Professor Clark received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto, her MA in Political Science from Carleton University and her Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Geography from the University of Waterloo.
David MacDonald
Email:
dmacdo03@uoguelph.ca
Field:
International Relations and Comparative Politics
Specialization:
Comparative Indigenous Politics in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United States, American foreign policy, New Zealand foreign policy, Anglo-American Diplomacy.
I have a PhD is in International Relations from the London School of Economics. I am an Associate Professor in the department. From 1999 to 2002 I was Assistant Visiting Professor at the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP EUROPE). From 2002 to 2007 I was a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. I also serve as a university Senator for CSAHS.
Current Project:
Professor MacDonald's research is focused on International Relations and American foreign policy. He also have a long-standing interest in comparative indigenous politics in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the US. His recent work is focused on the Anglosphere and the relationships between these aforementioned states. I am currently engaged in collaborative research with Peter Katzenstein, Brendon O’Connor, and several other academics on the connections between English-speaking countries in the Anglo-American world, primarily from a constructivist analysis.
His other primary focus is on indigenous politics in Canada, in particular an analysis of the Indian Residential Schools. He is interested in whether the UN Genocide Convention applies in Canada, and the ultimate future of efforts at truth and reconciliation in this country between those of Aboriginal, European, and more multicultural backgrounds. Dr. Macdonald has written three books. The first was on the former Yugoslavia, which is no longer an active focus of his research. His second book, Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide (2008) is a work of comparative politics. It features case studies of indigenous historical representation in America, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as case studies of Diaspora Chinese, Armenians, and Serbs. My third book Thinking History Fighting Evil (Lexington / Rowman & Littlefield, 2009) is on American domestic and foreign policy. He is currently co-authoring a political science textbook with Oxford University Press, and am co-editing a collection of essays on European identity with Wilfred Laurier Press.
Teaching Interests:
International Relations, Comparative Politics, US Foreign and Domestic politics, Politics of the Asia-Pacific, Nationalism and ethnic politics.
Recent Publications:
The Bush Leadership, the Power of Ideas and the War on Terror, co-edited with Dirk Nabers and Robert G. Patman (forthcoming 2011) Thinking History, Fighting Evil: Neoconservatives and the Perils of Historical Analogy in American Politics (Lexington / Rowman & Littlefield; 2009) Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation, (Routledge, 2008). The Ethics of Foreign Policy (London: Ashgate, 2007), book co-edited with R.G. Patman and B. Mason-Parker Balkan holocausts? Serbian and Croatian Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003)