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Senior Research Fellows

DAVID BERCUSON

David Bercuson was born in Montreal in August 1945. He attended Sir George Williams University, graduating in June 1966 with Honours in History and winning the Lieutenant-Governor's Silver Medal for the highest standing in history. After graduation he pursued graduate studies at the University of Toronto, earning an MA in history in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1971.

 

Dr. Bercuson has published in academic and popular publications on a wide range of topics specializing in modern Canadian politics, Canadian defence and foreign policy, and Canadian military history. He has written, coauthored, or edited over 30 popular and academic books and does regular commentary for television and radio. He has written for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Calgary Herald, the National Post and other newspapers.

 

In 1988, Bercuson was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and in May 1989, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at The University of Calgary. In 1997 he was appointed Special Advisor to the Minister of National Defence on the Future of the Canadian Forces. He was a member of the Minister of National Defence’s Monitoring Committee from 1997 to 2003. Since January 1997 he has been the Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. He is also the Director of Programs for the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, which is based in Calgary.

 

Dr. Bercuson’s newest book is The Fighting Canadians: Our Regimental History from New France to Afghanistan, published by HarperCollins.

 

Dr. Bercuson is Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the 41 Combat Engineer Regiment, a Land Force Reserve military engineer unit of the Canadian Forces.

 

Dr. Becuson served on the Advisory Council on National Security and is a member of the Board of Governors, RMC.

 

In 2002 Dr. Bercuson was awarded the J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. In 2003, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.

 

He recently became the recipient of the 2004 Vimy Award sponsored by the Conference of Defence Association Institute (CDAI) which recognizes Canadians who have made a significant and outstanding contribution to the defence and security of our nation and the preservation of our democratic values.

 

Keywords: Canadian defence policy, Canadian foreign policy, Canadian security policy, The Canadian forces, Canadian military history, Canada-US defence relations, Canada-NATO defence relations.

 

DEREK BURNEY

Derek H. Burney (69) is Senior Strategic Advisor to Ogilvy Renault LLP. He is Chairman of the Board of Canwest Global Communications Corp. and a Visiting Professor and Senior Distinguished Fellow at Carleton University. From October 2007 to February 2008, Mr. Burney served on the Independent Panel on Canada’s Future Role in Afghanistan. In September 2008, he was appointed as the Chair of the Selection Committee for the “Canada Excellence Research Chairs” programme of the Government of Canada.


Mr. Burney was born in Fort William (now Thunder Bay), Ontario, and was educated at Queen's University, where he received an Honours B.A. and M.A.


Mr. Burney headed the Transition team for Prime Minister Harper from January to March, 2006. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of CAE Inc. from October 1999 until August 2004. Prior to joining CAE, Mr. Burney was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bell Canada International Inc. (1993-1999).


From 1989-1993, Mr. Burney served as Canada’s Ambassador to the United States. This

assignment culminated a distinguished thirty-year career in the Canadian Foreign Service, during which he completed a variety of assignments at home and abroad.


From March 1987 to January 1989, Mr. Burney served as Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister. He was directly involved in the negotiation of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. He was the Prime Minister's personal representative (Sherpa) in the preparations for the Houston (1990), London (1991) and Munich (1992) G-7 Economic Summits.
 

In February 1992, Mr. Burney was awarded the Public Service of Canada's Outstanding

Achievement Award. In July 1993, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.


Mr. Burney was conferred Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Lakehead University, Queen's University, Wilfrid Laurier University and Carleton University.


His memoir of government service - Getting it Done - was published by McGill-Queen’s in 2005.
 

He is a Director of TransCanada Pipelines Limited and a Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute.


Mr. Burney is married to Joan (Peden) and has four sons.

Keywords: Canada-US relations.
 

JACK GRANATSTEIN

Jack Lawrence Granatstein was born in Toronto on 21 May 1939.  He attended Toronto public schools, Le Collège militaire royal de St-Jean (Grad. Dipl., 1959), the Royal Military College, Kingston (B.A., 1961), the University of Toronto (M.A., 1962), and Duke University (Ph.D., 1966). He served in the Canadian Army (1956-66), then joined the History Department at York University, Toronto (1966-95) where, after taking early retirement, he is Distinguished Research Professor of History Emeritus. Granatstein has also taught at the University of Western Ontario and the Royal Military College. He was the Rowell Jackman Fellow at the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (1996-2000) and was a member of the Royal Military College of Canada Board of Governors (1997-2005). From 1 July 1998 to 30 June 2000, he was the Director and CEO of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. He was then Special Adviser to the Director of the Museum (2000-01), a member of the Canadian War Museum Committee (2001-06), and chair of the Museum’s Advisory Council (2001-06). He is now a member of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Civilization (2006- ), a member of its Executive and Development Committees (2009- ), and is chair of the Board’s Canadian War Museum Advisory Committee (2007- ). The government re-appointed him to the Board of Trustees for a second three-year term.
 

Granatstein has been an Officer of the Order of Canada since 1996. He held the Canada Council's Killam senior fellowship twice (1982-84, 1991-93), was the editor of the Canadian Historical Review (1981-84), and was a founder of the Organization for the History of Canada which gave him its first National History Award in 2006. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1982 and in 1992 was awarded the Society’s J.B. Tyrrell Historical Gold Medal "for outstanding work in the history of Canada." His book, The Generals (1993), won the J.W. Dafoe Prize and the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography. Canada’s National History Society named him the winner of the Pierre Berton Award for popular history (2004), and the Canadian Authors Association gave him its Lela Common Award for Canadian History in 2006. In 2008, the Conference of Defence Associations awarded him its 75th Anniversary Book Prize as “the author deemed to have made the most significant positive contribution to the general public’s understanding of Canadian foreign policy, national security and defence during the past quarter century.”


He has honorary doctorates from Memorial University of Newfoundland (1993), the University of Calgary (1994), Ryerson Polytechnic University (1999), the University of Western Ontario (2000), McMaster University (2000), Niagara University (2004), and the Royal Military College of Canada (2007).  He is a senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto (2000- ). The Conference of Defence Associations Institute presented him the Vimy Award “for achievement and effort in the field of Canadian defence and security” (1996), and he was a Director of the CDAI and a member of its Executive Committee (2005-09). In 2007, he received the General Sir Arthur Currie Award from the Military Museums Society of Calgary, and he was named honorary historian of the Royal Canadian Military Institute.


In 1995 he served as one of three commissioners on the Special Commission on the Restructuring of the [Canadian Forces] Reserves (chaired by the Rt. Hon. Brian Dickson, former Chief Justice of Canada), and in 1997 he advised the Minister of National Defence on the future of the Canadian Forces.  He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Dominion Institute, is a national fellow of the University of Calgary’s Centre for Military and Strategic Studies (1997- ), is on the Research Advisory Board of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (2010- ), and was Chair of the Council for Canadian Security in the 21st Century (2001-5) for which he wrote a monthly column (2006-07). He is a Senior Research Fellow (2008- ) and was a Board of Directors member (2004-10) and Chair of the Advisory Council of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (2001-08). He writes a monthly newspaper column for CDFAI (2008- ). 


Granatstein writes on 20th Century Canadian national history--the military, defence and foreign policy, Canadian-American relations, the public service, and politics.  He comments regularly on historical questions, defence, and public affairs in the press and on radio and television; he provided the historical commentary for CBC-TV's coverage of the 50th, 60th,  and 65th anniversaries of D-Day (1994, 2004, 2009), V-E Day (1995, 2005), V-J Day (1995), and the 90th anniversary of Vimy Ridge (2007); and he speaks frequently here and abroad. He has been a historical consultant on many films, including “Canada’s War” (Yap Films, 2004), and he wrote for the National Film Board’s projects to put Canadian Great and Second World War film footage on-line. He wrote a regular book review column for Legion magazine (2006-09) and for On Track (2006-08), and he was the historical consultant for the Ontario Veterans Memorial (2005-06) and the Gardiner Museum’s Battle of Britain exhibit (2006).       


Granatstein’s many scholarly and popular books include The Politics of Survival: The Conservative Party of Canada 1939-45 (1967, 1970), Peacekeeping: International Challenge and Canadian Response (1968), Canadian Foreign Policy Since 1945 (1969, 1970, 1973), Forum: Canadian Life and Letters 1920-1970 (1972), Canada's War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939-45 (1975, 1990), Ties that Bind: Canadian-American Relations in Wartime (1975), Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada (1977, 1985), American Dollars/Canadian Prosperity (1978), A Man of Influence: Norman Robertson and Canadian Statecraft (1981), The Gouzenko Transcripts (1982), The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins, 1935-57 (1982, 1998), Twentieth Century Canada (1983, 1986, 1989),  Bloody Victory: Canadians and the D-Day Campaign (1984, 1994), The Great Brain Robbery: Canada's Universities on the Road to Ruin (1984), Sacred Trust: Brian Mulroney and the Conservative Party in Power (1985),  Canada 1957-1967: The Years of Uncertainty and Innovation (1986), The Collins Dictionary of Canadian History (1986), How Britain's Weakness Forced Canada into the Arms of the United States (1989),  Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War (1989), A Nation Forged in Fire: Canadians and the Second World War (1989), Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy (1990,1991) Spy Wars: Canada and Espionage from Gouzenko to Glasnost (1990, 1992), Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese in World War II (1990; Japanese ed., 1994), For Better or For Worse: Canada and the United States to the 1990s (1991, 1992, 2007), War and  Peacekeeping: From South Africa to the Gulf--Canada's Limited Wars (1991),  English Canada Speaks Out (1991), Dictionary of Canadian Military History (1992, 1994), The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War (1993, 1995, 2005), Empire to Umpire: Canadian Foreign Policy to the 1990s (1994; rev. ed., 2007), Victory 1945: Canadians from War to Peace (1995),  The Good Fight: Canadians and World War II (1995), Yankee Go Home? Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1996, 1997), Petrified Campus: Canada’s Universities in Crisis (1997, 1998), The Canadian 100: The Hundred Most Influential Canadians of the Twentieth Century (1997, 1998),  The Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada (1998, 1999), Who Killed Canadian History? (1998, 1999, rev. ed., 2007),  Trudeau’s Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Pierre Trudeau (1998, 1999), Prime Ministers: Rating the Prime Ministers (1999, 2000), Our Century: The Canadian Journey (2000, 2001), Canada’s Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace (2002, 2004), First Drafts: Eyewitness Accounts from Canada’s Past (2003, 2004), Canada and the Two World Wars (2003), The Importance of Being Less Earnest: Promoting Canada’s National Interests through Tighter Ties with the U.S. (2003), Who Killed the Canadian Military? (2004; paper ed., 2004, 2008), Hell’s Corner: An Illustrated History of Canada’s Great War (2004), Battle Lines: First Person Military Accounts from Our Past (2004), The Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada in the Second World War, 1939-1945 (2005),
The Special Commission on the Restructuring of  the Reserves, 1995: Ten Years Later (2005), The Land Newly Found: Eyewitness  Accounts of the Canadian Immigration Experience (2006),  Whose War Is It? How Canada Can Survive in the Post-9/11 World (2007, 2008), and A Threatened Future: Canada’s Future Strategic Environment and Its Security Implications (2007). He is now preparing (with Dean Oliver) The Companion to Canadian Military History (Oxford University Press/Canadian War Museum, 2010).

Granatstein is married and lives in Toronto.

 

FRANK HARVEY

Frank P. Harvey was recently appointed University Research Professor of International Relations, Dalhousie University. He held the 2007 J. William Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies (SUNY, Plattsburgh), is a Senior Research Fellow with the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, and was former Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie. His books include The Homeland Security Dilemma: Fear, Failure and Future of American Insecurity (2008, Routledge), Smoke and Mirrors: Globalized Terrorism and the Illusion of Multilateral Security (University of Toronto Press, 2004) – Runner-up 2004-05 Donner Book Prize, and finalist 2005-2006 Harold Adam Innis book prize. His other books include Millennium Reflections on International Studies (co-edited with Michael Brecher, University of Michigan Press, 2002); Using Force to Prevent Ethnic Violence: An Evaluation of Theory and Evidence (with David Carment, Praeger, 2001); Conflict in World Politics: Advances in the Study of Crisis, War and Peace (co-edited with Ben Mor, Macmillan Press 1998); The Future’s Back: Nuclear Rivalry, Deterrence Theory and Crisis Stability After The Cold War (McGill-Queen’s, 1997).

 

He has published widely on post-9/11 security, the Iraq war, American foreign and security policy, nuclear and conventional deterrence, coercive diplomacy, proliferation, crisis decision-making, protracted ethnic conflict and national missile defence in International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Politics, International Journal, International Negotiation, Security Studies, International Political Science Review, Canadian Journal of Political Science, and Conflict Management and Peace Science (among others). His commentaries have appeared in the Globe and Mail and National Post. Professor Harvey received Dalhousie's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998 and the Burgess Research Award in 2000. He was a NATO Research Fellow from 1998-2000 and has received grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Department of National Defence and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He is the co-author of "To Secure a Nation: Canadian Defence and Security in the 21st Century: The Case for a New Defence White Paper" (prepared with Jim Fergusson and Rob Huebert for the Council for Canadian Security). 

Keywords: Globalization and terrorism, unilateral vs. multilateral approaches to security, comparative multilateralism, WMD proliferation, US & Canadian foreign, security and defence policy, homeland and continental security, ballistic missile defence, nuclear and conventional deterrence, NATO military strategy and third-party intervention, peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention.
 

MIKE JEFFERY

Mike Jeffery has over 39 years service in the Canadian Forces. He started military service as a Rifleman in the Essex and Kent Scottish, but soon joined the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery under the Canadian Army Soldier Apprentice Programme. After his commissioning in 1967, he served in a variety of command and staff positions both in Canada and overseas. These included Commanding Officer of Third Regiment Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, Canadian Contingent Commander to the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) in Namibia, Commandant of the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College and Commander of the lst Canadian Division. He served as Chief of the Land Staff from August 2000 to May 2003. He retired from the CF, in the rank of Lieutenant General, on 1 August 2003.

Mike is a graduate of the Long Gunnery Staff Course (Field and Locating) (UK), the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College, The US Army Command and General Staff College and the National Defence College. In 2000, he was promoted in the Order of Military Merit to the grade of Commander. In 2004 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the Royal Military College.

Mike runs his own consulting business, focusing on defence, security and strategic planning. He is also the Honorary Campaign Chairman for the Royal Canadian Artillery Heritage Campaign.

Keywords: Strategic planning, change management, Canadian defence policy, Canadian forces/army, defence management, Canadian-US security relations.
 

DAVID PRATT

The Honourable David Pratt, P.C. is currently working as a consultant. From 2004-2008, he served as Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the Canadian Red Cross where his focus was on issues related to international humanitarian law, the control of small arms and light weapons and government relations. He also led the Canadian Red Cross “Auxiliary to Government” project which promoted a new relationship with governments at all levels.  

Mr. Pratt served as an elected representative at the municipal, regional and federal levels for 16 years. He was first elected to the House of Commons for Nepean-Carleton in 1997. He was Chair of the Standing Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs – a position he held from 2001 to 2003. He also chaired the first Liberal Caucus Committee on Foreign Affairs, National Defence and International Cooperation and served as a member of the Justice Committee’s Sub-Committee on National Security. Mr. Pratt was Canada’s 36th Minister of National Defence.

As Canada’s Special Envoy to Sierra Leone under two foreign affairs ministers, Mr. Pratt was involved extensively in promoting more Canadian assistance to the war torn country as well as legislation to address the “conflict diamonds” issue.

Keywords: Conflict prevention, small arms and light weapons control, international humanitarian law, war-affected children, security sector reform.
 

COLIN ROBERTSON

Colin Robertson is Senior Strategic Advisor for the US-based law firm of McKenna, Long and Aldridge. He writes on international affairs and is a frequent contributor and commentator on CTV, CBC and CPAC.  
 

He is current President of the Canadian International Council’s National Capital Branch. Mr. Robertson sits on the board of  the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, Canada World Youth and  he is honorary chair of the Canada Arizona Business Council. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.
 

A career foreign service officer from 1977-2010, Colin Robertson served as first Head of the Advocacy Secretary at the Canadian Embassy in Washington and Consul General in Los Angeles, with previous assignments in Hong Kong and in New York at the UN and Consulate General. In his final assignment he directed a project on Canada-US Engagement at Carleton University’s Centre for Trade Policy and Law with private and public sector support. A member of the team that negotiated the Canada-US FTA and NAFTA, he is co-author of Decision at Midnight: The Inside Story of the Canada-US FTA.
 

He is a former President of the Historica Foundation. He was editor of bout de papier: Canada’s Journal of Foreign Service and Diplomacy and President of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers.  He has taught at Carleton University and the Canadian School of Public Service.
 

He indicates that his smartest decision was marrying his wife Maureen Boyd, a Vancouverite, former journalist and author. They have three children, Allison, Sean and Conor. Robertson reads voraciously, runs slowly, swims, cycles, and cross-country skis.   

Hugh Segal

Upon graduation in 1972 from the University of Ottawa with a degree in Canadian history, Hugh Segal served in the public and private sector for thirty-three years before being appointed by Prime Minister Martin to the Senate, as a Conservative, in 2005. In the private sector, he served as Director of Corporate and Investor Relations at John Labatt, Executive Chair of the Tact group of companies (advertising, broadcasting and public affairs), Senior Associate at the Bay Street portfolio management firm of Gluskin Sheff and Associates and President of the Institute for Research on Public Policy. In the public sector, he served as Legislative Secretary to the federal leader of the opposition in Ottawa, to the Premier of Ontario, Associate Secretary of the Ontario Cabinet for Federal provincial relations and Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister.

His involvement with defence began in 1971, when, as a researcher, he co-authored the Blue Paper on National Defence for the Tory Research office in Ottawa. He is a former Chair of the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies, former Fellow at the Centre for Defence Management at Queen’s, and former Vice Chair (research) of the Canadian International Council. For over twenty years he has lectured in the National Security Course and Flag Officers’ course at the Canadian Forces Staff College in Toronto on a pro-bono basis. A senior fellow at the Queen’s School of Policy Studies, Hugh is also an adjunct professor (public policy) at the Queen’s school of business. He has written over fifty articles on defence and security matters, and edited the IRPP monograph entitled “Geopolitical Integrity” (IRPP, Toronto 2004) on defence policy challenges for Canada. He is an honorary captain in the Canadian Navy, holds Honorary Doctorates from the Royal Military College and the University of Ottawa an is a former Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade. A Honorary Commanding Officer of the Fort Henry Guard in Kingston, Hugh was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2003. He sits on various for profit and charitable boards and councils including the International Institute for Strategic Studies in the UK and the Institute for Democratic and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in Stockholm.

 

ELINOR SLOAN

Elinor Sloan is Associate Professor of international relations in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, and is a former defence analyst with Canada's Department of National Defence. Dr. Sloan received her B.A. (Hons Political and Economic Science) from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1988, her M.A. (International Affairs) from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa, in 1989, her M.A. (Law and Diplomacy) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Boston, in 1995, and her PhD (International Relations) from the Fletcher School in 1997.

Dr. Sloan's research interests include Canadian and US military capabilities and defence policy, the Arctic, homeland defence, ballistic missile defence, NATO and peacekeeping. She is the author of five books, most recently Military Transformation and Modern Conflict (Praeger Publishers, 2008) and Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2nd edition, 2010).

Keywords:
Canadian defence policy, Canadian Forces, US defence policy, homeland defence, ballistic missile defence, defence transformation, NATO, NORAD.
 

GORDON SMITH

Gordon Smith is the Director of the Centre for Global Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria. Dr. Smith arrived at the University of Victoria in 1997 following a distinguished career with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, which included posts as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994-1997, Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels from 1991-1994, and Ambassador to the Canadian Delegation to NATO, from 1985-1990. He is the author (with Moisés Naím) of Altered States: Globalization, Sovereignty, and Governance (Ottawa: IDRC, 2000), and co-editor (with Daniel Wolfish) of Who is Afraid of the State? Canada in a World of Multiple Centres of Power (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001), as well as numerous book chapters and articles. Since 1997, Dr. Smith has served as Chairman of Canada’s International Development Research Centre. He currently holds positions as Executive Director of the Canadian Institute for Climate Studies, and Board Director of the International Forum de Montréal. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from M.I.T.

Keywords:
Globalization, governance, security, foreign policy.


 

DENIS STAIRS

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 a member of the Board of Directors of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, he specializes in Canadian foreign and defence policy, Canada-US Relations and similar subjects.

 

Keywords: Canadian foreign and defence policy, Canadian-US relations
 

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