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Peter McKenna
Professor Emeritus
Education

Ph.D. Dalhousie University, 1992
M.A. Dalhousie University, 1987
B.A. Dalhousie University (honours), 1984

Academic Awards and Achievements

Winnner of the 1991 Canada-Latin American Forum (FOCAL) national essay contest on the role of Canada in the Organization of American States (OAS).

Academic Employment

University of Prince Edward Island:
Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Studies, 2003-2004

Mount Saint Vincent University:
Assistant Professor, Department of Political and Canadian Studies, 1997-2003

Saint Mary's University:
Assitant Professor, Department of Political Science, 1993-1997

Dalhousie University:
Sessional lecturer, Department of Political Studies, 1993

Dalhousie University:
Fellowship with the Centre For Foreign Policy Studies, 1993 to present

Areas of Academic Interest

Conducting research on Canada's role in the OAS, Canadian-Latin American relations, Canadian-Cuban relations, Canadian-Mexican relations, Canada- U.S. relations, human rights issues and gaming in Canada.

Publications: Books

Political Economy of Island Juristictions: Lessons from the North Atlantic (co-editor, Godfrey Baldacchino, associate editors Barry Bartmann & Rob Greenwood) a book publication of the North Atlantic Islands Programme, a joint project of the Institute of Island Studies, UPEI, Canada, and NordREFO (the Nordic Institute of Regional Policy Research, Stolkholm), MacMillan publishers, London, fall 1999

The Canadian Constitution 3rd edition, (Toronto: Lorimer, 1991), paper and cloth editions, 374 pp.(Earlier editions in 1989, 1981)

Tug of War: Ottawa and the Provinces under Trudeau and Mulroney, (Toronto:Lorimer, 1986), paper and cloth editions, 275 pp. The Garden Transformed: Prince Edward Island 1945-1980, V.Smitheram, D. Milne, S. Dasgupta, eds., (Charlottetown: Ragweed Press, 1982), paperback, 271 pp.

Royal Commision and Consultancy Reports

The Case of New Brunswick-Aboriginal Relations, A Research Report to the Canadian Governments and Aboriginal Peoples Project, Royal Commision on Aboriginal Peoples, 1994, 89 pp.

Major contributing author and editor, Report of the New Brunswick Commision On Candian Federalism, January 1992, 52 pp.

Concurrency with Provincial Paramountcy: A Research Project on the Division of Powers for Federal Provincial Relations Office of the Government of Canada, (with Micael Collins, Lisa Young and Peter Dauvergne) July 5, 1991, 93 pp.



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