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Geoffrey Hale is an associate professor of political science at the University of Lethbridge. He holds a PhD from the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Hale is coeditor of Borders and Bridges: Canada’s Policies in North Americaauthor of The Politics of Taxation in Canada; Uneasy Partnership: The Politics of Business and Government in Canada; and So Near and Yet So Far: Influencing American Policies towards Canada(forthcoming 2012), and numerous articles on various aspects of Canada-U.S. relations and Canada’s political economy.
Patrick James is a professor of international relations and director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California. Dr. James is the author or editor of 20 books and over 120 articles and book chapters. Among his honors and awards are the Thomas Enders Professorship in Canadian Studies at the University of Calgary, the Senior Scholar award from the Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC, and the Eccles Professor of the British Library. Dr. James served as president (2007–2009) of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States and serves as president of the International Council for Canadian Studies (2011–2013).
Joseph T. Jockel is professor and head of Canadian studies at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY. He is the author or coauthor of several books and many articles on Canadian defense policy and Canada-U.S. relations. His most recent book is Canada In Norad, 1957–2007: A History. He holds an MA in political science from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
John Kirton is an associate professor of political science, a research associate of the Centre for International Studies, and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Toronto. He has advised the Canadian government on G7 participation and international trade and sustainable development, and has written widely on G7/G8 summitry. John is also the director of the G8 Research Group, established at the University of Toronto in 1987. In 1992–1993, he served as a special projects officer in Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, devising a strategy for Canada’s G7 participation. He served on the Foreign Policy Committee of the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, an advisory body to the Prime Minister of Canada. He was a member of the Canadian Government’s International Trade Advisory Committee from 1995 to 1997. John is the principal investigator of “Strengthening Canada’s Environmental Community through International Regime Reform” (the EnviReform project). He is editor of the G8 and Global Governance Series published by Ashgate.