In this episode of The Global Exchange, Colin Robertson speaks to Dr. Jennifer Welsh and Dr. Roland Paris about promotion of democracies at home and abroad.
Read Dr. Welsh and Paris’ op-ed in the Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-worlds-democracies-including-canada-face-a-historic-choice/
R & R:
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar, https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/ayad-akhtar/homeland-elegies/9780316496421/
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5439.Interpreter_of_Maladies
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/165169/my-promised-land-by-ari-shavit/
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35036409-my-brilliant-friend
Wilderness and Rescue Medicine, 7th ed. by Jeffrey Isaac and David E. Johnson, https://www.wildmed.com/wilderness-and-rescue-medicine-7th-edition/
Participants Bio:
Roland Paris is Professor of International Affairs in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, founding director of the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), and former foreign and defence policy advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/1004/profile
Professor Jennifer M. Welsh is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). 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. https://www.mcgill.ca/politicalscience/jennifer-welsh
Host bio:
Colin Robertson is a former diplomat, and Vice President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, https://www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson
Recording Date: 23 July 2021.
Give 'The Global Exchange' a review on Apple Podcast!
Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin.
Head over to our website www.cgai.ca for more commentary.
Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips.
