Edelgard Mahant

{{short description|Canadian politician}}

Edelgard Elspeth Mahant is a Canadian academic, who teaches political science at York University's Glendon College in Toronto, Ontario and University of Botswana.{{cite web |url=http://www.eucanet.org/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=viewlink&link_id=161 |title=EUCAnet - Mahant, Edelgard |format= |accessdate=12 January 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://gl.yorku.ca/GlProfProfiles.nsf/Unique/GGAT-7NJQ9Z?OpenDocument&subnavigation=faculty |title=GLENDON - Edelgard Elspeth Mahant |format= |accessdate=12 January 2011}}

She formerly taught at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, where she was also the Ontario Liberal Party candidate in the electoral district of Sudbury East in the 1985 provincial election.{{Cite web|title=Senior Liberals' Commission {{!}} Ontario Section Board|url=https://slc-cal.liberal.ca/?page_id=866|website=slc-cal.liberal.ca|access-date=2020-05-30}}

Education

She completed her studies at the Universities of British Columbia (BA) and Toronto (MA) and obtained her PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science with a thesis titled "French and German Attitudes to the Establishment of the European Economic Community, 1955-1957".

Areas of expertise

Mahant is specialized in foreign policy, including the politics of the European Union, Free trade and International Relations.

She has cowritten two books on Canada-United States relations with historian Graeme S. Mount:

  • An introduction to Canadian-American relations Graeme S. Mount, Edelgard E. Mahant. Methuen, London 1984 {{ISBN|0-458-97190-1}}
  • Invisible and inaudible in Washington: American policies toward Canada Graeme S. Mount, Edelgard E. Mahant. UBC Press, Vancouver 1999 {{ISBN|0-7748-0703-2}}

Other books

Mahant is also the author of several other books and publications:{{cite web |url=http://www.glendon.yorku.ca/english/faculty/researchcentres/api/mahant.html |title=Glendon Research Group in Public and International Affairs |accessdate=12 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614223339/http://www.glendon.yorku.ca/english/faculty/researchcentres/api/mahant.html |archivedate=14 June 2011 }}

  • Grandma's Gone to Africa. One Woman's Journey to Botswana the Good Toronto: EP2M Enterprises, 2016.{{ISBN|978-1522700128}}.
  • Darfur to Taipei. Cases in Foreign Policy Analysis Edelgard Mahant and Bodistean, eds Toronto: Glendon College, 2015 {{ISBN|9781508823742}}
  • Free trade in American-Canadian relations Edelgard E. Mahant. Krieger 1993 {{ISBN|0-89464-522-6}}
  • Birthmarks of Europe: the origins of the European Community reconsidered Edelgard E. Mahant. Ashgate 2004 {{ISBN|0-7546-1487-5}}

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