People Directory
Canada-US security relations, Canada-China relations, NATO expansion in Eastern Europe.
Current Interests/Research:
- Federal-provincial relations;
- Social policy;
- Maternal and child health, sustainable economic growth, and fragile and conflict affected states.
U.S. foreign and military power, International security, and Feminist international relations.
Current Interests/Research:
- United Nations, particularly UN efforts to deal with conflict in the post-Cold War environment
- Regional organizations dealing with conflict in Africa
- The UN and terrorism
- UN experience in Congo, Somalia and Bosnia
Social cohesion, Foreign policy analysis, and Civil-military relations
Current Interests/Research:
- Educator and author in the areas of Public Safety and Emergency Management.
Canadian professional military education, and Canadian military operations and training since 1946
International Relations (IR theory, IPE, critical theory, philosophy of social science, evolution of the field, neogramsican IR), Middle Eastern Politics (the Kurdish question, neoimperialism and post-colonialism, Canada and the Middle East, Turkey and Afghanistan).
Canadian foreign and security policy, Middle East, with particular reference to security aspects of Arab-Israeli affairs, inter-Arab relations and the Persian Gulf region, South Asia, with particular reference to the security aspects of Indo-Pakistani relations and Pakistani-Afghan relations.
Middle East politics, International Relations, and Strategic and Security Studies
Canadian Military History, including historical aspects of military, veteran and family health; human behaviour in war; military leadership and command; and air warfare.
African politics: diamond mining, human security; Global governance, regionalism and regionalization; Natural resources and civil conflict, secessionist movements; and PostConflict Reconstruction and Transitional Justice.
American foreign policy; transatlantic relations; Canada-US relations; Canadian foreign policy.
Politics of nationalism and ethnicity; state and majority-minority relations; Middle East politics; politics of Israel; Palestinian-Israeli relations; settlers and territorial disputes.
- Middle East Issues; Geopolitics; Canadian foreign and defence policy; Nuclear proliferation; Comparative Politics.
Strategy; Technology; Intelligence; Low Intensity Warfare; Sea Power.
Security studies, military alliances, NATO, deterrence, and gender dynamics in the armed forces.
Strategic foresight in a changing world environment, renewed possibilities, and implications, of conventional warfare between near-peer powers, and building state capacity to reclaim ungoverned space
International/Comparative Political Economy; Comparative Regionalism with emphasis in Latin America; Global Governance; Comparative Public Policy.
Security issues in the postSoviet Union; Russian foreign policy; Ethnic conflicts in multinational states.
Turkish and Middle Eastern security issues; Civil-Mililtary relations in developing countries; Canadian foreign and defence policy.
Transnational Criminal and Terrorist Movement and Flows, Cybersecurity and Cybercrime, National Security and Intelligence Accountability, Review, and Oversight, National and subregional Border Integrity, Security, Cultures and Cross-border cooperation, policy networks, and governance, Political Demography and Diversity in the Armed Forces, Demographic and resource determinants of conflict and instability in Mali
War in Afghanistan; The Cold War; Nuclear Weapons and Atomic History; Peacekeeping and Stabilization Operations.
Multilateral diplomacy, global security, and the role of discourse in international relations, with a specialization on Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific.
Insurgencies, terrorism, intelligence, Special Forces operations.
Coercion, American politics, and Canadian military commitments to international operations.
North American political history, Canadian international history, United States and the world, The Cold War, ad International Human Rights.
Canadian foreign and defence policy, Australian foreign and defence policy, Canadian-American relations, international stabilization missions.
Political development and external relations of the European Union.
Strategic planning and leadership, IT, Program management and international affairs and policy.
Latin American foreign policy and security issues, and human and women’s rights abuses and gender-based violence across South America.
Conflict resolution, peace building, and development.
Canadian foreign and defence policy, international security relations, and American foreign and defence policy.
Russian defence policy, NATO-Russia relations, and nuclear disarmament and arms control.
Canadian politics, foreign policy, Canada-Mexico relations, Canadian security in Latin America, and the relationship between the Organization of American States and Canada.
Security studies, East Asian politics & international relations, and US-China relations.
Counter Insurgency Warfare with a special focus on ISIS and possible future conflicts based on religious extremism, Aviation Technology: next generation fighter aircraft, Political constraints on modern warfare and how they affect the military's capabilities to achieve their strategic goal: using the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns, The power of Information Operation (including social media and their effect on public perception)
Air warfare, Canadian military history, higher education including military education and professional development, leadership and decision making.
Sahel region of Africa, personal finance education within DND, and strategic management and organizational change.
Multinational Coalition Warfare, Eastern and Central Europe history, and Military Intelligence.
World Trade Organization (WTO), trade policy, and transparency and accountability.