Grant Dawson

Background

About Grant Dawson

I am a Canadian-trained scholar based in Ningbo, China. From 2009-14, I was a member of the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University (the oldest such department in the world), in Wales, UK. I began my academic career as a post-doc Research Fellow with the famed Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (2005-06), and the Department of Political Science (2005-09), at Carleton University. I was a Visiting Scholar at Xiamen University (Xiamen, China) in 2012, and at Fudan University (Shanghai) in 2017. I have lectured at conferences and guest speaker events in Canada, the UK, China, and many other places around the world.Coming from a history-international affairs PhD, I have moved towards the core foci of IR. My current work revolves around the IR theoretical approach and methodology known as classical realism. My research expertise and areas of interest are: international military intervention, classical realism, status theory, transnational politics / paradiplomacy, British and Canadian foreign policy, and the case study and process tracing research methods.