Research Clusters

Brandon Dickson

Brandon Dickson

Brandon Dickson (he/him) is a PhD candidate (ABD) at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His research focuses on the international drivers of sustainability decision making in organizational policies. Previously, Brandon’s research programme has focused on the politics of education in the wake of mass atrocities. Brandon has worked in various research roles in academic, […]

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Abdiasis Issa

Abdiasis Issa

Abdiasis Issa is a PhD Candidate and Doctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His research interests include United Nations and African Union peace operations, regional security governance, security regionalism and the interplay of international and regional organizations in peacebuilding, managing conflict and global governance. His dissertation critically examines the United Nations-African Union

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Ben Clift

Ben Clift

Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy, Deputy Head, and Director of Research in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His research interests lie at the interface of comparative and international political economy. He recently held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled ‘The OBR and the

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Trevor McCrisken

Trevor McCrisken

Trevor McCrisken’s research and teaching interests are in US foreign policy and US politics with a focus on the use of US military force, counterterrorism, national security policy and the ideational bases for US foreign policy. His current major research project focuses on the narratives constructed around the use of drones for ‘targeted killing’. He is

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Karen Yeates

Karen Yeates

Dr. Karen Yeates MD, FRCPC, MPH. is a graduate of McGill University (BSc 1993) and Queen’s University School of Medicine (1997). She is currently a Professor of Medicine and Clinician-Scientist in the Department of Medicine at Queen’s University. She co-founded (2012) and co-directed the Office of Global Health (ending in 2016) within the Faculty of

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Mark Raymond

Mark Raymond

Mark Raymond is the Wick Cary Associate Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Cyber Governance and Policy Center at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Social Practices of Rule-Making in World Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). His work appears in various academic journals including International Theory, the

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Don McCutchan

Don McCutchan

Don McCutchan has broad international experience, working with the financial sector, pension funds, mining, and real estate. A former senior official at the Canadian Department of Finance, Don was involved in virtually all areas of government policy and was actively involved with the negotiation of the Canada/U.S. Free Trade Agreement. Don has extensive experience coordinating

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Jacob Benjamin

Jacob Benjamin

Jacob is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded Ph.D. candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the University of Waterloo. Jacob was the Global Affairs Canada 2023-2024 Margaret Meagher Fellow, where he worked to deepen the Government of Canada’s understanding of China. Jacob holds an M.A. in Political Science from

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Felicia Clement

Felicia is a Ph.D. candidate in the Global Governance program at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her doctoral research examines how trust and mistrust effects refugees’ journeys and integration into their host communities. She hopes her work will provide essential insights into where refugees’ experiences of trust/mistrust stem from, how it influences their decision-making in

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