About the Speaker
Stephen Saideman holds the Paterson Chair in International Affairs at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. He has written four books: The Ties That Divide: Ethnic Politics, Foreign Policy and International Conflict; For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism and War (with R. William Ayres); NATO in Afghanistan: Fighting Together, Fighting Alone (with David Auerswald); and now Adapting in the Dust: Lessons Learned from Canada’s War in Afghanistan, as well as articles and chapters on nationalism, ethnic conflict, civil war, and civil-military relations.
Prof. Saideman’s research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Canadian of National Defense, and the Social Science Research Council in cooperation with Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. He is also a Canadian Global Affairs Institute Fellow. Prof. Saideman writes online at OpenCanada.org, Political Violence at a Glance, Duck of Minerva and his own site saideman.blogspot.com; he also tweets at @smsaideman.
He has won two awards for teaching and one for mentoring other faculty. He is currently working on the role of legislatures in civil-military relations in democracies around the world as well as on projects relating to the domestic and international dynamics of ethnic conflict.
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