I was pleased to accept an invitation from the Editors of Contexts to contribute to this special section on the Canada-USA relationship along with David Tindall (UBC) and Pallavi Bannerjee (Calgary). While not a cheery topic given the events of 2025 to this point, it is encouraging to see the ASA’s magazine providing a Canadian … Read more
Dr. Heather Dicks and I have a new article available via open access in STABILITY: International Journal of Security and Development. The article is “Aid Securitization and Violence Against Aid Workers”. Here’s the abstract: Abstract: Recent decades have witnessed a shift in development practice whereby donors increasingly provide aid to support security-related programming in the … Read more
My latest article is out in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Co-authored with Miriam Anderson (Toronto Metropolitan) and Brian Urlacher (University of North Dakota), the article examines factors influencing women’s participation in peace negotiations using longitudinal cross-national data over the period 1975-2020. The online early version is available now at: https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027251355747 or viewable below.
The targeting of USAID by the Trump/Musk Administration has been garnering a lot of attention (rightly so) and I have been sharing my thoughts on it with a number of media outlets. Here are a few stories that include some of my thoughts on the tragedy that is unfolding. The Hill Times (2025/02/12): The Kyiv … Read more
Heather Dicks (PhD Candidate, Memorial Sociology) and I have contributed a post on our ongoing research on the relationship of aid securitization and violence against aid and humanitarian workers to the new MUN-based academic blog Population and Security. Read the original post here: The post has also been translated and re-published on the UQAM-based Institut … Read more