Laurie Beaudonnet, PhD (European University Institute)
Research interests
Laurie Beaudonnet is a post-doctoral fellow at the European Union Center of Excellence, Université de Montréal - McGill University.
Her current research focuses on how political values and the perceptions of public policies affect political support and voting behavior in multilevel systems, as well as on the effect of the current economic crisis on public opinion in Europe.
In addition to this research, she is working on political party strategies and voting behavior, as a post-doctoral fellow in the Making Electoral Democracy Work Project, at Université de Montréal (Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies). Her current work focuses on strategic voting and issue voting in the 2012 French legislative elections.
Her research and teaching interests include public opinion, comparative political behavior, party strategies, European integration, European identity, welfare regimes and quantitative methods.
Selected publications
“You Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds You: The Impact Of Redistribution On Attitudes Towards Europe". http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nh085bd
‘Beyond Euro-skepticism: Understanding attitudes towards the EU’, Beaudonnet, Laurie and Danilo Di Mauro (eds), European Integration online Papers EIoP), Special Issue 2, Vol. 16, Article 9. http://eiop.or.at/eiop/index.php/eiop/issue/view/30
Personal webpage: http://umontreal.academia.edu/LaurieBeaudonnet
Jason Ferrell, PhD (McGill)
jason [dot] ferrell [at] mcgill [dot] ca
Research interests
Jason Ferrell teaches courses in political theory, the history of political thought, and international relations. His research interests concern moral pluralism and value conflict; the political thought of Isaiah Berlin; and distributive justice. His articles and book reviews have appeared in Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, Political Studies Review, Australian Journal of Political Science, and Slavic and East European Journal. He also contributed the ‘Glossary of Names’ to the second edition of Isaiah Berlin’s Russian Thinkers, and assisted Henry Hardy with research for the second volume of Berlin’s correspondence, Enlightening: Letters 1946-1960.
Selected publications:
‘Isaiah Berlin as Essayist,’ Political Theory, 40(5), October 2012, 602–628.
‘Isaiah Berlin: Pluralism and Liberalism in Theory and Practice,’ Contemporary Political Theory, 8 (3), August 2009, 295-316.
- Winner of the Contemporary Political Theory Annual Prize for 2009
‘The alleged relativism of Isaiah Berlin,’ Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 11 (1), March 2008, 41-56.
Imad Mansour, PhD (McGill)
imad [dot] mansour [at] mcgill [dot] ca
Research
Includes foreign policy analysis, regional orders, protracted conflicts and rivalries, comparative political economy, governance statecraft and diplomacy, and Middle East politics.
Teaching
In 2009, he received Honourable Mention in the McGill’s Arts Undergraduate Society’s 2008-2009 Excellence in Teaching Award.
Courses Taught:
- POLI 244 (International Politics: State Behaviour)
- POLI 341 (Foreign Policy: the Middle East)
- POLI 347 (The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Crisis, War, and Peace)
- POLI 351 (International Politics: Conflict, Crisis, and War)
Supervised Courses:
- Ideological Sources of Iran’s Foreign Policy
- Impact of the Bonyads on Iran’s Foreign Policy
- Kurdish Dimension in Turkish-American Relations
Select Publications
Imad Mansour, “Washington and Hezbollah: A Rare Convergence of Interests,” Middle East Policy 17, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 82-104.
Imad Mansour, “Is it Time for Political Change in Iran? Looking for Indicators in Society’s Activism,” McGill Foreign Affairs Review 2, no. 1 (Winter 2010): 6-11.
Imad Mansour, “Iran and Instability in the Middle East: How Preferences Influence the Regional Order,” International Journal 63, no. 4 (Autumn 2008): 941-964.
Outside Academia
He is involved in consultancy contracts, particularly in the fields of Public Policy Research and Microfinance. In 2009 he was senior consultant on a study to build a Policy Research Institute serving the Middle East region. Also in 2009 he took part in a study on ways to expand microfinance services in Syria.
Julie M. Norman, PhD (American University)
Research interests
Julie Norman teaches courses on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Middle East foreign policy, and human rights. She is the author of two books on unarmed resistance in Israel-Palestine, and she has also published on media activism, legal advocacy, and urban planning in the Middle East. Other research interests include international law, refugees, and prison/detention policies.
Selected Publications:
Nonviolent Resistance: Activism and Advocacy in the Second Intifada, eds. Maia Carter Hallward and Julie M. Norman. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.
The Second Palestinian Intifada: Civil Resistance. London: Routledge, 2010.
“Creative Activism: Youth Media in Palestine.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 2. (2009) 251-274.
"Got Trust? The Challenge of Gaining Access in Conflict Zones." In Surviving research: Doing Research in Difficult and Violent Situations, ed. John C. King et al. New York: Routledge, 2009.