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Martin Klatt is an Associate Professor at the Department of Border Region Studies at University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on border related issues in European and North American border regions. Martin Klatt’s research in this field focuses on how border regions deal with these challenges, develop networks across borders or even institutionalize cross-border regions (Euroregions in Europe, public-private networks as the Pacific North West Economic Region in the US-Canadian context).   Research Interests: Danish-German history, Regional cross-border cooperation, […]

Martin Geiger is Associate Professor at Carleton University and is cross-appointed with the Department of Political Science and the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies . 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”. He recently received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to continue his work on international organizations in migration management. Martin is a collaborator in a EU-funded, multi-year “Horizon 2020” […]

Miriam M. Müller-Rensch (Joint PhD) received her doctorate jointly from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and the University of Victoria, Canada, in Political Science and International Relations. With her interdisciplinary dissertation on East German Foreign Policy in Southern Yemen, she especially addressed the role of Marxism-Leninism with regard to “Socialist state- and nation-building” in the Global South during the Cold War. Specialized in the politics of the Middle East, she focuses on religious and political ideologies, statehood, international security […]

Conrad King is Director of the EU Study Tour & Internship Program in Canada and conducts research on education policy in Europe, with a particular interest in recent reform attempts of secondary education in Germany and France. Conrad also has an interest in the Bologna Process (the creation of a European Higher Education Area) and its implications for universities and research agendas in Europe, as well as lesson-drawing between Canada and the European Union regarding governance of education and skills […]

Ania Zbyszewska is a Assistant Professor at the Carleton University. She obtained her doctorate in Law and Society from University of Victoria, Faculty of Law (Canada) in November 2012. She researches the intersection of law and politics, particularly in relation to the laws regulating labour market and employment in the context of the European Union (EU) and its post-socialist members. Drawing on feminist theories of law and political economy. Research Interests: EU Labour and Employment Policy and Regulation, Law and […]

Valerie D’Erman is a a postdoctoral researcher 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.   Research Interests: Comparative political economy; European Integration Theory; […]

Colin Bennett is a professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria. He was the Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria from 2003-2009. His research focuses on the comparative analysis of surveillance technologies and privacy protection policies at the domestic and international levels.   Research Interests: Comparative Politics; Public Policy; American Government and Politics; Information and Communications Policy; International Privacy Standards; Personal data Protection

Dr. Adriaan Schout is Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator Europe. He combines research and consultancy on European governance questions for national and European institutions. He has worked on projects addressing issues of the EU presidency, EU integration and Improving EU regulation, amongst others. Prior to joining Clingendael, he served as an independent expert in the field of EU governance for the Economic and Social Committee (2006) and for the Directorate-General for Research of the European Commission, supporting the multilevel coordination […]

Dr. Pierre Siklos has a particular interest in the governance models of central banks and the challenges that arise in an interdependent world. Dr. Siklos also includes the comparison of European models of integration with those in Asia. His work focuses on inflation and financial markets. Dr. Siklos held visiting researcher positions at central banks in European and Asian countries, including Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary and Japan. He has also held more than 20 visiting fellowships at leading academic institutions, […]

Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law and is a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. He has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School. Dr. […]

Crina Viju is and expert on European economic integration, economies in transition and  EU enlargement as well as on EU’s common agricultural policy. Currently she focuses her research on EU market integration, EU trade policy and the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. Research Interests: European Economic Integration, Economies in Transition, EU Enlargement, EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, and CETA

Anastasia Chebakova is a Policy Analyst at the Strategy and Integration Branch at Canada Revenue Agency – Agence du revenu du Canada.  She did her 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 […]

Mark Crawford is an assistant professor of political science at Athabasca University. His research expertise includes Canadian constitutionalism, political identity and citizenship, as well as evolving debates concerning the future of health care, social policy, and the welfare state in a globalizing world. For more information visit also his blog.   Research Interests: Canadian Politics; Comparative Federalism; Constitutional Politics; Political Economy; Political Theory

Thomas Hueglin is currently working on a general theory of federalism. Such a theory must be wider than the classical American model, and narrower than the ubiquitous concept of multilevel governance. In particular, it must integrate procedural elements of federal governance into the constitutional framework. It must also emphasize social solidarity as a precondition for member equality.   Research Interests: Comparative federalism, European Union, Political theory.

Keith Banting is the Stauffer Dunning Fellow and Professor Emeritus in the School of Policy Studies and the Department of Political Studies and former holder of the Queen’s Research Chair in Public Policy. His main area of expertise is in the field of public policy in Canada and other western nations.  More specifically, he works on issues of ethnic diversity, multiculturalism, and the welfare state. Professor Banting  was a Research Coordinator for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and […]

Lyubov Zhyznomirska is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Saint Mary’s University. Dr. Zhyznomirska is a scholar of European studies and migration studies, and her research is situated at the intersection of Comparative Politcs and International Relations. In the Department, Lyubov teaches comparative politics courses on international migration, nations and nationalism, politics of the European Union, and politics of development. She regularly supervises undergraduate Honours’ students in the areas of her scholarly interests. Prior to joining Saint Mary’s, Dr. Zhyznomirska […]