Notes on Contributors

Mehdi Abbas

is a lecturer in Political Economy at University of Grenoble-Alpes (UGA) in France and research fellow at the Pacte Laboratory, CNRS. He holds a PhD in International Economics. His teaching and research are related to the international political economy, multilateral trade regulation and WTO negotiations and the stakes and problems of international development for the least developed countries. He also developed a research agenda on the climate- energy-trade nexus in the global economy. He has lectured as an invited professor at several research and academic institutions in Canada, Algeria, Lebanon and Senegal. He is an associate researcher within the CEIM (UQAM, Canada) and the CACID (Dakar, Senegal) and worked as an external expert for the OIF (International Organization of the Francophonie).

Yasmeen Abu-Laban

is professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights at the University of Alberta. She is also a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Her published research addresses themes relating to ethnic and gender politics, nationalism, globalization and processes of racialization, immigration policies and politics, surveillance and border control, and multiculturalism and anti-racism. She served as President of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) from 2016 to 2017 and as Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) from 2018 to 2021.

Walter Arévalo-Ramírez

is professor of Public International Law at the Law Faculty of Universidad del Rosario (Colombia) and professor at the Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign Relations of the Republic of Colombia. He holds a Master’s in International Law from Stetson University College of Law, a PhD in Law summa cum laude from Universidad del Rosario and a Diploma in Maritime Spaces and International Water Courses of The Hague Academy of International Law. Fellow of the international law Fellowship of the United Nations, Office of Legal Affairs, he was also a visiting researcher at The Hague University for Applied Sciences, at the Arctic University of Norway (JCLOS) and at the University of Copenhagen (iCourts). He is director of the Latin American Network of International Law Journals (RELAREDI) and party in several amicus curiae before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Bertrand Badie

is a French political scientist specializing in international relations. He is professor emeritus of universities at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (France) and associate professor/researcher at the Centre for International Studies and Research. He was director of the Press Collections of Sciences Po (1994–2003) and of the Rotary Centre for International Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution (2001–2005). He is the author of some twenty books, including La fin des Territoires (1995, reprint 2014), The Impotence of Power (2004, re-ed. 2013) and, more recently, Le temps des humiliés, pathologie des relations internationales (2019). He stood as program co-chair for the IPSA World Congress of Political Science of 2021. He has also been advisor to the editorial staff of the world economic and geopolitical directory L’état du monde for the past twenty years and has established himself as an expert in international relations.

Elizabeth Bloodgood

is an associate professor and Chair of Political Science at Concordia University, Montreal (Canada). Her research focuses on the emergence, operations and demise of NGOs in response to national regulatory and economic conditions. Current projects include the theoretical development of new transnational advocacy (with Christopher Pallas), the global roles of interest groups (with Lisa Dellmuth), agent-based modeling of NGOs (with Emily Clough) and building a global NGO database (with Wendy Wong, Michael Lenczner and Jesse Bourns). Her work, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the International Studies Association (ISA) and the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et Culture (FRQSC), has been published in the Review of International Studies, European Political Science Review, Interest Groups & Advocacy, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ) and Voluntas.

Cecilia Cannon

directs the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Executive Master’s in International Negotiation and Policy-making and the Summer Programme on the United Nations and global challenges. She served as Academic Adviser to the United Nations for its 75th anniversary in 2020. Her research focuses on the design, reform and effectiveness of international organizations, the science-international policy interface, the role and influence of nonstate actors in international policy processes, and migration policy. She served as Head of Research for the Global Governance Centre until December 2017. She additionally advises governments, nongovernmental organizations, businesses and international organizations on their policy research, advocacy, monitoring and evaluation projects. She obtained a PhD in International Relations/ Political Science at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

Norbert Eschborn

was appointed Director of the KAS office in Canada in August 2019. Until June 2019, he headed the Myanmar office of KAS and, from 2007 until 2011, managed the office in Korea. From 2007 until 2011, he served as Head of the Evaluation Division in the European and International Cooperation Department of KAS and served as the Foundation’s representative to Indonesia and East Timor (2002) and Thailand (1997–2001). He began his career as a journalist and later became a researcher at the Institute of Political Science of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. His publications include articles and books on the development strategies of ASEAN countries, EUASEAN relations, the role of the German political foundations in development cooperation, the political system of Thailand as well as aspects of the political and legal reform processes in Thailand and Indonesia. He also served as principal private secretary to a leading German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament.

Admiral Lutz Feldt

is a Vice Admiral (retd.) of the German Navy. He joined the Navy in 1965 and retired after 41 years in the Armed Forces as Chief of Naval Staff. Since then, he focuses his activities on the broad spectrum of maritime security and defence issues. He is the President of EuroDefense Germany, an NGO supporting the Common Security and Defence Policy of the European Union.

Kim Fontaine-Skronski

is Executive Director of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) based at Concordia University. Previously, she worked as Deputy Director of the Montreal Institute of International Studies (IEIM) at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She holds a PhD in Political Science from Laval University and a Master’s degree from McGill University. With more than twenty years of experience in the political and academic fields, she served as Political Adviser to the Minister of Culture and Communications of Quebec (2003–2007) and worked in the Political and Cultural Affairs Section at the Canadian Embassy in Austria (1999–2001). In 2015, she co-edited a book on the structural changes of global governance in the 21st Century. She served as Vice-President of the United Nations Association in Canada (UNAC), Greater Montreal branch (2019–2022), and sat on the national board as regional representative for Québec (2020–2021).

Emnet Berhanu Gebre

is a consultant and researcher specializing in migrant protection and assistance based in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia. She obtained her PhD in Public Law at Toulouse University (France) in 2016, where she presented a thesis entitled The International Protection of Persons Displaced Due to Climate Change. She completed a research and teaching fellowship at Toulouse University from 2010 to 2015 and was consultant to the UN Migration Agency (OIM) in the fields of “Migration, Environment and Climate Change” (2017), “Assistance to Vulnerable Migrants” (2019) and “Capacity Development for Migrant Protection” (2019).

María Teresa Gutiérrez-Haces

holds a specialization in Development Economics from the University of Leuven, Belgium, as well as a Master’s in Economic Planning from the University of Antwerp and a PhD in Political Studies, with a focus on International Relations, from the University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris III. She is a tenured researcher at the Institute of Economic Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and teaches at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the UNAM on “Foreign Economic Policy in North America,” “Economic Integration of North America” and “Mexico-Canada Relations in NAFTA.” She is a member of the National System of Researchers Level II of the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT).

Patrícia Iglecias

is an associate professor at the Law School of the University of São Paulo. She holds an habilitation to supervise PhD and Master’s students from the same university. She is also in charge of the United Nations’ Cities Program at this university. She is the former State of São Paulo Environmental Secretary and Former Head of Environmental Affairs of the University of São Paulo. She is the CEO of the CETESB (State of São Paulo Environmental Company).

Christopher Isike

is a professor of African Politics and Development in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His teaching and research interests revolve around the quality of women’s political representation in Africa, women and peace-building in Africa, African immigration to South Africa, human security, human factor development in Africa, African soft power politics and development dynamics. A C3-rated researcher by South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF), he has published scores of articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He consults for the UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women and the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government on gender equality and women’s empowerment issues in the province. He is the current President of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS) and served as Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) from 2018 until 2021.

Marianne Kneuer

joined the TU Dresden in October 2021 as full professor of Comparative Politics. Previously, she was full professor of Comparative Politics and International Relations at the University of Hildesheim (2011–2021), where she also held the position of Director of the Institute of Social Sciences between 2012 and 2019. In 2018, she co-founded the Centre for Digital Change at the University of Hildesheim and served as its Board Member. She was a research fellow at GIGA, Hamburg, and Arizona State University, USA. Between 2005 and 2011, she substituted chairs of Comparative Politics at the Universities of Erfurt, Darmstadt and Hagen. After obtaining her doctorate at the University of Bonn in 1991 and before returning to academia, Marianne Kneuer worked as a political journalist (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and, from 1994 to 1999, she was a member of the planning staff and speech writer of Federal President Roman Herzog.

Henri-Paul Normandin

has engaged in diplomacy and international development for almost 40 years. He served as Ambassador of Canada to Haiti as well as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He worked for several years in China and also managed a portfolio of programs in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Having spearheaded innovative undertakings in the fields of democracy, human rights, environment and in urban diplomacy with the City of Montréal as director of its international bureau, he is currently a Fellow at the Montreal Institute of International Studies (IEIM). He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from McGill University and served as a legal aid lawyer in Québec. He also holds a Master’s in Political Science (International Relations) from the University of Ottawa.

Michèle Rioux

has been a full professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) since 2006. Director of the Centre for Studies on Integration and Globalization (CEIM) since 2011, she was CEIM’s research director from 2003 to 2010. She was an Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor, MAPP consortium, at the Barcelona Institute of Interna-tional Studies in 2013. A specialist in international political economy, her research focuses on international organizations and global governance, transnational firms, competition, the information society and telecommunications sector, economic integration and regionalism, e-commerce, and digital and cultural industries.

Guy Saint-Jacques

is a diplomat and has held offices in New York, Mexico City, Kinshasa and Hong Kong as well as twice in Washington, DC. He also served as Deputy High Commissioner at the High Commission of Canada in London, UK, and was posted three times in Beijing. At Headquarters, he worked in the Consular Affairs, Francophone Africa and Science and Technology divisions, and as Executive Assistant to the Associate Deputy Minister. He also served as Deputy Director of the Energy and Environment division, as Director of the Assignments division, and as Director General of the Personnel Management Bureau. He served as Chief Negotiator and Ambassador for Climate Change for the Government of Canada and was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for Canada to the People’s Republic of China until October 2016. He now works as an adviser through his company GS+J Groupe-conseil Inc. and is a Senior Fellow at the China Institute of the University of Alberta as well as at the Montreal Institute of International Studies (IEIM).

Marcello Scarone

is a multilingual expert in social inclusion, human rights, political science, international relations, media and development, as well as freedom of expression and communication, with nearly 30 years of international experience in intergovernmental and civil society organizations, and several years of academic experience as a university professor. He spent almost twenty years as a senior official at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO, Paris, France), where he successively held the positions of Programme Specialist in the Programme for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace, Acting Chief of Section and Senior Programme Specialist in the Division of Human Rights, Social Inclusion and Struggle against Discrimination and, finally, Chief of Section, Latin America and the Caribbean, External Relations and Public Information Sector. Prior to joining UNESCO, he served for seven years as Chief of the International Organizations Section and Legal Adviser on Press Freedom at the International Press Institute (IPI) in Vienna, Austria.

Valériane Thool

is a PhD student at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her research focuses on foreign investment law and the protection of marine biodiversity. Since 2019, she has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Sherbrooke. She is Deputy Director of the Bureau d’assistance juridique internationale and a member of the Réseau des cliniques juridiques francophones. Previously, she was responsible for research and content at the Montreal Institute of International Studies (IEIM), where she coordinated the think tank’s activities. She worked at the law firms Hascoët et Associés in Paris, and Jimenez, Graffam & Lausell in Puerto Rico. Involved in the internationalist community, she has judged several international law moot court competitions. She is a board member of the Francophone Network of International Law. She was the valedictorian of her Master’s program and was awarded a scholarship from the Montreal Institute of International Studies (IEIM). She holds a Certificate from The Hague Academy of International Law (2014).

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