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Priorities for Canada's Global Engagement: Washington vs. the 'rest of the world'

Tuesday, November 17, 2020 12:00to13:00

In this, the first of a series of events about the world after COVID-19,ÌýLes midis du Monde d’après, Jennifer Welsh, Daniel Béland, andÌýBen RowswellÌýwill be discussing priorities for Canada's global engagement. This event is hosted by the Max Bell School of Public Policy, Centre for International Peace and Security Studies, Centre de recherche en éthique and theÌý.

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Speakers

Jennifer Welsh

Jennifer M. Welsh is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ. She was previously Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. From 2013-2016, she served as the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, on the Responsibility to Protect. Read more about Welsh here.

Daniel Béland

Daniel Béland is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and James McGill Professor at theÌýDepartment of Political Science atÌýMcGill. A student of politics and public policy, he is currently working on research projects focusing on issues ranging from universal social policy and health care reform to the role of ideas in policy development and the relationship between fiscal policy and welfare state development.

Professor Béland holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), where he returned as a visiting scholar in the spring of 2014. A Part-Time Professor at the University of Southern Denmark from January 2014 to December 2017, he has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and the National University of Singapore, a visiting professor at the University of Bremen, the University of Helsinki, the University of Southern Denmark, and a Fulbright Scholar at The George Washington University and the National Academy of Social Insurance. Before joining Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in January 2019, he held a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) at the University of Saskatchewan (Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy). Read more aboutÌýBéland here.

Discussant

Ben Rowswell has been President and Research Director of the Canadian International Council since November 2018.

Prior to the CIC, Ben served as Canada’s Ambassador to Venezuela from 2014 to 2017. This capped a 25 year career as a professional diplomat including assignments in Canada’s embassies to Egypt, to the United States, and in Canada’s Permanent Mission to the UN. He served Canada’s first diplomatic envoy to Baghdad, Iraq, after the fall of Saddam Hussein from 2003 to 2005, as Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan and as head of the NATO Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar between 2008 and 2010. Read more about Rowswell .

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