Editors’ Introduction
| Published date | 01 March 2021 |
| Author | Brian Bow,Susan Colbourn |
| DOI | 10.1177/00207020211003822 |
| Date | 01 March 2021 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
Editors’ Introduction
The journal’s sponsors and editorial staff are very pleased to announce a new
editorial leadership team for International Journal. Dr. Susan Colbourn, who
has been serving as editor for the journal’s Lessons of History section, has recently
taken over the historian’s position left empty by the untimely death of Greg
Donaghy, and has been sharing the editorial work for this issue. Susan is a histo-
rian of alliance politics and nuclear statecraft and has published widely on the
political and military uses of nuclear weapons, the past, present, and future of
NATO, and Canadian foreign relations. She currently holds a German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD) postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University’s
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
In summer of 2021, Prof. W. Andy Knight will take over the other editor-in-
chief position from Brian Bow. Andy is one of Canada’s best-known scholars of
International Relations, with expertise (and a lengthy publication record) in a wide
variety of areas, including the UN, humanitarian intervention and peace-building,
African security cooperation and Canada-Africa relations, and the Caribbean. He
brings a wealth of experience, including many years’ work as editor-in-chief of the
journal African Security.
We begin the new year, as we always do, by celebrating our essay prize winners
for the previous year. The SAGE Award for international scholarship goes to Eric
M. Blanchard, for his article “Combing the same beach: Analytic eclecticism and
the challenge of theoretical multilingualism” (September 2020). The Marcel
Cadieux Award for the best article on Canadian foreign policy has been awarded
to Meredith Lilly and Delaram Arabi, for their article “Symbolic act, real con-
sequences: Passing Canada’s Magnitsky Law to combat human rights violations
and corruption” (June 2020). And the Marvin Gelber Prize, awarded each year to
the author of the best essay by a junior scholar, goes to Caroline Dunton, for
“Willing to serve: Empire, status, and Canadian campaigns for the UN Security
Council, 1946–1947” (December 2020). Congratulations to all of our award win-
ners for their outstanding contributions.
This issue begins with a forum of relatively short, policy-focused essays on the
international implications of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, brought together
by Bruno Charbonneau. These five essays explore various efforts by international
organizations and states to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and its knock-
International Journal
2021, Vol. 76(1) 3–5
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