Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) Podcasts

Tony Porter conducts research on business regulation and global governance, including especially financial regulation, private and hybrid public/private rulemaking, the organizational effects in governance of technologies, and safety and environmental standards in the automobile industry. The path dependence and autonomy of the transnational regulatory arrangements in global finance are often underestimated because of the complexity and informality of these arrangements. The concept of assemblages is especially helpful in analyzing the way that the effects of these arrangements, and their significance for the power of financial actors, are shaped by interactions of a variety of actors and institutions with their own distinct purposes.

Doug Saunders is a Canadian-British author and journalist. He is the author of the book Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World (2011) and the London-based European bureau chief for The Globe and Mail. He writes a weekly column devoted to the larger themes and intellectual concepts behind international news. He intends to debunk the myth that immigrants from Muslim countries are wildly different and pose a threat to the West. Drawing on demographic, statistical, scholarly and historical documentation, the book examines the real lives and circumstances of Muslim immigrants in the West: their politics, their beliefs, their observances and their degrees of assimilation.

Hans-Martin Jaeger is Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. Prior to joining Carleton he taught at the University of Central Florida. Hans-Martin’s research interests are in international political theory and sociology, global governance and international organization, international public spheres and global civil society, and critical international relations theory. Jaeger’s talk will use Chantal Mouffe’s discussion of cosmopolitanism and multipolar order as a vantage point for a discussion of the political and post-political in the global governance projects of the European Union (EU) and the BRICS group. It complicates Mouffe’s position by mobilizing Foucauldian governmentality analysis and Jacques Rancière’s conception of politics.

Wesley Wark is a specialist in the history of intelligence services and national security policy. His interests include the popular culture of espionage and the study of terrorism and counter-terrorism. He is the author of an edited volume, Twenty-First Century Intelligence, and served as guest editor and contributor to a recent special issue of the International Journal devoted to “Security in an Age of Terrorism.” His major publications include The Ultimate Enemy: British Intelligence and Nazi Germany (1985) and he is currently working on a book on Canada and the War on Terror. He was President of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies, and is currently directing a major research project for the Institute for Research on Public Policy on “Security and Democracy”. Professor Wark is a frequent contributor in the national media on contemporary security issues

This public roundtable of experts on US politics and economics as well as Canada-US relations will focus its attention on explaining the results of the just completed US elections and on discussing their probable implications for Canada in terms of the future direction of the US economy and the government’s foreign policy.

Louis W. Pauly is Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and has held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Governance since 2002. As Director of the Centre for International Studies from 1997 to 2011, he helped build what is now the Munk School of Global Affairs, where he remains a member of the faculty. With Emanuel Adler, from 2007 to 2012 he edited International Organization. He has held management positions in the Royal Bank of Canada, won an International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations, and served on the staff of the International Monetary Fund.

Mark Stout is the International Spy Museum’s Historian. He worked for thirteen years as an intelligence analyst, first with the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and later with the CIA. He has also worked on the Army Staff in the Pentagon and at the Institute for Defense Analyses. In addition, Mr. Stout is a Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences where he teaches course on intelligence and strategic studies. Mr. Stout is the co-author of three books and has published articles in Intelligence and National Security, Studies in Intelligence, The Journal of Strategic Studies, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is associate professor of political science at Northwestern University. Hurd is the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton, 2008), which received the Morken award from the American Political Science Association, and co-editor of Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age (Palgrave, 2010). She is also co-organizer of “The Politics of Religious Freedom: Contested Norms and Local Practices,” a three-year study of legal and political contestation surrounding religious freedom and the rights of religious minorities in South and Southeast Asia, the U.S., the Middle East, and the European Union, funded by the Luce Foundation.

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.

Tarak Barkawi is associate professor in the Department of Politics, New School for Social Research. He specialises in the study of war, armed forces and society with a focus on conflict between the West and the global South. He has written on colonial armies, ‘small wars’ and imperial warfare, the Cold War in the Third World, and on counterinsurgency and the War on Terror. More generally, he is interested in the place of armed force in histories and theories of globalization, modernization and imperialism, especially from a postcolonial perspective. He has worked extensively with the UK and US armed forces in advisory and educational capacities. He is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera English online.

Dr. Ronald F. Lehman is Director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Chairman of the Governing Board of the International Science and Technology Center, and Vice Chair of the Defense Department’s Threat Reduction Advisory Committee.

Hartmut Behr is professor of international politics at Newcastle University (UK). His research focuses primarily on theories of international politics and questions of peace and peace formation, epistemology and sociology of knowledge of International Relations, political thought and identity in/of the European Union, and critical geopolitics. He is the author of Immigration Discourses and the Construction of “Otherness” in the US, Germany, and France (1998), Deterritorial Politics (2004), and A History of International Political Theory: Ontologies of the International (2010). This paper is on a new monograph (with the title Politics of Difference: A Phenomenological Approach to Peace) which will appear next year with Routledge (book series “Global Horizons”).

Uri Rosenthal was appointed as the Netherlands’ Minister of Foreign Affairs in October 2010. He has represented the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) in the Senate of the States General since June 1999. In addition to his political career, Uri Rosenthal is Professor of public administration at Leiden University. He was also previously Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and at the Erasmus University, from which he holds a doctorate in political and social sciences. He has published extensively, particularly with regard to safety and security, crisis management and public administration. Before his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was chairman of the Institute for Safety, Security and Crisis Management.

For the past two years the Government of India has been pursuing a plan, reliant on sophisticated new technology, to record the unique biometric identity (UID) of all of its 1.2 billion citizens. The UID will be essential for those, especially the poor, seeking access to government services and benefits. Marketed as an exercise to thwart corruption and provide legal identity to the poor and marginalised, the scheme has attracted criticism due to the potential for its misuse, and as a vehicle by which the state can expand its surveillance and control, and its intrusion into the private lives of Indians.

Joshua Rovner is Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy at the U.S. Naval War College, adjunct professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and reviews editor of The Journal of Strategic Studies. Rovner is the author of the recent book, Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence (Cornell University Press, 2011). Other recent publications include “Is Politicization Ever a Good Thing?” Intelligence and National Security (forthcoming); “The Heroes of COIN,” Orbis; and “Dominoes on the Durand Line? Overcoming Strategic Myths in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” with Austin Long, in Foreign Policy Briefing, (Cato Institute, June 2011).