People
Staff
| David Black, Acting Director |
| Mirriam Mensah, Deputy Director |
| Mary Okwese, Administrative Secretary |
Executive Committee |
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| Peter Arthur Political Science |
Capacity development, good governance, and socioeconomic development in Africa |
| David Black Political Science |
Human rights in the foreign policies of South Africa and Canada, Canadian policy towards Africa, and sport and world politics |
| Brian Bow Political Science |
Security policy coordination, regional cooperation, North America, and Canada-US relations |
| John Cameron International Development Studies |
Development theory, indigenous local government in Latin America, and rural development in Latin America |
| Leah Sarson Political Science |
Canadian foreign policy, feminist theory and research methods, and global indigenous politics |
| Shelly Whitman Dallaire Institute |
Child soldiers, peace, human security, development, and international institutions |
| Ruben Zaiotti Political Science/JMEUCE |
International security, border control, immigration policy, European Union foreign policy, and transatlantic relations |
Faculty Fellows |
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| Jennifer Baechler Rowe School of Business |
Security-development nexus, civil-military coordination, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction, organizational design and culture |
| Kiran Banerjee Political Science |
Migration, Refugees, Citizenship, History of Political Thought, International Ethics, International Relations, Political Theory |
| Aldo Chircop Law, Marine Affairs |
Ocean policy and law, Arctic shipping, and maritime law |
| Margaret Denike Political Science, GWST |
Human rights |
| Robert G. Finbow Political Science |
Political economy, trade and social policy, Canada-EU Trade Agreement, regional politics in Canada |
| Anders Hayden Political Science |
Politics of climate change, critical perspectives on economic growth, alternative economic indicators |
| Marion Laurence Political Science |
International Relations, Global Security Governance, International OrganizationsQualitative and Interpretive Research Methods, |
| Jennifer Llewellyn Law |
Restorative justice, human rights, international law, and feminist legal theory |
| Matthew Schnurr International Development Studies |
Agricultural biotechnology in Africa, environmental security and conflict, and histories of development |
| Heather Tasker Political Science |
Gender Violence, Transitional Justice, International Criminal Law, Human Rights |
Research Fellows |
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| Nafisa Abdulhamid Research Network on Women, Peace and Security (RN-WPS) |
Humanitarian intervention, Salafi-jihadist organizations in the Middle East and North Africa, gender and development, approaches to development in the Global South. |
| Erin Baines University of British Columbia |
Transitional justice, humanitarianism and forced displacement, gender and armed conflict |
| Gabrielle Bardall Herizon Democracy |
International elections and democracy assistance, conflict and election violence, women's political participation, technology and disinformation, hybrid regimes and electoral systems |
| David Beitelman | US-China relations, IR theory (esp. trust), Canadian and US foreign and defence policies. |
| Jean-Christophe Boucher University of Calgary |
Canadian foreign and defence policy, media and public opinion, conflict analysis |
| Timothy Hiu-Tung Choi University of Calgary |
Seapower, Maritime Strategy, Strategic Theory, Maritime Security, Naval History, UNCLOS, Scandinavia, Mine Warfare, Shipbuilding, Nordic |
| Sean Clark Hearne Group |
Political economy of international security, rise and fall of great powers, history, political leadership |
| Marc Doucet St. Mary's University |
Critical security studies, governmentality, contemporary international interventions, peacekeeping reform, protection of civilians |
| Maya Eichler Mount Saint Vincent University |
Gender and armed forces, veterans, foreign and defence policy, community-engaged research on war |
| Aaron Ettinger University of Waterloo |
IR theory, neoliberalism, military privatization |
| J. Andrew Grant Queen's University |
African security, conflict and cooperation in natural resource sectors, non-state armed groups, and post-conflict reconstruction |
| Steven Holloway StFX (ret'd) |
Canadian foreign policy, international organizations |
| Sabrina Hoque |
International development, international organizations, governance |
| Robert Huebert University of Calgary |
Canadian defence and foreign policy, circumpolar relations, and ocean governance |
| Kristi Kenyon University of Winnipeg |
Human rights, civil society, health, sub-Saharan Africa, development |
| Adam Lajeunesse StFX |
Arctic history, policy, and security issues |
| Jamie Levin StFX |
International relations theory, peacekeeping, disarmament, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
International Relations theory, Security and Strategic studies, Canadian Defence and Foreign Policy, Military Regimes and Tutelary Governance systems |
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| George MacLean University of New Brunswick |
Canadian foreign policy, human security, non-proliferation initiatives, and multilateralism |
| John Mitton | International security, international rivalry, civil conflict, foreign policy and coercive diplomacy |
| Can E. Mutlu Acadia University |
Border Security; Technology, Architecture and Design; Immigration, Refugee, and Asylum Policies in Europe and the Middle East, Research Methods in Critical Security Studies. |
| David Perry Canadian Global Affairs Institute |
Canadian defence policy, defence procurement and finance |
| Heather Smith University of Northern British Columbia |
Canadian foreign policy, creative pedagogy, feminist research, indigenous issues |
| Leigh Spanner St. Mary's University |
Feminist approaches to national security, the military, and veteran life in Canada, feminist political economy, IR in everyday life |
| Carla Suarez Banting Fellow, CCDP |
Civilian agency during and after armed conflict, critical theory, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America |
| Larry Swatuk University of Waterloo |
Africa, environmental and natural resource governance, esp. water resources |
| Susan Thomson Colgate University |
State-society relations in Africa, esp. in post-conflict countries, Kenya, Rwanda |
| Roger Thompson Kyung Hee University (Retired) |
U.S. Navy, naval bureaucratic politics, military incompetence, military sociology, civic education, ethics, corruption in the Military Industrial Complex |
| Rebecca Tiessen University of Ottawa |
Experiential learning, Canada's promotion of women's rights and gender equality abroad |
| Brian Tomlinson CCIC (ret'd) |
Official development assistance, civil society organizations in development cooperation |
| Regional organizations, African development issues, natural resource governance, African regional security, peace & conflict and sanctions | |
| Alex Wilner NPSIA |
Deterrence theory, terrorism and counterterrorism, intelligence studies, national security policy, strategic foresight |
Doctoral Fellows |
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| Global market volatility and political decision-making | |
| Ally Chandler | |
| Grant Curtis |
Development theory, the security-development nexus, fragile/failed states, peacebuilding, institutional development, civil society |
| Andrea Lane | Maritime security, civil-military relations, defence policy and procurement |
| Mirriam Mensah | |