Courses (2011-12)

Fall 2011
POLS-264, World Politics in Historical Perspective
POLS-369, Canadian Foreign Policy

Winter 2012
POLS-110, Introduction to Politics and Government
POLS-465, The Politics of War




Research & Supervisory Interests

I would be interested in supervising graduate theses on topics in Canadian foreign and defence policy, Canadian-American relations, and Australian foreign and defence policy



Selected Publications


Books and Monographs

KRN, Stéphane Roussel and Stéphane Paquin, International Policy and Politics in Canada (Toronto: Pearson Education, 2011), xxiv, 358 pp.

Greg Donaghy and KRN, eds. Architects and Innovators: Building the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1909–2009 / Architectes et innovateurs : le développement du ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Commerce international, de 1909 à 2009 ( Montréal and Kingston: Queen's Policy Studies Series, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009), vii, 318 pp.

KRN, Stéphane Roussel et Stéphane Paquin, Politique internationale et défense au Canada et au Québec (Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2007), pp. 646

Nelson Michaud and KRN, eds., Diplomatic Departures: The Conservative Era in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1984-93 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001)

The Patterns of World Politics (Scarborough, ON: Prentice Hall Allyn & Bacon Canada, 1998), xxvii, 532 pp.

The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, 3rd ed. (Scarborough, ON: Prentice Hall Canada, 1997); 1st ed. 1985; 2nd ed. 1989; xxiii, 358 pp.

KRN and Carolynn Vivian, A Brief Madness: Australia and the Resumption of French Nuclear Testing, Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence 121 (Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1997), 65 pp.

Rain Dancing: Sanctions in Canadian and Australian Foreign Policy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994), xviii, 323 pp.

Andrew F. Cooper, Richard A. Higgott, and KRN, Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1993), xiv, 232 pp.

The Beijing Massacre: Australian Responses, Australian Foreign Policy Papers (Canberra: Department of International Relations, Australian National University, 1993), 72 pp.



Articles in Journals/Chapters in Books:

“Don't Talk About the Neighbours: Canada and the Regional Politics of the Afghanistan Mission,” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 17:1 (March 2011): 9–22.

“Understanding Canadian Defence Policy,” in Duane Bratt and Christopher J. Kukucha, eds., Readings in Canadian Foreign Policy, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada, 2011), 303–315.

Alan Bloomfield and KRN, “End of an Era? Anti-Americanism in the Australian Labor Party,” Australian Journal of Politics and History 55:4 (December 2010): 592–611.

"Rethinking the Security Imaginary: Canadian Security and the Case of Afghanistan," in Bruno Charbonneau and Wayne S. Cox, eds., Locating Global Order: American Power and Canadian Security After 9/11 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010), 107-25.

'Middlepowerhood' and ‘Middlepowermanship' in Canadian Foreign Policy,” in Nikola Hynek and David Bosold, eds., Canada's Foreign and Security Policy: Soft and Hard Strategies of a Middle Power (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2010), 20-34

“No Exit: Canada and the ‘War without End' in Afghanistan,” in Hans-Georg Ehrhart and Charles C. Pentland, eds., The Afghanistan Challenge: Hard Realities and Strategic Choices (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009), 157-73

Ann Capling and KRN, “The Contradictions of Regionalism in North America,” Review of International Studies 35:S1 (February 2009): 147-67; also published in Rick Fawn, ed., Globalising the Regional, Regionalising the Global (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Wayne S. Cox and KRN, “The ‘Crimson World': The Anglo Core, the Post-Imperial Non-core, and the Hegemony of American IR,” in Arlene B. Tickner and Ole Wæver, eds., International Relations Scholarship around the World (London: Routledge, 2009), 287-306.

“The Unavoidable Shadow of Past Wars: Obsequies for Casualties of the Afghanistan Mission in Australia and Canada,” Australasian Canadian Studies 26:1 (2008), 91-124

Alan Bloomfield and KRN, “Toward an ‘Explicative Understanding' of Strategic Culture: The Cases of Australia and Canada,” Contemporary Security Policy 28:2 (August 2007): 285-306

"Right and Wrong in Foreign Policy 40 Years On: Realism and Idealism in Canadian Foreign Policy,” International Journal 62:2 (Spring 2007), 263-77.

“Anti-Americanism in Canada ,” in Brendon O'Connor, ed., Anti-Americanism: History, Causes, and Themes , vol. 3: Comparative Perspectives (Oxford/Westport: Greenwood World Publishing, 2007), 59-76

Nelson Michaud and KRN, “Out of the Blue: The Mulroney Legacy in Foreign Policy,” in Raymond B. Blake, ed., Transforming the Nation: Canada and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney ( Montreal and Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007), 113-31

“Defense Policy and the Atmospherics of Canada-U.S. Relations: The Case of the Harper Conservatives,” American Review of Canadian Studies 37:1 (Spring 2007), 23-34

"A Question of Balance: The Cult of Research Intensivity and the Professing of Political Science in Canada: Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association, Toronto, Ontario, June 2, 2006," Canadian Journal of Political Science 39:4 (December 2006): 735-54

“World Politics: Global Anarchy, Global Governance,” in Rand Dyck , ed., Studying Politics: An Introduction to Political Science , 2nd ed. ( Toronto : Thomson Nelson, 2006), 375-9

Ann Capling and KRN, “Blowback: Investor-State Dispute Mechanisms in International Trade Agreements,” Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions 19 (April 2006): 151-72

"Ear Candy: Canadian Policy toward Humanitarian Intervention and Atrocity Crimes in Darfur,” International Journal 60 (Autumn 2005), 1017-1032

"Looking Enviously Down Under? The Australian Experience and Canadian Foreign Policy,” in Andrew F. Cooper and Dane Rowlands, eds., Canada Among Nations 2005: Split Images ( Kingston and Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005), 79-92

"Canada and the Search for World Order: John W. Holmes and Canadian Foreign Policy,” International Journal 59 (Autumn 2004), 749-60

"Defending the 'Realm': Canadian Strategic Culture Revisited," International Journal 59 (Summer 2004), 503-520

T.S. Hataley and KRN, “The Limits of the Human Security Agenda: The Case of Canada's Response to the Timor Crisis,” Global Change, Peace and Security (February 2004)

Ann Capling and KRN, “Parliament and the Democratization of Foreign Policy: The Case of Australia's Joint Standing Committee on Treaties,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 36:4 (September 2003), 835-55

Ann Capling and KRN,“The Third Sector Meets the National Security State : The Anti-Globalization Movement in Canada after 9/11,” in Kathy Brock, ed., Delicate Dances: Public Policy and the Nonprofit Sector ( Montreal and Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003), 275-96.

“Canadian Foreign Policy after 9/11: Realignment, Reorientation or Reinforcement?,” in Lenard Cohen, Brian Job and Alexander Moens, eds., Foreign Policy Realignment in the Age of Terror ( Toronto : Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 2003), 20-34.

Ann Capling and KRN, “The Limits of Like-Mindedness: Australia , Canada , and Multilateral Trade,” in Margaret MacMillan and Francine McKenzie , eds., Parties Long Estranged: Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century ( Vancouver : UBC Press, 2003), 229-48

“Le Canada après le 11 septembre : Les défis d'une ère nouvelle,” Études internationales 33:4 (décembre 2002), 621-27

“Canada and the United States in a Hyperpower Era,” in Ann L. Griffiths, ed., The Canadian Forces and Interoperability: Panacea or Perdition? ( Halifax : Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University , 2002), 172-81

“World Politics: Global Anarchy, Global Governance,” in Rand Dyck, ed., Studying Politics: An Introduction to Political Science ( Toronto : Thomson Nelson, 2002), 369-88

“Smarter, Sharper, Stronger? UN Sanctions and Conflict Diamonds in Angola ,” in Andrew F. Cooper and Ramesh Thakur, eds., Enhancing Global Governance: Towards a New Diplomacy? ( Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 2002), 248-67

“Global Governance and National Interests: The Regulation of Transnational Security Corporations in the Post-Cold War Era,” Melbourne Journal of International Law 2 (2001), 459-76

"Throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Huntington's 'kin-country' thesis and Australian-Canadian relations," in Linda Cardinal and David Headon, eds., Shaping Nations: Constitutionalism and Society in Australia and Canada (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2002), 167-181

"Bilateral free trade with the United States: Lessons from Canada," Policy, Organisation and Society 20:1 (2001), Special Edition: An American-Australian Free Trade Treaty?, pp. 47-62.

Ann Capling and KRN, 'Death of distance or tyranny of distance? The Internet, deterritorialization, and the anti-globalization movement in Australia,' Pacific Review 14:2 (2001)

Nelson Michaud and KRN, 'Introduction: The Conservative era in Canadian foreign policy, 1984-1993,' and 'Conclusion: Diplomatic departures? Assessing the Conservative era in foreign policy,' in Michaud and Nossal, eds., Diplomatic Departures

"Opening up the policy process: does party make a difference?" in Michaud and Nossal, eds., Diplomatic Departures

'Conclusion: the decline of the Atlanticist tradition in Canadian foreign policy,' in George A. MacLean, ed., Between Actor and Presence: The European Union and the Future for the Transatlantic Relationship (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2001), 223-34

'Tales that textbooks tell: ethnocentricity and diversity in American introductions to international relations,' in Robert M.A. Crawford and Darryl S.L. Jarvis, eds., International Relations-Still an American Social Science? Toward Diversity in International Thought (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001), 167-86

'Ce qu'il est préférable de taire : Le Canada et l'élargissement de l'OTAN,' Cahiers d'histoire 20:2 (hiver 2001), 99-117

(with Stéphane Roussel) 'Canada and the Kosovo war: the happy follower,' in Pierre Martin and Mark R. Brawley, eds., Alliance Politics, Kosovo, and NATO's War: Allied Force or Forced Allies? (New York: Palgrave, 2000), 181-99

'Life with uncle revisited: the United States and the issue of leadership,' in David G. Haglund, ed., The France-US Leadership Race: Closely Watched Allies (Kingston: Queen's Quarterly Press, 2000), 157-79.

"Home-Grown IR: The Canadianization of International Relations,' Journal of Canadian Studies 35 (Spring 2000), 95-114

(with Nelson Michaud) 'Les nouveaux espaces de la politique étrangère canadienne (1984-1993),' Études internationales 31 (juin 2000), 241-52

'Mission diplomacy and the "cult of the initiative" in Canadian foreign policy,' in Andrew F. Cooper and Geoffrey Hayes, eds., Worthwhile Initiatives? Canadian Mission-Oriented Diplomacy (Toronto: Irwin, 2000), 1-12

‘Liberal-democratic regimes, international sanctions, and global governance,’ in Raimo Väyrynen, ed., Global Governance and Enforcement: Issues and Strategies (Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield, 1999), 127-49

‘The false promise of economic sanctions,’ in Mark Charlton, ed., Cross Currents: International Relations in the Post-Cold War Era, rev. ed. (Toronto: ITP Nelson, 1999), 525-29

‘International sanctions as instruments of global governance,’ Global Society  13:2 (April 1999), 125-37

David Black, Maxwell A. Cameron, Andrew F. Cooper, Mark Neufeld, Heather Smith, and KRN, ‘Roundtable on Canadian foreign policy,’ Canadian Foreign Policy 6 (Spring 1999), 1-24

‘Pinchpenny diplomacy: the decline of “good international citizenship” in Canadian foreign policy,’ International Journal 54 (Winter 1998-9), 88-105

‘Congress and Canada,’ in Robert A. Pastor and Rafael Fernández de Castro, eds., The Controversial Pivot: The U.S. Congress and North America  (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 1998), 50-69

Richard A. Higgott and KRN, ‘Australia and the search for a security community in the 1990s,’ in Emanuel Adler and Michael Barnett, eds., Security Communities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 265-94

‘The rage of nations: Australia and French nuclear testing and Hong Kong and the Diaoyutai/Senkaku-shoto,’ Pacifica Review 10:3 (October 1998), 187-202

‘An ambassador by any other name?  Provincial representatives abroad,’ in Robert Wolfe, ed., Diplomatic Missions: The Ambassador in Canadian Foreign Policy (Kingston: Queen’s University School of Policy Studies, 1998), 161-73

‘Comparing Australian and Canadian responses,’ in Stephen Alomes and Michael Provis, eds., French Worlds, Pacific Worlds: French Nuclear Testing in Australia’s Backyard (Port Melbourne: Institute for Australian Studies, Deakin University, 1998), 113-29

‘Roland goes corporate: mercenaries and transnational security corporations in the post-Cold War era,’ Civil Wars 1 (Spring 1998), 16-35

Lori Buck, Nicole Gallant, and KRN, ‘Sanctions as a gendered instrument of statecraft: the case of Iraq,’ Review of International Studies 24 (January 1998), 69-84

‘Playing the international card?  The view from Australia, Canada, and the United States,’ in Gerard A. Postiglione and James T.H. Tang, eds., Hong Kong’s Reunion with China: The Global Dimensions (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997), 79-101

Louis F. Nastro and KRN, ‘The commitment-capability gap: implications for Canadian foreign policy in the post-Cold War era,’ Canadian Defence Quarterly 27 (Autumn 1997), 19-22

‘“Without regard for the interests of others”: Canada and American unilateralism in the post-Cold War era,’ American Review of Canadian Studies 27 (Summer 1997), 179-97

Richard A. Higgott and KRN, ‘The international politics of liminality: relocating Australia in the Asia Pacific,’ Australian Journal of Political Science 32 (July 1997), 169-85

‘A high degree of ambiguity: Hong Kong as an international actor after 1997,’ Pacific Review 10:1 (1997), 84-103

KRN and Richard Stubbs, ‘Mahathir’s Malaysia: an emergent middle power?’ in Andrew F. Cooper, ed., Niche Diplomacy: Middle Powers in the Post-Cold War Era (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), 147-63

Andrew F. Cooper and KRN, ‘The middle powers in the Gulf coalition: Australia, Canada, and the Nordics compared,’ in Andrew Bennett, Joseph Lepgold, and Danny Unger, eds., Friends in Need: Burden Sharing in the Persian Gulf War (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1997), 269-95

‘Anything but provincial: the provinces and foreign affairs,’ in Christopher Dunn, ed., Provinces: Canadian Provincial Politics (Toronto: Broadview Press, 1996), 503-518

George MacLean and KRN, ‘Building bridges for trade: the economic impact of Ontario-China relations,’ in Jayant Lele and Kwasi Ofori-Yeboah, eds., Unravelling the Asian Miracle: Explorations in Development Strategies, Geopolitics and Regionalism (Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth, 1996), 203-17

‘Australian and Canadian policy towards Southeast Asia,’ in David Wurfel and Bruce Burton, eds., Southeast Asia in the New World Order: The Political Economy of a Dynamic Region (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996), 186-203

‘The democratization of Canadian foreign policy: the elusive ideal,’ in Maxwell A. Cameron and Maureen Appel Molot, eds., Canada Among Nations, 1995: Democracy and Foreign Policy (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1995), 29-43

‘Rationality and non-rationality in Canadian defence policy,’ in David B. Dewitt and David Leyton-Brown, eds., Canada’s International Security Policy (Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada, 1995), 351-64

‘Seeing things?  The adornment of “security” in Australia and Canada,’ Australian Journal of International Affairs 49 (May 1995), 33-47

‘The PM and the SSEA in Canada’s foreign policy: dividing the territory, 1968-1993,’ International Journal 50 (Winter 1994-5), 189-208

‘The politics of circumspection: Canadian policy towards the Soviet Union, 1985-1991,’ International Journal of Canadian Studies 9 (Spring 1994), 27-45

‘Quantum leaping: the Gulf debate in Australia and Canada,’ in Michael McKinley, ed., The Gulf War: Critical Perspectives (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1994), 48-71

‘The democratization of Canadian foreign policy?’ Canadian Foreign Policy 1 (Fall 1993), 95-104

‘Contending explanations for the amalgamation of External Affairs,’ in Donald Story, ed., The Canadian Foreign Service in Transition (Toronto: Scholars’ Press, 1993), 37-58

George MacLean and KRN, ‘Triangular dynamics: Australian states, Canadian provinces, and relations with China,’ in Brian Hocking, ed., Foreign Relations and Federal States (London: Leicester University Press, 1993), 170-89

Richard A. Higgott and KRN, ‘Policy convergence and bureaucratic learning: trade and foreign affairs,’ in Patrick Weller, John Forster and Glyn Davis, eds., Reforming the Public Service: Lessons from Recent Experience (Melbourne: Macmillan Australia, 1993), 148-63

‘Middle power diplomacy in the changing Asia-Pacific order: Australia and Canada compared,’ in Richard Leaver and James L. Richardson, eds., The Post-Cold War Order: Diagnoses and Prognoses (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993), 210-23; republished in North America as Charting the Post-Cold War Order (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993)

‘The limits of linking aid and trade to human rights,’ in Mark Charlton and Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon, eds., Cross Currents: International Relations in the Post-Cold War Era (Toronto: Nelson Canada, 1993), 443-50

‘The impact of provincial governments on Canadian foreign policy,’ in Douglas M. Brown and Earl H. Fry, eds., States and Provinces in the International Economy (Berkeley, CA: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, University of California at Berkeley, 1993), 233-43

‘Nobody's winning in the taxi business these days,' Toronto Star, 29 August 1974



Downloadable Conference Papers

"Making Sense of Afghanistan: The Domestic Politics of International Stabilization Missions in Australia and Canada," Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 5 July 2010

Alan Bloomfield and KRN, “End of an Era? Anti-Americanism in the Australian Labor Party,” Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North America, Austin, Texas, 28 February-1 March 2008

"The Unavoidable Shadow of Past Wars: Obsequies for Casualties of the Afghanistan War in Australia and Canada," Canadian Political Science Association, Vancouver, 6 June 2008, and Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, 1-3 July 2008

Ann Capling and KRN, "The Rise and Fall of Chapter 11: Investor-State Dispute Mechanisms in the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement," Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Canberra, 14-16 July 2004, subsequently published as “Blowback: Investor-State Dispute Mechanisms in International Trade Agreements,” Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions 19 (April 2006): 151-72

KRN and Phillip J. Wood, "The Raggedness of Prison Privatization: Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States Compared," Prisons 2004 Conference on Prisons and Penal Policy: International Perspectives, City University, London, 23 June 2004

“Upper Hand Down Under: American Politics and the Australia-U.S. Free Trade Agreement,” Australia and New Zealand Studies Association of North America, Toronto, 20 February 2004

Todd Hataley and KRN, "Putting People at Risk: The Crisis in East Timor and Canada's Human Security Agenda," Canadian Political Science Association, Halifax, 31 May 2003; subsequently published as T.S. Hataley and KRN, "The Limits of the Human Security Agenda: The Case of Canada’s Response to the Timor Crisis," Global Change, Peace, and Security 16:1 (February 2004), 5-17.

Ann Capling and KRN, "Death of Distance or Tyranny of Distance? The Internet, Deterritorialization, and the Anti-Globalization Movement in Australia," International Political Science Association, Quebec, 1 August 2000; subsequently published in The Pacific Review (2001)

"Canadian Studies in a Post-National Era: The Case of International Relations," Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 1-4 July 2000; also see "Home-Grown IR: The Canadianization of International Relations,' Journal of Canadian Studies 35 (Spring 2000), 95-114

“Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater?  Huntington’s Civilizational Theory and the ‘Kin-Country’ Thesis,” conference on Shaping Nations: Federalism and Society in Australia and Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, 8-9 December 1999

“Life with Uncle Revisited: The United States and the Issue of Leadership,” conference on A Matter of Interpretation: German and Canadian Perspectives on the Franco-American Security Relationship, Queen’s University International Study Centre, Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, England, 3-4 December 1999; subsequently published as: 'Life with uncle revisited: the United States and the issue of leadership,' in David G. Haglund, ed., The France-US Leadership Race: Closely Watched Allies (Kingston: Queen's Quarterly Press, 2000), 157-79

"Lonely Superpower or Unapologetic Hyperpower? Analyzing American Power in the Post-Cold War Era," South African Political Studies Association, Saldanha, Western Cape, 29 June-2 July 1999

"Tales That Textbooks Tell: Ethnocentricity and Diversity in American Introductions to International Relations,’ Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, 9-11 July 1998; subsequently published as 'Tales that textbooks tell: ethnocentricity and diversity in American introductions to international relations,' in Robert M. Crawford and Darryl Jarvis, eds., International Relations: Still an American Social Science? Towards Diversity in International Thought (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000)

"Liberal-Democratic Regimes and the Effectiveness of International Sanctions: Does Regime Type Make a Difference?" Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, 2 June 1998; subsequently published as: ‘Liberal-democratic regimes, international sanctions, and global governance,’ in Raimo Väyrynen, ed., Global Governance and Enforcement: Issues and Strategies (Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield, 1999), 127-49

‘Roland goes corporate: mercenaries and transnational security corporations in the post-Cold War era,’ Conference on Non-State Actors and Authority in the Global System, University of Warwick, England, 31 October 1997

‘The rage of nations: the cases of Australia and French nuclear testing and Hong Kong and the Diaoyutai/Senkaku-shoto dispute,’ Canadian Political Science Association, St John’s, 9 June 1997

Lori Buck, Nicole Gallant, and KRN, ‘Sanctions as a gendered instrument of statecraft,’ British International Studies Association, Durham, 16-18 December 1996



Contact

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