Episode 3.5: Janice Stein, Canada’s Dean of International Relations

In episode 5 of Battle Rhythm's third season, Steve and our newest co-host Dr. Wendy Wong discus strudel surveys, mark the 4 year COVID pandemic anniversary, Nikki Haley vs Donald Trump & Sudan’s human rights crisis. in Today's feature interview, Wendy asks Janice Stein about how we should be thinking about the 120 year old conflict in Gaza, deterrence theory and the challenges for academics studying security in the past and today along with barriers for defence policy makers in Canada compared to its counterparts. Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. She was the Massey Lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate and has received Honorary Doctorates of Laws from universities in Canada and abroad. She is also an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Senior Fellow of the Kissinger Center at SAIS at Johns Hopkins University. Her current research focuses on technology and public policy in the context of great power competition. Last year, she co-chaired the National Advisory Committee on Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy for the Minister of Global Affairs