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Kim Richard Nossal
Professor Emeritus
Political Studies Department
Kim Richard Nossal went to school in Melbourne, Beijing, Toronto, and Hong Kong and attended the University of Toronto, receiving his PhD in 1977. In 1976 he joined the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, where he taught international relations and Canadian foreign policy and served as chair of the department in 1989鈥90 and 1992鈥1996. In 2001, he came to Queen鈥檚 University, heading the Department of Political Studies until 2009. He served as director of the Centre for International and Defence Policy from 2011 to 2013, and from 2017-2019. From 2013 to 2015, he was the executive director of the Queen鈥檚 School of Policy Studies.
He was editor of International Journal, the quarterly journal of the Canadian International Council, Canada's institute of international affairs (1992-1997), and was president of the Canadian Political Science Association (2005-2006). He served as chair of the academic selection committee of the Security and Defence Forum of the Department of National Defence from 2006 to 2012. In 2017 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Royal Military College of Canada and in 2019 he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He retired from Queen鈥檚 in 2020.
- B.A. University of Toronto (1972)
- M.A. University of Toronto (1974)
- Ph.D. University of Toronto (1977)
Selected Publications:
- Jean-Christophe Boucher and KRN, The Politics of War: Canada鈥檚 Afghanistan Mission, 2001鈥14 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017).
- 鈥楾he Benefits of Foreign Policy Bipartisanship Revisited: Lessons from Two Canadian Cases,鈥 Australian Journal of International Affairs(2017)
- Charlie Foxtrot: Fixing Defence Procurement in Canada (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2016).
- KRN, St茅phane Roussel and St茅phane Paquin, The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, 4th ed. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-成人大片 Press, 2015).
- 'Shadows of the Past: Commemorating the Fallen in Australia and Canada,' in Australia and Canada in Afghanistan: Perspectives on a Mission, eds. Jack Cunningham and William Maley (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2015), 186鈥217.鈥ㄢ
- '"No Repercussions Down Under"? Australian Responses to Kristallnacht,' in Violence, Memory and History: Western Perceptions of Kristallnacht, eds. Colin McCullough and Nathan Wilson (New York: Routledge, 2015), 130鈥50.
- KRN and Leah Sarson, '成人大片 Face: Explaining Changes in Canada鈥檚 China Policy, 2006-2012,' Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 20:2 (2014), 146鈥62.鈥ㄢ
- 'The Liberal Past in the Conservative Present: Internationalism in the Harper Era,' in Heather A. Smith and Claire Turenne Sjolander, eds., Canada in the World: Internationalism in Canadian Foreign Policy (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2013), 21-35.鈥ㄢ
- 'Late Learners: The F-35 and Lessons from the New Fighter Aircraft Program,' International Journal 68:1 (Winter, 2012-3), 167-84.鈥ㄢ
- 鈥淒on鈥檛 Talk 成人大片 the Neighbours: Canada and the Regional Politics of the Afghanistan Mission,鈥 Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 17:1 (March 2011): 9鈥22. Winner of the 2011 Maureen Molot Best Paper Prize
- 'A Canadian Department of Global Affairs?' in Janice Gross Stein, ed., Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Essays in Honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2011), 141-54.鈥ㄢ
- Greg Donaghy and KRN, eds. Architects and Innovators: Building the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1909鈥2009 (Montr茅al and Kingston: McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2009), vii, 318 pp.
- Ann Capling and KRN, 鈥淭he Contradictions of Regionalism in North America,鈥 Review of International Studies 35:S1 (February 2009): 147-67
- 鈥淓ar Candy: Canadian Policy toward Humanitarian Intervention and Atrocity Crimes in Darfur,鈥 International Journal 60 (Autumn 2005), 1017-1032
- Nelson Michaud and KRN, eds., Diplomatic Departures: The Conservative Era in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1984-93 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2001), xvii, 326 pp.
- Lori Buck, Nicole Gallant and KRN, 鈥淪anctions as a Gendered Instrument of Statecraft: The Case of Iraq,鈥 Review of International Studies 24 (January 1998), 69-84
- 鈥淚nternational Sanctions as International Punishment,鈥 International Organization 43 (Spring 1989), 301-22
Research Interests:
- Canadian foreign and defence policy;
- Australian foreign and defence policy;
- Canadian-American relations;
- international stabilization missions
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