Black, David R. ^{Cluster Member}

David Black's is the Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University. His current research interests focus on Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa, with emphases on human security, development assistance, multilateral diplomacy and extractive industry investment. Dr. Black's research and publications have also addressed comparative western policies toward Africa, the foreign policy of post-apartheid South Africa, and Sport and World Politics.
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Blais, André ^{Cluster Member}

André Blais is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a research fellow with the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ), and the Center for Interuniversity Research Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO). Dr. Blais is also past president of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA). His research interests include: elections, electoral systems, voter turnout, public opinion, and methodology.
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Bowles, Paul ^{Cluster Member}

Paul Bowles is Past-President of the Canadian Society for the Study of International Development and is also a Honourary Professor at Hebei University, China, and an Adjunct Professor of the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. He specializes in Globalization, Regionalism, Economic Growth and Development in the Asia-Pacific region, and is also interested in the History of Economic Thought, Currency Issues, and China's Political Economy. Currently he is researching China's exchange rate and currency policies. Media Experience: Dr. Bowles has participated in media outreach in Canada and Australia.
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Brunet-Jailly, Emmanuel ^{Cluster Member}

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly is Associate Professor in the University of Victoria’s School of Public Administration and is Co-Director of the Local Government Institute. Currently, his research focuses on: Comparative Decentralization, Horizontal and Vertical Governance, Theorization of Cross-border Regions, Comparative Urban Governance, Governance of Cross-border Regions, Comparative Decentralization, Horizontal and Vertical Governance, and Theorization of Cross-border Regions. Media Experience: Dr. Brunet-Jailly has outreach experience in Radio and welcomes requests from TV, Radio and Print media.
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Carens, Joseph ^{Cluster Member}

Joseph H. Carens’ research focuses on contemporary political theory, particularly on questions about multiculturalism and immigration. He is the author of over 60 articles or book chapters focusing primarily on issues relating to immigration and multiculturalism. Currently, Dr. Carens is writing a book on the ethics of immigration. Media Experience: Dr. Carens has acquired a great deal of media experience appearing on the CBC Radio program “Ideas,” and he has also participated in a number of interviews in print media.
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Cross, William ^{Cluster Member}

William Cross is the Honourary Dick and Ruth Bell Chair for the Study of Canadian Parliamentary Democracy in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. He is interested in questions relating political party democracy and the connections between political parties and civil society. His work has examined party leadership selection, candidate recruitment and selection, party financing, policy development and election campaigning. Dr. Cross has also studied the effects of electoral systems and electoral system reform. 
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Davis, Jerome ^{Cluster Member}

Jerome Davis holds the Canada Research Chair in Oil and Natural Gas Policy at the Dalhousie Arts and Social Sciences Faculty. His current projects and areas of research focus on: a Canadian Foundation for Innovation financed study on the nature of change within the oil industry and its short and long range significance for Canada; studying newer forms of offshore project management (such as the British CRINE and the Norwegian NORSOK) and the implications these forms pose for offshore contractors and for national regulatory authorities; as well as studying the problems of regulatory coordination in the Danish context (Denmark and Greenland, Denmark and the Faeroe Islands) and will be engaged in investigating similar problems occurring in Canada (the Atlantic Accords).
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DeBardeleben, Joan ^{Cluster Member}

Joan DeBardeleben is Director of the Centre for European Studies, is Director of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and is Co-Director of the East-West Project. She is the author of several books and articles dealing with Russian and East European politics, particularly relating to democratisation, public opinion and elections, labour relations, and environmental issues. In recent years, Dr. DeBardeleben  has also turned her attention to the European Union, particularly to questions of multi-level governance in the EU and to the EU's relations with its eastern neighbours. Her current research projects deal with the EU-Russian interface at the regional level and the political significance of recent changes in Russian federalism. Media Experience: Dr. DeBardeleben has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries
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Dutkiewicz, Piotr ^{Cluster Member}

Piotr Dutkiewicz is former Director of Carlton University's Institute of European and Russian Studies. He is also a Permanent Fellow of the Centre for Civilizational Studies in the Russian Academy of Science. Dr. Dutkiewicz has directed four large-scale CIDA projects in Russia and his areas of expertise include: Russia (Politics and Social Protection, Regionalism) Eastern and Central Europe, Regional Development, Political History of Eastern Europe, Postcommunism, and Women in Labour Market in Russia. Dr. Dutkiewicz participated in the Valdai Club of 40 renowned experts for high-level discussions in Russia culminating in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Gallagher, Stephen ^{Cluster Member}

Stephen Gallagher is the Program Chair of the Canadian International Council's Montreal Branch. His areas of research interest include: Canadian Refugee Policy, Comparative Asylum Policy, and Comparative Migration Policy. Dr. Gallagher studies comparative asylum policy and specifically, Canada's extended refugee policy system and the emerging ‘Common European Asylum System'. These policy areas are analyzed from a migration management perspective. A core theme is that international migratory flows have profound implications for state sovereignty, national security and national identity in Canada and the European Union.
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Gehring, Markus ^{Cluster Member}

Dr. Markus W. Gehring is Lead Counsel for Trade, Investment and Competition Law with the Centre of International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL). Dr Gehring has published on various aspects of trade and European and climate change law. His other legal research interests focus on the constitutional dimensions of European and international trade law, and sustainable development law at the intersection of international economic, environmental and social development law. Media Experience: Dr. Gehring has media outreach experience and invites media requests for commentary.
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Haglund, David ^{Cluster Member}

David Haglund currently has two projects underway: 1) a book on France-US security relations; and 2) a research project on demographic change and the North American security community.
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Hallstrom, Lars ^{Cluster Member}

Lars Hallstrom’s is Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Governance at St. Francis Xavier University. His research has traditionally focused upon environmental policy making in European and federal systems of governance and is now increasingly concerned with the political and policy implications of linking health, social,and ecological systems.
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Hansen, Randall ^{Cluster Member}

Professor Randall Hansen's research interests include public policy and history. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Immigration & Governance, and has published widely on immigration, citizenship and multiculturalism. He also publishes on military and political history, including the history and morality of strategic bombing. His most recent book is Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany (Doubleday, 2008): www.fireandfury.info.
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Huebner, Kurt ^{Cluster Member}

Kurt Huebner is Chair for German and European Studies and Director of the Institute for European Studies, at the University of British Columbia. His research includes global and European currency regimes, international regimes of foreign direct investment, and the relations between innovation and sustainability. His latest research focuses on the economic and socio-political foundations of technical innovations in a transatlantic perspective, and the ongoing processes of currency competition and currency cooperation (Euro-Dollar-Yuan). Currently, Dr. Huebner is directing a project on EU-Canada as Global Economic Policy Actor, and recently he was part of a consortium on EU-North America-Asia relations.
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Hurrelmann, Achim ^{Cluster Member}

Achim Hurrelmann is coordinator of the Research Node on ‘Social Integration and Citizenship’ at Carleton University’s Center for European Studies. Currently, his research focuses on questions of democracy and legitimacy in the European system of multilevel governance. Dr. Hurrelmann has expertise in fields including: Development and transformation of the modern Western state, EU core policies, EU democratic processes, EU institutions, EU social structures, EU treaty development, German politics, Identities in the EU population, and Legitimacy of the nation state and international governance arrangements.
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Jegen, Maya ^{Cluster Member}

Maya Jegen is Director of Graduate Studies at the Université de Québec à Montréal. Her main areas of research include: the politics of energy, the politics of the environment, public policy and governance, sustainable development, and social and cultural determinants of environmental protection. Currently, she leads two energy-related projects: one focuses on energy security in the European Union (with funding received from SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council)) and the other concerns the social acceptance of wind energy projects in Quebec ( funded by the FQRSC (Fonds québécois de recherches sur la société et la culture)).
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Kopstein, Jeffrey S. ^{Cluster Member}

Jeffrey Kopstein's primary research interests are in the fields of international and European politics.  He has written extensively on transatlantic relations and on ethnic conflict in democratizing and democratic societies.
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Kuus, Merje ^{Cluster Member}

Merje Kuus' research focuses on political geography and geopolitics--particularly on policy-making processes in complex bureaucratic structures. In broad terms, it investigates how political practices are underpinned by spatially defined categories like center and margin, inside and outside, Self and Other. These categories are central to the processes by which complex political issues come to be defined and managed in a particular manner. Within that problematic, Dr. Kuus' interests converge on the question of how specifically spatial categories function in daily politics at various sites-for example, within foreign policy bureaucracies. By virtue of her ‘regional' expertise, Dr. Kuus is also keenly interested in the ways in which places and regions are ‘written onto' our mental maps on a daily basis.
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Leblond, Patrick ^{Cluster Member}

Owing to his training and experience in business, economics and international relations, Patrick Leblond’s expertise concerns questions relating to global economic governance and international and comparative political economy, more specifically those that deal with international finance and money, international economic integration as well as business-government relations. His regional expertise focuses on Europe and North America.
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Maas, Willem ^{Cluster Member}

Willem Maas holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration at York University and is executive member of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and of the Centre for Public Policy and Law, and is also member of the Centre for Refugee Studies. Currently, his areas of interest relate to: researching theoretical and empirical questions on citizenship, integration policies, the limits of tolerance and multiculturalism, and the intersection of migration and law.  In 2007, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. published his book Creating European Citizens. The book suggests that integration has always been about much more than economics, and that free movement of persons is central to integration, and that the political project of transcending borders and building a European community of people has implications for the global rise of rights.
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Macleod, Alex ^{Cluster Member}

Alex Macleod is working on the evolution of realist IR theory since the end of the Cold War. He has also been writing recently on American neoconservatism as IR theory. Dr. Macleod's other major research project concerns how popular culture, especially TV and film, shapes and directs popular conceptions of security and international relations, particularly in the United States, both during the Cold War and since.
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MacRae, Heather ^{Cluster Member}

Heather MacRae's research interests include Europeanization, the politics of the EU, gender regimes and German politics. Dr. MacRae has completed research on the interaction of various policy and institutional levels in re-shaping the German gender regime. Currently  her research is investigating the gendered implications of transportation policies in the European Union. Media Experience: Dr. MacRae accepts inquiries from media working in TV, Radio and Print formats.
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Mahon, Rianne ^{Cluster Member}

Rianne Mahon’s earlier work focused on unions and labour market restructuring in Canada and Sweden. Over the past decade she has produced numerous articles and book chapters on the politics of childcare at multiple scales. Dr. Mahon's current SSHRC funded research project looks at policy learning in a multi-scalar world: Canada, Korea, Sweden and the OECD’s reconciliation agenda ($87,034). As part of this project, she is working with Australian, British and Swedish colleagues on care in a globalizing world from a multi-scalar perspective.
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Marier, Patrik ^{Cluster Member}

Patrik Marier’s research focuses broadly on the impact of changing demographic structures on reforms to the welfare state in comparative contexts. His earlier work examined the politics of pension reform in a number of countries including Sweden, Canada, Mexico and the United States. Dr. Marier’s current research looks more broadly at the impact of aging populations on a number of public policy fields including education, health care, and labour policy across comparative cases. With Dolores Pushkar (Department of Psychology, Concordia), Dr. Marier has facilitated the organization of the Concordia Ageing Research Network which has brought a number of Concordia scholars together to examine the comparative impact of ageing from a multidisciplinary perspective. Media Experience: Dr. Marier has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries.
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Merand, Frédéric ^{Cluster Member}

Frédéric Mérand is Professor of Political Science at the University of Montréal and responsable for the transatlantic relations programme at the McGill University-University of Montréal Institute of European Studies. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a policy advisor in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and a Research Fellow at the San Diego-based Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He currently sits on the board of the European Community Studies Association - Canada. He is currently Campus Director of the Research Group on International Security. Mérand has published on the European Security and Defence Policy, EU-NATO relations, transatlantic relations, Canadian foreign policy, and the sociology of international relations. His current research, funded by SSHRC, deals with European defence policy networks in Europe. Media Experience: Dr. Merand has a great deal of experience responding to TV, R ...
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O’Brien, Martha ^{Cluster Member}

Martha O’Brien’s primary research looks at European Union law and international taxation, including tax treaties, EU fundamental freedoms, and tax harmonization within the EU. Dr. O'Brien also works on aspects of EU-Canada trade, including: direct investment, trade in services, the free movement of capital, inter-provincial trade in Canada, and comparative federalism.
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Pammett, Jon ^{Cluster Member}

Jon Pammett has worked on voting behaviour in Canada, Russia, and various European countries. His primary interest is the declining voter turnout with a specific focus on the linkages between voter turnout and other forms of participation. Dr. Pammett is also particularly interested in research on young people and voting. His current project involves voting in countries with multiple, frequent, elections. Media Experience: Dr. Pammett has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries.
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Paterson, Matthew ^{Cluster Member}

Matthew Paterson’s research looks into the relationship between the global economy and global environmental change. He has focused on climate change politics for 20 years, in particular looking at the international climate negotiations, the role of insurance companies in climate politics, and most recently at carbon markets as a means of responding to climate change. In the context of the Strategic cluster, Dr. Paterson is particularly interested in the lessons that Canada can learn from the European experience of carbon markets. Dr. Paterson is currently co-writing a book with Peter Newell (University of East Anglia, UK) provisionally entitled Climate Capitalism, as well as a series of articles on the political economy of climate change governance, especially its “market-led” character.
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Petit, Isabelle ^{Cluster Member}

Isabelle Petit is the Executive Director of the McGill University- Université de Montréal European Union Centre of Excellence. Her research interests include: European integration, Comparative politics, International relations, and public law (constitutional, international and administrative). Currently, she is engaged in research projects which focus on the following topics: the creation of a Euro-identity, the development of a European dimension in EU member states' education systems, the thoughts and ideas of the founders of Europe, and the EU institutional architecture and the federal model. Media Experience: Dr. Petit has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries.  
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Ross, George ^{Cluster Member}

George Ross is ad personam Jean Monnet Chair at the Université de Montréal, iserves as Morris Hillquit Professor emeritus at Brandeis University, and is a faculty associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. His research interests include the political economy of the European Union, EU elites and institutions, European politics and industrial relations, globalization, and social structures. He recently co-edited What`s Left of the Left, a book on European elites and the crisis of European integration, published by Duke University Press in 2009. Media Experience: Dr. Ross has a great deal of international media experience in TV, Radio and Print formats.
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Rothmayr-Allison, Christine ^{Cluster Member}

Christine Rothmayr-Allison's fields of specialization are comparative public policy (North-America and Europe), courts and public policy, policy evaluation, and Swiss politics. She is currently working on two main research projects: the first is interested in explaining legal mobilization and court impact in biotechnology policy-making in Europe and North-America (Canada, USA, Switzerland and Germany); the second analyses the use of public opinion research by the Canadian government in health policy making (biotechnology, tobacco and the future of the health care system). Dr. Rothmayr-Allison is also an experienced evaluator: she recently completed an evaluation of the Federal Gender Equality program for Swiss Universities.
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Saint-Martin, Denis ^{Cluster Member}

Denis Saint-Martin is an expert in public administration and policy. Since 2008, he is the director of the European Union Centre of Excellence at Université de Montréal and McGill University. His research interests deal with the regulation of ethics in politics, continuity and institutional change, new public management, and the politics of expertise. In 2005, he was a Fulbright scholar at the Kennedy School of Government and before that was a policy advisor in the Office of the Prime minister of Canada. Media Experience: Dr. Saint-Martin has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries.
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Schmidtke, Oliver ^{Cluster Member}

Oliver Schmidtke is Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and History, and he is also BC Metroplis' Domain leader for Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration. Currently his research focuses on the labour market inclusion of highly skilled immigrants as well as processes of political advocacy of migrant and minority groups. Media Experience: Dr. Schmidtke has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print media inquiries.
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Sens, Allen ^{Cluster Member}

Allen G. Sens specializes in international relations, with a research and teaching focus on international security. He has a particular interest in armed conflict and conflict management, and maintains research agendas on peace support operations, peacebuilding, European security, and Canadian foreign and defence policy. Dr. Sens is currently working on the fourth edition of Global Politics, a co-authored international relations textbook. Dr. Sens is currently chair of the International Relations Program, an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Arts. Allen Sens is also co-coordinator of the Terry Project and the related Global Citizenship Seminar Series, and a coteacher of ASIC 200, an integrated Arts/Science course in global issues. He is a graduate of the UBC Certificate Program in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. In 2003, Dr. Sens was a recipient of the UBC Killam Teaching Prize.
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Terriff, Terry ^{Cluster Member}

Terry Terriff is Arthur J. Child Chair in American Security Policy at The Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. He has recently published a number of articles on military change in the US Marine Corps and is currently working on a monograph on the same subject. As well, he is researching change in the US Army and the US military more widely. He was also  lead researcher for the British Economic and Social Research Council funded project, 'The Transatlantic Diffusion of U.S. Military Knowledge and European Military Transformation' that will result in a number of research publications on U.S. and European military change. Media Experience: Dr. Terriff has also a great deal of experience responding to media inquiries in TV, Radio and Print formats.  
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Triadafilopoulos, Phil (Triadafilos) ^{Cluster Member}

Phil Triadafilopoulos' research interests include comparative public policy, international migration, and ethnicity and nationalism. His current research focuses on how immigration and citizenship policies intersect with and help define boundaries of national belonging in liberal-democratic states (principally in Europe and North America). Presently, he is completing two book-length manuscripts, Becoming Multicultural: Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in Canada and Germany, and, co-authored with Tobias K. Vogel, Moving People, Fixing Borders: Population Transfers, the Great Powers and the Quest for Stability in Europe. He is also beginning work on a comparative study of immigrant integration politics and policy-making in Europe and North America. Media Experience: Dr. Triadafilopoulos has a great deal of experience with Canadian and international media inquiries.
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Ugland, Trygve ^{Cluster Member}

Trygve Ugland is Chair of the Department of Political Studies at Bishop's University. His research interests focus on the fields of Comparative Politics and Comparative Public Policy, with a particular interest in European and Scandinavian Politics. Dr. Ugland has also authored and co-authored several books and articles on the impacts of European integration on national public policies.
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Walters, William ^{Cluster Member}

William Walters is currently engaged in two research projects. The first examines the technopolitics of governing borders and human mobility and focuses on the emergence of new forms of identification and authentication such as the e-passport. The second is a book project exploring the recent uptake of Foucauldian political sociology within international relations. His previous research includes a contribution to the genealogy of social citizenship, and a study of the discourse of ‘illegal immigration' in Europe. Media Experience: Dr. Walters has media outreach experience predominantly in Print.
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Weibust, Inger ^{Cluster Member}

Inger Weibust’s research examines the interplay between governance and public policy, and particularly regulation. Is it possible to create institutions to carry out policy functions previously or usually performed by national governments? Her book Green Leviathans (Ashgate Publishers, 2009) looks at cooperation on environmental regulation between states/provinces and within federations. Dr. Weibust’s findings show that even with favourable conditions, cooperative approaches have largely been ineffective in comparison with national legislation or European Union level regulation.
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Winter, Elke ^{Cluster Member}

Elke Winter's research interests includes: "Race"/racism, nation-building, immigration, pluralism, citizenship; Canada/Québec, Western Europe; Interpretative methodologies, discourse analysis; Social theory, historical sociology, comparative sociology, and the sociology of ethnic relations.Her research aims to understand the dynamics of unequal group relations, processes of ethnicization, and pluralist nation-building from a historical and comparative perspective. She is particularly interested in the ways in which (previously constructed) ethnic diversity is integrated normatively into discourses and policies of immigration and citizenship. Her current work examines the triangular relations between national majorities, established minorities, and immigration-related diversity in Canada and Western Europe.
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Wolinetz, Steven B. ^{Cluster Member}

Steven Wolinetz is co-founder of the European Community Studies Association Canada (ECSAC) in 1995 and has chaired this organization ever since. His research interests relate to: Comparative and West European Politics; political parties; the politics of social partnership; smaller democracies; Netherlands, Ireland; and the European Union. Dr. Wolinetz is currently working on a book, Political Parties and Party Systems in the New Millennium. This text examines political parties and party systems in Europe and North America, what they do, and how we study them. Another of his current projects involves social partnership in Ireland and the Netherlands and coping with economic change. Media Experience: Dr. Wolinetz provides occasional commentaries on CBC Radio and Television, as well as op-ed pieces in The Telegram (in St. John's).
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