Aurel Braun (born October 18, 1947) is a professor of
international relations
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and
political science
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at the
University of Toronto
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. He is also a senior member of the
Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies and of the Centre for International Studies, and a fellow and senator of
Trinity College Trinity College may refer to:
Australia
* Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales
* Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...
at the University of Toronto. Braun has been twice appointed as a visiting scholar at the
Hoover Institution
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,
Stanford University
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. Braun received his Ph.D. in international relations from the
London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
. He is a Canadian citizen.
Writing
Braun has published extensively on
communist
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affairs and
strategic studies with a special focus on the problems of the transformation of the
socialist
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systems in the former
Soviet Union
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and in
Eastern Europe
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. He is also a specialist in
international law
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. He is the author and/or editor of several books. His project on "The Russian Diaspora and the Prospect for Large-Scale Violence" was published by the
Council on Foreign Relations
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in New York.
Selected works
* ''NATO-Russia Relations in the 21st Century'', Routledge, New York, NY and London, UK, 2008.
* ''Dilemmas of Transition, Rowman and Littlefield'', Lahnam, MD, New York, NY and Oxford, UK, Fall 1999.
* ''The Extreme Right: Freedom and Security At Risk'' (with Stephen Scheinberg), Westview Press, Boulder, CO and Oxford, UK, 1997.
* ''The Soviet-East European Relationship in the Gorbachev Era: The Prospects for Adaptation'', Westview Press, Boulder, CO and Oxford, UK, 1990.
* ''The Middle East in Global Strategy'', Westview Press, Boulder CO and Mansell Publishing, London, UK, 1987.
* ''Small State Security in the Balkans'', Macmillan, New York, NY and London, UK, 1983).
* ''Ceausescu: The Problems of Power'', Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Toronto, 1980.
* ''Romanian Foreign Policy Since 1965: The Political and Military Limits of Autonomy'', Praeger, New York, NY, 1978.
* Mandelbaum, Michael, and Aurel Braun. "The dawn of peace in Europe." International Journal 52, no. 2 (1997): 380.
Lecturing
Braun has lectured widely in
Canada
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, the United States, Britain,
France
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,
Germany
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,
Belgium
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,
Italy
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,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
,
Russia
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,
Austria
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and
Norway
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. He is the winner of the PECSU Award for Teaching Excellence at the University of Toronto. He has appeared frequently on national television and radio. He has also participated in the Congressional Program in the United States under the auspices of the
Aspen Institute
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.
Government service
In January 2009, Braun was named Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
for a three-year term. The organization was dissolved in 2012 after conflict between the Board and the Staff of the agency.
References
External links
Aurel Braun has been quoted in the national and international media. A few examples:
* Lak, Daniel (August 19, 2008)
"The bear swaggers again" CBC News
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.
*
Talbott, Strobe (March 12, 1990)
"America Abroad the Man Who Made the Ice Melt" ''
Time
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''.
* Manar (August 24, 2007)
"Sudan expels top Canadian diplomat" Egypt.com News
* Farnsworth, Clyde H. (October 2, 1993)
''
The New York Times
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''
*
ttps://www.elespectador.com/mundo/mas-paises/europa-una-bomba-de-tiempo-article-42546/ "Europa, una bomba de tiempo" ''
El Espectador
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''. (October 7, 2008).
"Whole Show Blow-by-Blow" ''
The Current'' (September 4, 2007).
CBC Radio One
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.
* Petrou, Michael (July 9, 2008)
"Meet the new boss" ''
Maclean's
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Living people
Canadian political scientists
University of Toronto faculty
University of Toronto alumni
International relations scholars
Stanford University staff
1947 births