North America Experts
Canada Research Chair in International and Comparative Political Economy
Lecturer, Université de Sherbrooke;
Ph.D. Candidate, École nationale d'administration publique.
General Counsel, Cisco China, Cisco Systems Inc.
ExpertiseTechnology licensing; intellectual property law
Assistant Professor of Political Science, The University of Denver
I was raised in Evansville, Indiana, the son of a school teacher, attended college at Princeton University, where I studied Eastern religions and Western philosophy, then proceeded to the University of Chicago for graduate studies in The Committee on Social Thought. My Master’s work focused on the emergence of modern political economy from 18th century Scottish moral philosophy. For my...
Sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada (1979-80)
First elected to the House of Commons at the age of 32, Clark was elected Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada four years later. In 1979, he defeated Pierre Trudeau to become the youngest prime minister in Canadian history.His government was defeated on budget measures designed to establish fiscal responsibility and a new system of expenditure control. In its short term in office...
Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto
Following graduate studies at Oxford and the Sorbonne, Stephen Clarkson has been teaching political economy at the University of Toronto. His research there on the Soviet model of development resulted in two books: L'analyse soviétique des problèmes indiens du sous-développement (1978) and The Soviet Theory of Development: India and the Third World in Marxist-Leninist Schol...
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, Northern Illinois University
My teaching and scholarship have focused primarily on American relations with South and Southeast Asia. My first book was about John Hay, secretary of state when the United States annexed the Philippines. While many American historians had explored the annexation, few had examined American colonial rule. Therefore I decided to research the attitudes and ideas of one important gro...
Independent Scholar; Professor of Military History Emeritus, Air University
My interest in strategy and war colleges derives from a lifelong study of history, a dedication to the value of the past in preparing for the future, and a decade and half of teaching strategy and policy at American's military war colleges. I majored in history at Yale University, enjoying the subject while unaware of the preeminence of my professors. Upon graduation in 1961, I joined the U.S. Arm...
University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, MSU, UMBC
Expertise
U.S. foreign relations, especially U.S.-China relations
Chair and Professor in Politics, University of Hull, The United Kingdom
Since 1985 I have been studying free expression and political extremism in various democracies. I have published several books and dozens of articles analyzing pertinent concerns, most notably the trilogy The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance (1994), Speech, Media and Ethics (2001), and The Scope of Tolerance (2006). I have decided to enter into the field of free expression on the Internet becau...