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Proposal for a Study on the Environmental Assessment Of JOHN J. KIRTON CURRICULUM VITAE November 20, 2015 A. Biographical Information 1. Personal Home Address 91 Roe Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5M 2H6 [email protected] (416) 485-5011 University Address Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1 [email protected] (416) 946-8953 2. Degrees BA Political Science, University of Toronto, 1971 MA International Affairs, Carleton University, 1973 PhD International Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1977. Thesis: “The Conduct and Co-ordination of Canadian Government Decision-Making Towards the United States,” Supervisor: Professor Roger Swanson. 3. Employment Full Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, 2015- Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, 1982-2015 Appointment to Graduate School, 1983 Tenure awarded, 1982 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto, 1977-82 Previous Academic Appointments Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, University of British Columbia, 1976-77 4. Professional Affiliations and Activities Director, G8 Research Group, May 1987-Present Co-director, G20 Research Group, April 2008-Present Co-director, Global Health Diplomacy Program, October 2007-Present Co-director, BRICS Research Group, September 2011-Present Co-editor, Global Environmental Governance Series, Ashgate Publishing, 2001-Present Co-editor, Global Governance Series, Ashgate Publishing, 2014-Present Co-editor, Global Finance Series, Ashgate Publishing, 2002-2014 John J. Kirton Visiting Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs, September 1, 2012-June 30, 2013 Visiting Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan, April 1-July 31, 2013 Non-resident Senior Fellow, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, October 1, 2013-present B. Academic History 1. Research Endeavours Global Governance, G8 Governance, G20 Governance, BRICS Governance, Global Finance, Global Environmental Governance, Global Health Governance, Canadian Foreign Policy C. Scholarly and Professional Work 1. Refereed Publications a. Refereed Articles “BRICS Summit Performance,” International Organisations Research Journal 10(2) (2015). (with Marina Larionova), “Introduction,” International Organisations Research Journal 9(4): 7-9 (2014). (with Julia Kulik), “G8 Regional Security Governance through Sanctions and Force,” International Organisations Research Journal 9(4): 89-114 (2014). (with Caroline Bracht and Julia Kulik), “G8-G20 Inclusive Multilevel Food Governance,” International Organisations Research Journal 9(4): 64-72 (2014). (with Caroline Bracht and Julia Kulik), “The Political Process in Global Health Governance: The G8’s 2010 Muskoka Initiative,” in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 40 (2014): 1-15. (with Julia Kulik and Caroline Bracht), “Generating Global Health Governance through BRICS Summitry,” Contemporary Politics 20(2): 146-162 (June 2014). (with Julia Kulik, Caroline Bracht and Jenilee Guebert), “Connecting Climate Change and Health through Global Summitry,” World Medical and Health Policy Journal 6(1): 73-100 (April 2014). (with Alafia T. Samuels and Jenilee Guebert), “Monitoring Compliance with High-Level Commitments in Health: The Case of the CARICOM Summit on Chronic Non- Communicable Diseases,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 92(4): 270-276B (April 2014). “Growing G20 Governance for a Globalized World,” Global Review (Spring 2014): 101- 124 (originally published in Chinese in September 2013). “Vulnerable America, Capable Canada: Convergent Leadership for an Interconnected World,” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 18(1) (March 2012): 133-144. (with Jenilee Guebert), “North American Health Governance: Shocks, Summitry and Societal Support,” NorteAmerica 5(1): 221-224 (January-June 2010). (with Jenilee Guebert), “Canada’s G8 Health Diplomacy,” Canadian Foreign Policy 15 (3: 2009): 85-107. November 30/15 2 John J. Kirton (with Nick Roudev and Laura Sunderland), “Making G8 Leaders Deliver: An Analysis of Compliance and Health Commitments, 1996-2006, Bulletin of the World Health Organization 85(3): 192-199 (March 2007). “Explaining Compliance with G8 Finance Commitments: Agency, Institutionalization and Structure,” Open Economies Review 17 (December 2006): 459-475. “NAFTA’s Trade-Environment Regime and its Commission for Environmental Co- operation: Contributions and Challenges Ten Years On,” Canadian Journal of Regional Science 25:2 (Summer 2003): 135-163. “Canada’s Kananaskis G8 Summit: What Can and Should be Done?” Canadian Foreign Policy 9 (June 2002): 31-48. “Guess Who is Coming to Kananaskis: Civil Society and the G8 in Canada’s Year as Host,” International Journal 57 (Winter 2001-2): 101-122. “Canada as a Principal Financial Power: G7 and IMF Diplomacy in the Crisis of 1997-9,” International Journal 54 (Autumn 1999): 603-624. (with Alan Rugman, “NAFTA, Environmental Regulations and International Business Strategies,” Global Focus 11(4) (1999). (with Alan Rugman), “Regional Environmental Impacts of NAFTA on the Automotive Sector,” Canadian Journal of Regional Science 21 (Summer 1999): 227-254. (with Alan Rugman), “Multinational Enterprise Strategy and the NAFTA Trade and Environment Regime,” Journal of World Business 33(4) 1998: 438-454. (with Ella Kokotsis), “Revitalizing the G7: Prospects for the 1998 Birmingham Summit of the Eight,” International Journal 53 (Winter 1997-8): 38-56. “NAFTA’s Commission for Environmental Co-operation and Canada-US Environmental Relations,” American Review of Canadian Studies 27 (Winter 1997): 459-486. (with Alan Rugman and Julie Soloway), “Canadian Corporate Strategy in a North American Region,” American Review of Canadian Studies 27 (Summer 1997): 199- 219. “Le Rôle du G7 dans le couple intégration régionale/sécurité globale,” Études Internationales 28 (Juin 1997): 255-270. “Canada and APEC: Contributions and Challenges,” Asia-Pacific Papers 3 (April 1997). “Une ouverture sur le monde: La nouvelle politique étrangère canadienne du gouvernement Chrétien,” Études Internationales 27 (June 1996): 257-279. “The Diplomacy of Concert: Canada, the G7 and the Halifax Summit,” Canadian Foreign Policy 3(1): 63-80 (Spring 1995). “Promoting Plurilateral Partnership: Managing United States — Canada Relations in the Post Cold War Period,” American Review of Canadian Studies (Winter 1994): 453- 472. “Exercising Concerted Leadership: Canada’s Approach to Summit Reform, “The International Spectator 29 (April-June 1994): 161-177. “National Mythology and Media Coverage: Mobilizing Consent for Canada’s War in the Gulf,” Political Communication 10 (December 1993): 425-441. “A New Global Partnership: Canada-U.S. Relations in the Clinton Era,” Canadian- American Public Policy 15 (November 1993): 1-46. “Canadian Space Policy,” Space Policy 6 (February 1990): 61-71. “Une coquille vide: Le Canada, puissance spatiale internationale, 1945-1988,” Études Internationales 19 (September 1988): 477-492. November 30/15 3 John J. Kirton “An Uncertain Take-off: The North American Space Industry in the 1990s,” International Journal 42 (Winter 1986-87): 138-169. (with Blair Dimock), “Domestic Access to Government in the Canadian Foreign Policy Process, 1968-1982,” International Journal 39 (Winter 1983-84): 68-98. “The Politics of Bilateral Management: The Case of the Canada — United States Automotive Trade,” International Journal 36 (Winter 1980-1981): 39-69. “Les Constraintes du milieu et la gestion de la politique étrangère canadienne de 1976 à 1978,” Études Internationales 10 (juin 1979): 321-350. “Foreign Policy Decision-Making in the Trudeau Government: Promise and Performance,” International Journal 33 (Spring 1978): 287-311. b. Refereed Books and Chapters Refereed Books (with Ella Kokotsis), The Global Governance of Climate Change: G7, G20 and UN Leadership (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), 385 pp. G20 Governance for a Globalized World (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), 495 pp. Canadian Foreign Policy in a Changing World (Toronto: Thomson-Nelson, 2007), 562 pp. (with Alan Rugman and Julie Soloway), Environmental Regulations and Corporate Strategy: A NAFTA Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 258 pp. (with Raphael Fernandez de Castro), NAFTA’s Institutions: The Environmental Potential and Performance of the NAFTA Free Trade Commission and Related Bodies (Montreal: Commission for Environmental Co-operation, 1997), 76 pp. (with David Dewitt), Canada as a Principal Power: A Study in Foreign Policy and International Relations (Toronto: John Wiley, 1983), 485 pp. Refereed Chapters (with Andreas Freytag), “Pushed toward Partnership: Increasing Co-operation between the Bretton Woods Bodies,” in Raphael Biermann and Joachim Koops, eds., Palgrave Handbook on Inter-Organizational Relations (London: Palgrave Macmillan). In press. (with Julia Kulik and Caroline Bracht), “G20 Social Governance,” in Alexandra Kaasch and Kerstin Martens, eds., Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press). (with Marina Larionova), “Introduction,” in Marina Larionova and John J. Kirton, eds., The G8-G20 Relationship for Global Governance (Farnham: Ashgate). “Changing Global Governance for a Transformed World,” in Marina Larionova and John J. Kirton, eds., The G8-G20 Relationship for Global Governance (Farnham: Ashgate). “Working Together: The Muskoka-Toronto Twin Summits,” in Marina Larionova and John J. Kirton, eds., The G8-G20 Relationship
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