Edelgard Elspeth Mahant is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 academic, who teaches political science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

 at York University

York University

York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

's Glendon College

Glendon College

Glendon College is one of the two campuses of York University, Canada's third-largest university, in Toronto, Ontario. A bilingual liberal arts college with 84 full-time faculty members and a student population of about 2400, Glendon is located in midtown Toronto's Lawrence Park neighbourhood...

 in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

 and University of Botswana

University of Botswana

The University of Botswana, or UB was established in 1982 as the first institution of higher education in Botswana. The university has four campuses: two in the capital city Gaborone, one in Francistown, and another in Maun. The university is divided into six faculties: Business, Education,...

. She is also member of Glendon Research Group in Public and International Affairs.

She formerly taught at Laurentian University

Laurentian University

Laurentian University , was incorporated on March 28, 1960, is a mid-sized bilingual university in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada....

 in Sudbury, Ontario

Ontario

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, where she was also the Ontario Liberal Party

Ontario Liberal Party

The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...

 candidate in the electoral district of Sudbury East

Sudbury East

Sudbury East was a provincial electoral riding in the Canadian province of Ontario, that was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1999. It served the easternmost portion of the former city of Sudbury, the eastern portion of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury, and...

 in the 1985 provincial election

Ontario general election, 1985

The Ontario general election of 1985 was held on May 2, 1985, to elect members of the 33rd Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada...

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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

Foreign policy

A country's foreign policy, also called the foreign relations policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations milieu. The approaches are strategically employed to interact with other countries...

, including the politics of the European Union

European Union

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, Free trade

Free trade

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 and International Relations

International relations

International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...

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She has cowritten two major books on Canada-United States relations

Canada-United States relations

Relations between Canada and the United States have spanned more than two centuries. This includes a shared British colonial heritage, warfare during the 1770s and 1812, and the eventual development of one of the most successful international relationships in the modern world...

 with historian Graeme S. Mount

Graeme S. Mount

Graeme Stewart Mount is a Canadian historian and academic who taught history at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario until his retirement in 2005. His publications have included a number of works on international relations, including several books on Canada-United States relations, the...

:

• 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 publications

Mahant is also author of several books and publications:

• 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

• Mahant, E.E. “Mirror on the Wall: Who Is the Most European of Us All?” Journal of European Integration, vol.32:2 (2010), pp. 229–236
• Mahant, E.E. and R.P. Mahant. “Artisinal Mining in Tanzania” The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability vol.5:6 (2009), pp. 161–188
• Mahant, E.E. “The Franco-German Couple and the British Paramour” in Chrtistian Philip et al., eds. Mélanges Soldatos. Brussels: Bruylant, (forthcoming)
• Mahant, E.E. “Regional Economic Integration – Bringing Values In” in C. Paraskevopoulos, A.A. Kintis & A.J. Kondonassis, eds. Globalization and the Political Economy of Trade Policy, Toronto: APF Press, 2001, pp. 45–77.
• Mahant, E.E. and X. de Vanssay. “Preferential Trading Arrangements” in C. Paraskevopoulos, R. Grinspun and G. Eatons, eds., Economic Integration in the Americas, Brookfield: Edward Elgar, 1996, pp. 169–181.
• X. de Vanssay and E.E. Mahant. “Three’s Company and Fifteen’s a Union: the Comparative Political Economy of NAFTA and the European Union. Integration or Liberalisation?” in Till Geiger and Dennis Kennedy, eds., Regional Trade Blocs, Multilateralism and the GATT, London: Pinter 1996, pp. 131–155.