Cluster:Canada and the EU as Global Actors
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
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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- Comparative Urban Governance
- Governance of Cross-border Regions
- Comparative Decentralization
- Horizontal and Vertical Governance
- Theorization of Cross-border Regions
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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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
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
Long, David Cluster Member
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
McFalls, Laurence Cluster Member
Laurence McFalls (PhD Harvard) is Professor in Political Science and Director for the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES) at the Université de Montréal. His research interests include: Political and Social Theories; Max Weber; Military-Humanitarian Interventions; Political Culture; Epistomology and Methodology in the social sciences; and Western and Central-Eastern Europe. He is co-director of the Groupe de recherche sur les interventions militaires et humanitaires (GRIMH).
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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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- 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, Constanza 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 ...
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. 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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- American Security Policy
- Military and Strategic Studies
- Transatlantic Security/NATO
- Change/innovation in military organizations
- Change in warfare