Politics in Canada: Culture, Institutions, Behaviour and Public Policy

Dr. Robert Jackson, a Canadian, is the Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor of Government and Director of International Relations at the University of Redlands in California. He also holds the positions of Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada; and Life Member/Fellow Clare Hall and Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, England. He is appointed as an Associate Fellow of Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs) in London. After receiving his doctorate in political science from the University of Oxford, he taught courses in Canadian, Comparative and International Relations at Carleton and McGill Universities for 35 years. His major books have sold over 200,000 copies and won several awards. Professor Jackson is the author and co-author of 36 books and some 50 articles in the fields of comparative, Canadian, and international politics. His latest book is Temptations of Power: the United States in Global Politics since 9/11, written with Dr. Philip Towle of the University of Cambridge. He is currently working on three projects: NATO in Afghanistan, North American Security Policy and NATO and Peacekeeping. Dr. Jackson has served as a senior policy advisor to two former Canadian Prime Ministers, a Deputy Prime Minister, and was on the Advisory Board of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade as well as having worked at various times for many other government agencies such as the Privy Council Office on topics such as parliamentary reform, terrorism and crisis management. Studying peacekeeping he has visited the Canadian military in practically every modern mission from Cyprus to the former Yugoslavia to Timor Leste, and has traveled to more than eighty countries. In 2007 he visited the Canadian Strategic Advisory Team in Kabul, Afghanistan and interviewed leading Afghan Cabinet members and politicians about its activities and the future of Afghanistan. He was appointed as well to the international advisory Board for the Centre on Conflict and Peace Studies, a Kabul think-tank that examines terrorism and advises governments on conflict analysis and prevention. He has recently interviewed military and civilian experts in London for his work on NATO in Afghanistan as part of his research at Chatham House.