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Joel Sokolsky
Professor
Political Science and Economics
Royal Military College of Canada
Dr. Sokolsky is a Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC). He holds a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. A native of Toronto, Dr. Sokolsky earned his Honours BA from the University of Toronto and an MA from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. From 2008 to 2013, he was Principal (Provost) of RMC. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Sokolsky was Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Head of the Department of Political Science and Chair of the War Studies Committee. He is a Senior Fellow at the Queen鈥檚 University Centre for International and Defence Policy and holds an appointment with the Queen鈥檚 Department of Political Studies. He is a Senior Analyst with Wikistrat.com. Dr. Sokolsky has served as a consultant to several government offices and represented Canada on the Secretariat Working Group of the NATO/Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes.
- B.A. University of Toronto
- M.A. Johns Hopkins
- Ph.D. Harvard
Recent Publications
- Christian Leuprecht, Joel J. Sokolsky and and Thomas Hughes. North American Strategic Defense in the 21st Century: Security and Sovereignty in an Uncertain World, Berlin: Springer, 2018.
- Christian Leuprecht, Joel J. Sokolsky and Jayson Derow, 鈥淧aying It Forward: Canada鈥檚 renewed commitment to NATO鈥檚 enhanced Forward Presence,鈥 International Journal, Vol, 74, No 1. (Winter 2019)
- Christian Leuprecht and Joel J. Sokolsky Multilateral Unilateralism: Europe鈥檚 Second Chance鈥n America鈥檚 Terms Ottawa, Konrad Adenhauer Shiftung 2021.
- Joseph T. Jockel and Joel J. Sokolsky, Canada in NATO, 1949-2019, Montreal , McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2021.
- Joel J. Sokolsky, 鈥淐anada: Very Civil Relations,鈥 Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, January 2021
- Joel J. Sokolsky, 鈥淭he International Fraternity of the Uniform: Implications for Civil鈥揗ilitary Relations,鈥 Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, March 2021
- Joel J. Sokolsky, 鈥淐anada鈥檚 NATO: Seventy Years of Commitment and Re-Commitment,鈥 in Murray, Robert W., Gecelovsky, Paul (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Canada in International Affairs, New York, Palgrave, 2021
Current Interests/Research:
- Canadian foreign and defence policy;
- International security relations; and
- American foreign and defence policy.