counter-insurgency, North Caucasus,
Central Asia
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David Carment
David Carment is a Professor of
International Affairs at the Norman
Paterson School of International
Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa. He
served as Director of the Centre for
Security and Defence Studies at Carleton
University from 2002-2004. His recent
books include, Peacekeeping
Intelligence, Conflict Prevention: From
Rhetoric to Reality, Using Force to
Prevent Ethnic Violence: An Evaluation
of Theory and Evidence and Conflict
Prevention: Path to Peace or Grand
Illusion? In addition Carment serves as
the principal investigator for the
Country Indicators for Foreign Policy
project. His most recent work focuses on
developing failed state risk assessment
and early warning methodologies
evaluating models of third party
intervention.
In 2000-2001 Carment was a Fellow at
Harvard University's Belfer Center.
While there he contributed an article on
peacekeeping for Harvard International
Review and a co-authored a paper on
"Bias and Intervention" for the BCSIA
Working Paper Series.
Keywords: Ethnic conflict,
communication technologies in conflict
analysis & resolution, early warning,
peacekeeping, conflict prevention, peace
building & security issues in South and
Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe & Africa
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Mark
Collins
Mark Collins was a research assistant
for
Documents on Canadian
External Relations,
Vol.
6,
1936 - 39
(1972),
for Volumes 2-3 of
Mike: The Memoirs of the Rt.
Hon. Lester B. Pearson
(1973, 1975) and for
One Canada: Memoirs of the
Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker(1975).
He served with the Department of
External Affairs from 1974-1988, with
postings in Pakistan (1975-77, also
covering Afghanistan) and Yugoslavia
(1984-87, also covering Bulgaria); from
1982-84 he was seconded to the
Intelligence Advisory Committee
Secretariat at the Privy Council Office
as Current Intelligence Coordinator.
Mr Collins then worked for Solicitor
General Canada (as a normal bureaucrat!)
from 1988-1997 on various aspects of
security and counter-terrorism policy,
as well as on Canadian relations with
the European Community/Union respecting
various interior ministry matters. He
finished his career as a public servant
with the Canadian Coast Guard from
1997-2002, mainly engaged in federal
emergency preparedness planning
involving the Department of Fisheries
and Oceans as a whole.
After his retirement Mr Collins
eventually fell into the blogging trap
and has become a major contributor to
the CDFAI's
The 3DS Blog
(as a firm believer in OSINT). He
has read Aviation Week and Space
Technology for many years and has
had a personal subscription quite a
while.
Mr Collins has a B.A in History (with
distinction) from Carleton University,
1970.
Keywords: Defence issues,
Canadian defence and security policy,
military history, international
relations.
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James Fergusson
James Fergusson is a Professor in the
Department of Political Studies and
Director of the Centre for Defence and
Security Studies at the University of
Manitoba. He teaches and researches in
the fields of strategic studies,
Canada-U.S. defence relations and
Canadian Defence Policy. He is the
author of Canada and Ballistic Missile
Defence 1954-2009: Déjà vu All Over
again (Canadian War Museum Military
History Series, Vancouver, University of
Manitoba Press, 2010) and co-author of
Military Space Power: Current Issues
(New York: Praeger International
Security Series. 2009). Other recent
publications include The RCAF in 2025:
At the Crossroads (The Canadian Forces
in 2025. Jack Granastein, ed. 2013) and
The Right Debate: Airpower, the Future
of War, Canada’s Strategic Interests and
the F-35 Decision (Canadian Foreign
Policy Journal, 17:3, 2011).
In addition to his publications, he is a
member of the Defence Science Advisory
Board and the Honorary Colonel of the
Canadian Forces School of Aerospace
Studies.
Keywords: strategic
studies, nuclear weapons, ballistic
missile defence, aerospace, military
space, Canada-US defence relations,
Canadian Defence Policy.
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John Ferris
Dr. Ferris, formerly the Head of the
History Department at The University of
Calgary is a specialist in military and
diplomatic history, as well as in
intelligence. He continues to work on
the formation of strategic policy and on
the value and limits to intelligence in
decision-making. He has written widely
about British diplomacy and strategy
between the 1870's and 1945, and on the
history of British code-breaking. He has
also published on topics like sea power
between the World Wars, American
intelligence, strategic air defence, and
western perceptions of Japanese military
power. John Ferris has recently
published three studies on contemporary
intelligence and the RMA, and
intelligence in the Gulf War of 2003. At
present, John Ferris is writing books on
Anglo-Japanese strategic relations,
1900-1945, British signals intelligence,
1890-1945, and on how policy makers can
use intelligence.
Keywords: Strategy, intelligence,
military history, international
relations, contemporary US military
policy
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Andrew
Godefroy
Andrew B. Godefroy is a
strategic analyst serving on the adjunct
faculties at the Royal Military College
of Canada and the University of Calgary.
His research focuses on the
relationship between armed forces and
the state, with a particular interest in
the future security environment, defence
policy and strategy, innovation,
organizational behaviour and culture,
leadership and command, and science,
technology, and security.
Andrew has earned academic
degrees from Concordia University (BA)
and the Royal Military College of Canada
(MA, PhD), as well as a prestigious
post-doctoral visiting research
fellowship in the Changing Character of
War Programme at Oxford University.
With over two decades of military
service, he is also a graduate of the
Canadian Forces School of Military
Engineering, the Canadian Forces School
of Aerospace Studies, the Canadian Land
Forces Command and Staff College
(Kingston), the Joint Operations Staff
Course (United Kingdom), as well as the
Canadian Forces Joint Command and Staff
Program (Toronto).
He is a regular advisor and
lecturer on defence decision-making and
technology affairs, with several
appearances in social media, television,
radio, and in print.
He is currently the
editor-in-chief of the Canadian Army
Journal, and is a member of the
editorial boards of The Canadian
Military Journal, Canadian
Military History, and The Journal
of First World War Studies. He is
also a fellow at the Laurier Centre for
Military Strategic and Disarmament
Studies.
His ongoing work in developing
the military’s intellectual foundations
and academic research networks has
previously earned him an army
commander’s commendation and, in 2012,
the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.
The author of over 40
scholarly publications including books,
chapters, and articles, his most recent
works are (with Peter Gizewski eds.)
Towards Land Operations 2021: Studies in
Support of the Force Employment Concept
for the Army of Tomorrow (2009);
(ed.) Bush Warfare: The Early
Writings of General Sir William Heneker
KCB, KCMG, DSO (2009); (ed.)
Projecting Power: Canada’s Air Force
2035 (2009); (ed.) Great War
Commands: Historical Perspectives on
Canadian Army Leadership, 1914-1918
(2010); Defence & Discovery: Canada’s
Military Space Program, 1945-75
(2011); and, In Peace Prepared:
Innovation and Evolution in Canada’s
Early Cold War Army (2014).
Keywords: future security environment; defence policy;
strategy; organizational behaviour and
culture; leadership and command;
decision-making; aerospace; cyberspace;
technology and security.
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Whitney Lackenbauer
P. Whitney
Lackenbauer, Ph.D. (Calgary, 2004), is
associate professor and chair of the
department of history at St. Jerome’s
University (University of Waterloo),
Ontario, Canada. He is also a fellow
with the Laurier Centre for Military
Strategic and Disarmament Studies, the
Centre for Military and Strategic
Studies, the Centre for International
Governance Innovation, and the Arctic
Institute of North America. Dr.
Lackenbauer specializes in Arctic
security and sovereignty issues, modern
Canadian military and diplomatic
history, and Aboriginal-military
relations.
As a Canadian
International Council Research Fellow in
2008-09, Dr. Lackenbauer completed a
report entitled From Polar
Race to Polar Saga: An Integrated
Strategy for Canada and the Circumpolar
World (July 2009).
His recent books include Arctic
Front: Defending Canada in the Far North
(with Ken Coates, Bill Morrison, and
Greg Poelzer, 2008) (winner of the 2009
Donner Prize for the best book on
Canadian public policy),
The Canadian
Forces and Arctic Sovereignty: Debating
Roles, Interests, and Requirements,
1968-1974
(forthcoming fall 2009),
Battle Grounds: The
Canadian Military and Aboriginal Lands
(2007), and
Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian
Military: Historical Perspectives
(2007).
His current research
includes studies of the Canadian
Rangers, the Distant Early Warning (DEW)
Line, high modernism and social science
in the Cold War Arctic,
Aboriginal-military relations in British
settler societies during the Second
World War, and a comparative study of
Native blockades and occupations.
Keywords: Circumpolar affairs,
Arctic security, civil-military
relations, military history,
Aboriginal-state relations, Canadian
foreign and defence policy
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Natalia Loukacheva
Dr.
Natalia Loukacheva is a
Research Associate at the Munk School of
Global Affairs, University of Toronto,
Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law
School graduate program on energy and
infrastructure, York University
(Canada), the first Nansen Professor of
Arctic Studies (Iceland-Norway
initiative), a Visiting Professor of
Polar Law in Iceland, and Associate
Scientist with Stefansson Arctic
Institute. She
was the founding Director
of the Graduate
Polar
Law Program
and taught law at the University of
Akureyri, Iceland (2008-2010). She
holds a Doctor of Juridical Science
(S.J.D.) from the Faculty of Law,
University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
(2004) and a Doctor of Philosophy (law)
from the Urals State Law Academy
(Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation)
(1999).
Dr.
Loukacheva specializes in international
and comparative constitutional law, with
research interest in the Arctic.
She is the author of The Arctic
Promise: Legal and Political Autonomy of
Greenland and Nunavut (University of
Toronto Press, Canada: 2007), the editor
of the Polar Law Textbook (Nordic
Council of Ministers (NCM), TemaNord
538, Denmark: 2010
www.norden.org ), the editor of the
Polar Law Textbook II, ( NCM, TemaNord,
Denmark: 2013), special editor of the
Yearbook of Polar Law, Vol. 2, 2010
(Leiden-Boston: Martinus Nijhoff
Publishers, the Netherlands
www.brill.nl/pola)
and guest editor of the Arctic Review on
Law and Politics, No. 2, 2012 (Gyldendal
Akademisk Publishers, Oslo, Norway
www.gyldendal.no/arcticreview).
Since 2012
she also has served as an Associate
editor of the Arctic Review on Law and
Politics.
Dr.
Loukacheva chairs an International
Thematic Network group on Legal Issues
in the Arctic of the Northern Research
Forum
www.nrf.is and the Arctic Governance
sub-group of the Arctic Law Thematic
Network of the University of the Arctic.
She is actively involved in numerous
Arctic and Polar law related activities
and projects, conducts legal and
multi-disciplinary research, field-work,
teaching, editing, reviewing, consulting
and organizing various Arctic related
events, and has been speaking/presenting
and advocating on Arctic and Polar law
related topics since 1996. She received
awards in Canada and internationally and
is the author of numerous publications
on legal and political issues in the
Arctic, Indigenous Peoples’ rights and
governance in the North.
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George
Macdonald
Lieutenant-General
(Retired) George Macdonald joined CFN
Consultants in 2005 after serving 38
years in the Canadian Forces,
culminating in the position of Vice
Chief of the Defence Staff from 2001 to
2004, following three years as the
Deputy Commander-in-Chief of NORAD.
As a Senior Partner with CFN, he
focuses on clients with an interest in
aerospace projects.
Initially, LGen
Macdonald spent several years as an
operational fighter pilot. He has
commanded at the squadron, base/wing,
and air division level. Throughout his
career, he held many leadership
positions in Ottawa, and has served with
NATO forces in Germany and Norway, and
with North American Aerospace Defence
Command (NORAD) in both Winnipeg and
Colorado Springs, Colorado. He also held
the position of Director of Operations
in the Foreign and Defence Policy
Secretariat in the Privy Council Office.
In addition to his
operational experience, LGen Macdonald
has extensive executive-level expertise
in military requirements and capability
planning, all aspects of defence program
management, corporate change management,
international security issues, and
Canada-U.S. relations. In his last
position as Vice Chief of the Defence
Staff, LGen Macdonald was the senior
resource manager for DND and was
responsible for strategic planning.
LGen Macdonald is
a graduate of the University of Calgary
and the National Defence College. He has
been published on several topics,
including change leadership,
interoperability, knowledge management,
ballistic missile defence, defence
strategic planning and resource
management, and CF operations in
Afghanistan. In
addition to being a Fellow with the
Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs
Institute, he is active as a board
member with the Conference of Defence
Associations Institute.
Keywords: Canada-US issues, NORAD,
ballistic missile defence, space issues,
military capabilities, DND capital
equipment spending, DND resource
management, DND budget, domestic and
continental security.
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Sarah Jane Meharg
Dr. Sarah Jane Meharg
is Adjunct Professor at the Royal
Military College of Canada and the
Senior Research Associate at the Pearson
Peacekeeping Centre in Ottawa Canada.
She is Canada’s leading post-conflict
reconstruction expert and specializes in
the research and implementation of
advanced technologies for reconstruction
initiatives. Dr Meharg focuses on
economic acceleration in regions
experiencing economic transitions,
including post-conflict and
post-disaster environments such as
Afghanistan, Haiti and the Balkans.
Dr Meharg has received numerous
commendations for developing her unique
theory of conflict–identicide
(1997)–which defines the precursor
stages of genocide. Dr. Meharg is
currently researching economic
acceleration; the environment of peace
operations; military geography; and
identicide/genocide.
Dr. Meharg serves as
a research fellow with organizations
such as the Centre for Security and
Defence Studies (CSDS) and the Canadian
Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
(CDFAI) and the Security and Defence
Forum (SDF). Dr Meharg is president of
Peace and Conflict Planners Canada Inc.,
a firm that specializes in economic and
cultural reconstruction and new-use
technology applications for conflict and
disaster affected environments. Clients
include both domestic and international
organizations and governments.
Dr Meharg develops
“futures” concepts for application in
her fields of study, and has a unique
specialization in connecting defence,
humanitarian, government, academic and
private sector interests. She has
written numerous chapters and articles,
including two recent books: Helping
Hands and Loaded Arms: Navigating the
Military and Humanitarian Space
(Canadian Peacekeepers Press: Cornwallis
N.S., 2007), and Measuring What
Matters in Peace Operations and Crisis
Management (McGill-Queen’s
University Press: Kingston, 2009).
Dr Meharg recently
collaborated with the Peacekeeping and
Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)
at the US Army War College in the
publication
“Security Sector Reform: A Case Study
Approach to Transition and Capacity
Building” (January 2010).
Keywords: Post-conflict
reconstruction, reconstruction and
stabilization operations, military
geography, identicide, genocide,
nation-building, contemporary armed
conflict, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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John Noble
John J. Noble graduated from Acadia
University in Wolfville, N.S. with a
B.A. (Honours Political Science) in
1966, and immediately joined the
Department of External Affairs where he
worked for 35 years in Ottawa and abroad
at Canadian missions in Dakar; Ankara;
London; Geneva. In Ottawa he served as
Official Spokesman and Director of the
Press Office; Director U.S. Relations
Division; Director General U.S.
Relations Bureau; the International
Security and Arms Control Bureau and the
International Organizations Bureau. He
was appointed Canadian Ambassador to
Greece in 1993; Minister Plenipotentiary
to France in 1994, and concurrently
Consul General of Canada to Monaco;
Ambassador to Switzerland and
Liechtenstein in 1998 and concurrently
as Permanent Observer of Canada to the
Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.
After retiring in July 2001 he was named
a Fulbright Scholar at Michigan State
University in 2002. From 2003 to 2005
served as Director of Research and
Communications at the Centre for Trade
Policy and Law at Carleton University.
He is a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs at Harvard
University; a Senior Distinguished
Fellow of the Norman Paterson School of
International Affairs at Carleton
University; a Senior Associate at the
Centre for Trade Policy and Law; and a
Fellow of the Centre for International
Governance Innovation. He has written
numerous articles on various aspects of
Canadian foreign policy and from 2007 to
2009 served as a Chief Federal
Negotiator and Minister’s Special
Representative for land claims in
British Colombia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba
and Nunavut. From 2006 to 2009 he served
as President of the Retired Heads of
Mission Association (RHOMA). From 2005
to 2012 he served on the Board of the
Conference of Defence Associations
Institute. He was elected president of
the National Capital Branch of the
Canadian International Council in June
2011 for a two year term. He was named a
Fellow of the Canadian Defence and
Foreign Affairs Institute in 2012.
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Joël
Plouffe
Joël Plouffe is a researcher at CIRRICQ
(Center for Interuniversity Research on
the International Relations of Canada
and Québec) at the École nationale
d’administration publique (ENAP) in
Montréal, managing editor of the
ArcticYearbook (www.arcticyearbook.com),
and is a U.S. State Department
International Visiting Program Alumnus
(IVLP Arctic Security). His research
interests include security and defense,
geopolitics of the Arctic, regions of
the circumpolar North, Northern Québec,
and U.S.-Canada relations and foreign
policy.
Mr Plouffe is involved in various
northern research groups and programs.
He is a member of the Northern Research
Forum’s Thematic Network on Geopolitics
and Security (www.nrf.is), led by Dr
Lassi Heininen from the University of
Lapland (Finland); is actively involved
in the annual Calotte Academy that takes
place in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region;
and is a project member of ArcticNet’s
group on Climate Change and Commercial
Shipping in the Arctic, led by Dr
Frédéric Lasserre of Université Laval in
Québec City (Canada). In August 2012,
Joël Plouffe was embedded with Canada’s
National Defense and Canadian Forces in
the Western Arctic (Northwest
Territories) during the annual
‘Operation Nanook’.
Mr Plouffe has conducted research in the
Arctic regions
of Russia, the US (Alaska), Norway
(Svalbard and mainland), Finland, Sweden
and Canada (Nunavik,
Northwest Territories). He has also
delivered addresses and lectures in many
international venues and was an invited
Arctic expert at the National Assembly
of France and the German Bundestag in
2010. That same year, he pursued oil and
gas research in Norway’s High North with
international experts from the
Bodø Graduate
School of Business and also addressed key ministers at the European Parliament on
non-Arctic state interests
and policies for the Arctic region. He
has also collaborated with the Canada
Institute at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars in
Washington DC on issue of Arctic
geopolitics.
In 2013, Mr Plouffe serverd as Visiting
Professor at the Jackson School for
International Studies (JSIS) at the
University of Washington in Seattle,
where he was co-teaching a Task Force on
Arctic Security. He was also Visiting
Scholar at NYU’s Center for Global
Affairs (CGA) in Spring 2013, as part of
the Polar Politics program led by Dr
Carolyn Kissane at the School of
Continuing Professional Studies
(NYU-SCPS). He was also Visiting Scholar
at Western Washington University in 2010
where he was invited to teach Québec
Politics and Contemporary Issues while
pursuing research at the
Canadian-American Studies Center.
Joël Plouffe was born in the mining town
of Sudbury in Northern Ontario, Canada,
and is now living in Montréal, Québec
where he is working on his PhD thesis at
UQAM, looking at how the Arctic has
influenced US foreign policy making from
the Nixon presidency to President Barack
Obama’s first mandate.
Keywords: Arctic Geopolitics and
Security, Circumpolar Affairs,
Barents/EU Arctic, Canada-US Relations
and Foreign
Policies, Globalization in the Arctic,
Northern Québec/Nunavik.
Twitter : @joelplouffe
Linkedin :
http://www.linkedin.com/in/joelplouffe
Facebook :
https://www.facebook.com/Arcticyearbook
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Stephen J. Randall
Stephen J. Randall, FRSC, (PhD Toronto
1972), is Professor of History at the
University of Calgary and Director of
the Latin American Research Centre,
which he founded in 2000. He is a member
of the Board of directors of the Alberta
Branch of the Canadian Council of the
Americas.. He served as Dean, Faculty of
Social Sciences (1994-2006) at the
University of Calgary and held previous
appointments at Toronto (1971-74)
and McGill (1974-1989).
He is an elected member of the
Royal Society of Canada, and a fellow
with the Canadian Defense and Foreign
Affairs Institute, and Centre for
Military and Strategic Studies.. He was
a Senior Fellow with the Canadian
International Council for 2009-2010
working on Canada and the Americas. He
was a member of the editorial board of
the Latin American Research Review
(2004-2009), and was co-editor of
International Journal of the
Canadian Institute for International
Affairs.
Randall began his work in Latin America
in 1967 when he taught at the National
University in Bogota. This began an
engagement with the country that has now
spanned well over 40 years.
He holds the National Order of Merit,
Grand Cross, from the Presidency of
Colombia (2000). In 2012 the Canadian
Council for the Americas awarded him its
Lifetime Public Service Award. Dr.
Randall has served with the United
Nations, Organization of American States
and Carter Center in international
election supervision in the Caribbean,
Latin America and Southeast Asia
(Nicaragua 1990 and 2006); El Salvador
(1991); Cambodia (1993); Venezuela 1993,
2004; Jamaica 1997).
He is the author, co-author, editor or
co-editor of a number of books,
including: The
Diplomacy of Modernization: The United
States and Colombia, 1920-1940 (1977);
United States Foreign Oil Policy (1984);
Hegemony and Interdependence:
Colombia and the United States (1992);
Ambivalent Allies: Canada and the United
States( 1994, 1996, 2002, 2008 with John
H. Thompson); Canada and Latin America
(1992, with Mark O. Dickerson);
Federalism and the New World Order
(1994, with Roger Gibbins); An
International History of the Caribbean
Basin(1998, with Graeme S. Mount); North
America Without Borders(1992, with
Herman Konrad); NAFTA in Transition(
1995, with Herman Konrad).
His most recent books are:
United States foreign oil policy since
World War I. (2005); the 4th
edition of Ambivalent Allies (2008);
the authorized biography of Alfonso
López Michelsen, President of Colombia
(1974-1978) by Villegas Editores in
Bogotá (2007).
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Hugh
Stephens
Mr. Stephens has more than 35 years of
government and business experience in
the Asia-Pacific region. Based in
Victoria, BC, Canada, he is currently
Executive-in-Residence at the Asia
Pacific Foundation of Canada and Vice
Chair of the Canadian Committee for
Pacific Economic Cooperation (CanCPEC).
After serving for a number of years as
Senior Vice President, Public Policy
(Asia Pacific), for Time Warner, where
he was based at the company’s Asia
regional headquarters in Hong Kong, Mr.
Stephens until recently continued to
serve Time Warner in an advisory
capacity as Senior Advisor on Public
Policy for Asia Pacific and Canada. Mr.
Stephens has extensive experience in
dealing with media and IT industry
issues (protection of intellectual
property, improved market access,
regulatory issues) in China, India, SE
Asia, Korea/Japan and elsewhere in Asia.
Mr. Stephens has been
an active leader in a number of regional
business organizations. Until recently
he served on the Executive Committee of
the Board of the US National Center for
APEC and is a past Executive Committee
Board member of the US-Korea Business
Council. He was a member of the Board of
Directors of the US-ASEAN Business
Council for a number of years.
He is also a past Governor of the
American Chamber of Commerce in Hong
Kong and Vice Chair of the Quality
Brands Protection Committee, a coalition
of more than 180 multinational companies
engaged in strengthening IPR protection
in China. He served two terms as a
Governor of the Cable and Satellite
Broadcasting Association of Asia.
In February 2012,
Mr. Stephens was appointed to a new
position as Executive-in-Residence at
the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada,
in Vancouver.
Executives in Residence are industry
leaders with experience and knowledge on
Asia who provide thought leadership
through research, events and activities
with the Foundation. He is also a Fellow
of the Canadian Defence and Foreign
Affairs Institute and Vice President of
the Victoria Branch of the Canadian
International Council.
Prior to entering the
corporate world with Time Warner in
2000, Mr. Stephens served for almost 30
years in the Canadian Foreign Service,
reaching the position of Assistant
Deputy Minister for Policy and
Communications in the Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(DFAIT) in Ottawa. He also served abroad
as Canadian Representative in Taiwan
(Director-General of the Canadian Trade
Office in Taipei), Counsellor and Charge
d’affaires at the Canadian Embassies in
Seoul, Korea and Islamabad, Pakistan,
among a number other overseas and
headquarters assignments, including
service at the Canadian Embassy in
Beijing and Mandarin language training
in Hong Kong.
 Mr.
Stephens was educated at UBC (BA-Hons),
University of Toronto (B.Ed) and Duke
University (MA), and has a Certificate
in Mandarin from the Chinese University
of Hong Kong.
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David
Curtis Wright
David Curtis Wright is Associate
Professor in the Department of History
and Senior Research Fellow of the Centre
for Military and Strategic Studies at
the University of Calgary, where he
specializes in imperial Chinese history
and the Mongol world empire. Dr.
Wright spent three formative years in
Taiwan, and after returning to North
America went on to graduate magna cum
laude with baccalaureate degrees
in History and Chinese language.
He earned his MA and PhD degrees in East
Asian Studies at Princeton University
and also spent one year learning
classical Mongolian language at Harvard.
He is the author of two books and
several articles on imperial China and
its relations with the "barbarians," or
northern nomadic peoples. His next
book will be on the Mongol conquest of
China in the late thirteenth century.
Keywords: Chinese History, Mongol
World Empire
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