International Relations
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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- Political Science
- International Studies
- International Development
Charles Pentland Cluster Member
Dr. Pentland's current research concerns the political development and external relations of the European Union. Focal points are, first, the security implications of its enlargement to include countries in Central and Eastern Europe; second, the EU's changing role in the Balkans; and, third, its development of a common foreign and security policy in the wake of ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. Media Experience: Dr. Pentland has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print media inquiries.
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- European Union enlargement
- EU Common Foreign and Security Policy
- EU relations with Balkans and former Soviet Union
- Transnational relations – Canada, EU, US
- International organizations
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DeBardeleben, Joan Cluster Member
Joan DeBardeleben is Chancellor's Professor of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is also founder and Director of the Centre for European Studies (EU Centre of Excellence) and of the Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue, a major network of Canadian and European experts funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is the author of several books and articles dealing with Russian and East European politics, particularly relating to federalism, democratisation, public opinion and elections, labour relations, and environmental issues. Her current research projects deal with EU-Russian relations, German-EU relations, and Polish-Russian relations. She also conducts research on the political significance of recent changes in Russian federalism and on democratic participation in the European Union, particularly in relation to European Parliament elections and in the new member states of central and eastern Europe. Media ...
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- Russian Politics and Society
- EU-Russian Relations
- Federalism and Multi-level Governance
- European Neighbourhood Policy
- Federalism and Multi-level Governance
- Democratic Participation an ...
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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- European Union Law
- International Trade Law and Policy
- Sustainable Development Law and Policy
- Comparative Federalism
- Public International Law
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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- American foreign policy
- Canadian foreign policy
- Transatlantic relations
- Canada-US relations
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. He holds the Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration and Global Political Economy. 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-Renminbi). 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. His most recent book publication deals with ‘Europe, Canada and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Routldege). In 2012 his book on ‘Global Currency Conflicts and Cooperation' will be re ...
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- International Political Economy
- European Integration
- Euro
- Currency Regimes
- Comparative Political Economy
- Climate Policies, Sustainability and Innovation Regimes
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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- Transatlantic Relations
- Comparative Politics
- Political Economy
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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- Political geography and geopolitics
- Security and state sovereignty
- Policy processes
- Borders
- Identity and nationalism
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. Media Experience: Dr. Leblond has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries
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- International political economy
- Global economic governance
- International business
- International finance and money
- European and North American economic integration
Long, David Cluster Member
- International Political Economy
- European Integration, Trade and Currency Regimes
- Comparative Political Economy, Labour Market and Innovation
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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- International relations theory
- Security studies
- Foreign and security policy of France
- Great Britain and the European Union
- Popular culture and international relations
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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- Comparative Politics
- Public Policy
- European Integration
- Gender Politics
Merand, Frédéric Cluster Member
Frédéric Mérand is Professor of Political Science at the University of Montréal and Professor of European Studies at LUISS University in Rome. 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. Mérand has published on the European Security and Defence Policy, EU-NATO relations, transatlantic relations, Canadian foreign policy, and the sociology of international relations. Media Experience: Dr. Merand has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries.
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- European Union
- EU-Canada
- International Relations and Foreign Policy
Moens, Alex Cluster Member
Moens' work includes current analysis of American foreign and national security decision-making and diplomatic and military issues in the Atlantic Alliance. What are Canada's objectives in NATO and how should Canada best work with the European Union on security and political issues. His research also includes the study of the Canadian-American economic space and the steps needed to create more free trade. Media Experience: Dr. Moens has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries.
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- International Relations
- American Foreign Policy
- Transatlantic security and defence issues
- NATO and ESDP
- Canadian-American Relations
Musu, Costanza Cluster Member
Dr. Costanza Musu is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, on EU policy towards the Middle East, on EU-NATO relations and on Transatlantic relations in the field of security and defense. Her latest book, "European Union Policy towards the Arab-Israeli Peace Process: The Quicksands of Politics" was published by Palgrave Macmillan in the series Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Media Experience: Dr. Musu has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries.
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- European Union foreign and security policy
- EU policy towards the Middle East conflict
- Transatlantic Relations in the field of security and defense EU-NATO relations
- International security
- Conflict res ...
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's book, co-written with Peter Newell (University of East Anglia, UK) entitled Climate Capitalism, was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press.
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- Climate change politics
- Global environmental governance
- Global environmental politics
- International Relations Theory
- International/global political economy
Petit, Isabelle Cluster Member
Isabelle Petit is the Executive Director of the McGill University- Université de Montréal European Union Centre of Excellence. She is also the Research Director of The Federal Idea, a Quebec think-tank on federalism. 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 is open to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries.
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- European integration
- Comparative politics
- International relations
- Public Law
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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- International relations
- International security
- Armed conflict and conflict management
- European security
- Canadian foreign and defence policy
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 and Interim Head, Department of Political Science, University of Calgary. He has published articles on military change in the US Marine Corps and European militaries (including NATO military transformation) as wel he is researching on change in the US Army and the US military more widely. He is currently writing, with two European colleagues, a monograph that compares institutional change in the British, French and American armies since the end of the cold war and is working on a piece on NATO military transformation since 9/11. 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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- American Security Policy
- Military and Strategic Studies
- Transatlantic Security/NATO
- Change/innovation in military organizations
- Change in warfare
Verdun, Amy Cluster Member
Amy Verdun is Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Victoria, in Victoria BC, Canada where she has been since 1997. Her recent research focuses on an evaluation of ten years economic and monetary integration in Europe, including research on the EU Stability and Growth Pact, innovative governance in the European Union, delegation and power in EU institutions, European Neighbourhood policies and the relations between the EU and its Eastern Neighbours, lessons from Europe for Canada, globalization, Europe's common agricultural policy, development and European integration, foreign policy and European integration, and comparative regional integration (including Europe-Asia comparisons. Media Experience: Dr. Verdun has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries.
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- Comparative politics
- International relations
- European integration and governance
- International political economy
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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- Political Sociology
- Social Theory
- Political Economy
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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- Environmental Issues
- Regulation
- Voluntary Codes
- Governance
- Water
Auvachez, Elise
Elise Auvachez’s research looks into the construction of citizenship beyond the nation-state, and particularly the processes of "citizenisation" by the EU and the UN. One of her case studies focuses on youth citizenship. Media Experience: Elise Auvachez welcomes TV, Radio and Print media inquiries.
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- Citizenship,
- European Citizenship;
- Human rights and the EU;
- Policy/legislative process,
- Popular Participation and Citizenship,
- Referenda in the EU,
- Treaties and Conv ...
Chebakova, Anastasia
Anastasia Chebakova is currently pursuing a PhD in Political Science at the University of Victoria in Canada. She completed her MA together with a Graduate Diploma in European and Russian Studies from Carleton University in Canada (2009). She also holds a BA in International Relations from Russia (2005), Certificates of Completion of several distance learning courses from Stanford University, USA (2006) and has professional experience as a leading project manager (non-governmental sector, Russia, 2006) and a research analyst ("Universalia Management Group," Canada, 2008). She is currently a research assistant at the University of Victoria and a visiting researcher at the Swedish National Defence College. She is also the new President of the Young Researchers Network (YRN) of the European Community Studies Association in Canada (ECSA-C) and a co-creator of a YRN in Sweden. Her research interests include EU-Russia relations, theoretical concepts of the EU as a global actor, E ...
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D'Erman, Valerie
Valerie D'Erman is a sessional instructor at the University of Victoria in the Department of Political Science. She has published in International Politics, the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and contributed to a co-authored book titled "Protecting Our Ports: Domestic and International Politics of Containerized Freight Security," in 2010 with Ashgate Press. Her dissertation, "The Europeanization of Industrial Relations in Ireland and Italy," was successfully defended in December 2012.
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- Comparative political economy,
- European Integration Theory,
- International Relations,
- Security Communities
Duyulmus, Cem Utku
Cem Utku Duyulmus has specialized on Comparative Politics and International Relations in the course of doctoral reearch, and is also interested in European Integration and Social Policy and Welfare State. Currently, his research focuses on the comparative analysis of social policies in Western and Eastern European countries, and the transformation of the welfare state in Turkey compared to Eastern and Southern European countries with a focus on social security systems, flexecurity and activation policies. Media Experience: Mr. Utku Duyulmus welcomes inquiries in TV, Radio and Print media formats.
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- Comparative Politics,
- International Relations,
- European Integration,
- Social Policy and Welfare State
Ece Ozlem Atikcan
Ece Ozlem Atikcan is Assistant Professor at Laval University, Department of Political Science. Dr. Atikcan's research interests lie at the intersection of International Relations and Comparative Politics fields, with a particular focus on European Integration. Her research combines the study of international organizations with questions of voting behavior, political parties, transnational social movements, and nationalism. Her doctoral research investigated the role of framing and diffusion in the 2005 EU Constitutional referenda that took place in Spain, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
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- Political Science
- Comparative Politics
- International Relations
Fraser, Derek R. T.
Derek Fraser is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Global Studies and Adjunct Professor of Political Scienceat the University of Victoria. His work has supported the democratization process in the Ukraine and he has organized and contributed to academic and foreign policy conferences, notably on failed states and Eastern Europe. Formerly, Derek Fraser was a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA) and President of the Victoria branch. Media Experience: Dr. Fraser has a tremendous wealth of media outreach experience on numerous programs and in a multitude of publications across TV, Radio and Print formats, and welcomes future media inquiries.
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Geiger, Martin
Martin Geiger is ‘Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow' at Carleton University. Martin is leading a project "Smart New Border World - Information Technologies and Security Industries in the Management of Human Cross-Border Mobility in North America". The project runs from 2012 to 2014.
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Haine Jean Yves
Jean Yves Haine's research focuses on European security, Atlantic relations and the use of force. He covers broad strategic issues: the Afghan conflict, ESDP missions, EU Neighborhood policies, counter-terrorism. He is currently writing a book on Europe's most important security decisions since WW2, from the British atomic bomb to ESDP. Media Experience: Dr. Haine has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries.
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- Atlantic Relations
- EU foreign and Defence Policies
- Decision-Making
- Use of force
Jakhu, Ram
Ram Jakhu is the managing editor of Space Regulations Library Series; a member of the Editorial Boards of the Annals of Air and Space Law and of the Utrecht Series in Air and Space Law; a member of the Board of the International Institute of the Space Law International Astronautical Federation; and the Chairman of the Legal and Regulatory Committee of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety. His research interests include: international space law; law of space applications; law of space commercialization; government regulation of space activities; law of telecommunications; Canadian communications law; and public international law. Media Experience: Dr. Jakhu has extensive media outreach experience in TV, Radio and Print media formats and invites future inquiries for comment.
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Kennedy, Sean
Sean Kennedy is a historian of modern France and generally his research focuses upon political and intellectual developments during the 20th century. More specifically Dr. Kennedy has published on ultra-nationalist movements in France from the 1920s through the Second World War. He is currently studying the attitudes of French intellectuals towards the English-speaking nations during the first half of the twentieth century, as well as the evolution of racism and antisemitism during the same period. Media Experience: Dr. Kennedy welcomes media requests from TV, Radio and Print media outlets.
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Leuprecht, Christian
As a political demographer at the Royal Military College of Canada, Christian Leuprecht is particularly interested in the political, cultural, social, economic and security implications of population change and migration. His current major project concerns political mobilization and radicalization leading to violent extremism, especially among youth and minority communities, with a focus on examining the individual, collective, and structural determinants of resilience among at-risk communities. Dr. Leuprecht is also doing work on comparative civil-military relations and military sociology with a particular interest in the relationship between the security sector and demographic as well as value changes in democratic societies insofar as these affect recruitment, retention, military affairs, transformation, and reform. In this regard, he is particularly interested in the relationship between the provision of security and democratic governance of deeply diverse societies. He continues t ...
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Lukic, Renéo
Renéo Lukic is a Full Professor in the Department of History at Laval University and a Senior fellow at the Institut Québécois des Hautes Études Internationales. His major research includes Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Balkans, European International Organizations, European Diplomatic History, Balkans in the 20th Century, Soviet/East European Relations in the 20th Century, Comparative Communist Systems, Soviet Foreign Policy and Russian Foreign Policy.
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Mahant, Edelgard
Edelgard Mahant has studied the European Union for the past forty years. She has a special interest in French politics, the history of the European Union and the human rights work of the Council of Europe. She has a long standing interest in the European Union's special relationship with Africa.
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- European Union
- Foreign policy analysis
- History of European integration
- The EU in Africa
- Politics of international trade
- Foreign policy of the states of southern Africa
- The human ...
Molchanov, Mikhail A.
Mikhail Molchanov’s research interests include regionalism and globalization, Russian foreign economic policy, and politics of energy in Eurasia. As a student of international political economy of regionalization in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Dr. Molchanov focuses on the dynamics of domestic and external factors in foreign policy formulation and development. He has recently co-edited the Ashgate Research Companion to Political Leadership, which surveys theories of leadership and examines their implications for leadership in the global era. Dr. Molchanov's analysis of Russia’s foreign policy in the post-Putin era seeks to delineate the limits of Russia’s postimperial realignment. This research proposes that over-reliance on energy trade and officially promulgated nationalism may weaken Russia's positions in Central Asia, as well as the country's relations with the European Union, NATO, and the United States.
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Mutlu, Can
Can E. Mutlu's main research interests are the External Relations of the European Union under the European Neighbourhood Policy, functioning of the EU's external border management service - FRONTEX. His broader interests are: political geography - borders, space and territoriality, critical security studies - securitization theory, and European Integration Theories - External dimension of European integration in the areas of energy, telecommunications, transportation and immigration.
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- International relations
- Political Theory
- Political Sociology
- International Political Sociology
- Visa Regimes
- Mobility Regimes
- Boundary Conflicts
- Regional Policy < ...
Paudyn, Bartholomew
Bartholomew Paudyn is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. For part of 2011, he is working at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Warwick as a Visiting Research Fellow. His main areas of interest include government through risk and uncertainty in the context of the European political economy. Analysing the intersections between fiscal politics and global finance, his research focuses on how the discursive practices of risk and uncertainty contribute to the creation of a regulatory capacity and the EMU space. Currently, he is involved in a project that problematises the role of credit rating agencies in the European sovereign debt crisis and how authoritative knowledge is constituted and deployed in the politics of creditworthiness.
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- International political economy; especially financial and fiscal relations
- Management through risk and uncertainty
- Credit rating agencies and the politics of creditworthiness
- The political economy of Economic a ...
Soldatos, Panayotis
Panayotis Soldatos is Emeritus Professor from the Université de Montréal and a Jean Monnet Professor at the Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3. His major research focuses on the major constitutional issues in the EU, particularly by bridging the gap between the legal and political analysis of European integration.
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Vallet, Elisabeth
Elisabeth Vallet is an Associate Professor and a Research Director in geopolitics at the Raoul-Dandurand Chair at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Transatlantic relations and EU-US constitutional analysis are her major fields of interest.
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Vourkoutiotis, Vasilis
Vasilis Vourkoutiotis is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa. His major research includes Russian-EU relations, modern Germany, Holocaust and genocide studies.
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Zaiotti, Ruben
Ruben Zaiotti's research focuses on the European Union's Justice and Home affairs policy domain, with particular emphasis on issues of security, border control and migration. He is currently working on two research projects. The first examines the ongoing cooperation between the European Union, the Unites states and Canada over issues of justice and home affairs and its impact on the diffusion of policies and practices across the Atlantic. The second looks at the European Union attempts to establish a common foreign policy and its implications for the EU's quest to become a coherent and autonomous actor in world affairs.
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Zhyznomirska, Lyubov
Lyubov Zhyznomirska is interested in the European Union’s foreign relations in general and migration relations in particular with its eastern neighbours – specifically, with Russia and Ukraine. She critically investigates the impact of the EU’s immigration and asylum policies on Ukraine and Russia, policy- and politics-wise. Lyubov is also interested in the EU’s role in international regulation of migration processes.
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- Immigration and multiculturalism
- International relations
- Foreign policy
- Comparative European politics
- Citizenship studies
- Post-Soviet area studies
- Political parties and political participation
- Social ...
