Charles Burton
Department of Political Science
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1 Canada
Telephone: (905)329-9477
Fax: (209)231-4087
E-mail: [email protected]
Skype, MSN, Yahoo: cburton001; Hushmail: Burton
Blog: http://charlesburton.blogspot.com/
The Department of Political Science has a page about me with biographical information in the Department’s Faculty listing: http://www.brocku.ca/politicalscience/people/Charles_Burton.html
Area of Specialization
Comparative politics
Associate Professor
B.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
[email protected]
Research Interests
My scholarly work has been focussed on issues of economic and social justice in Northern Asia. The fundamental question that I seek to resolve is how to alleviate poverty and to realize human rights in the context of repressive structures of political power and cultural legacies at cross purposes to liberal norms. This question is further complicated by the pressures that external actors including multilateral institutions such as the United Nations, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization exert on the domestic political, economic and social institutions of developing nations. My expertise in these matters has led to my being seconded by Brock to the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade to serve as Counsellor in the Embassy of Canada to China and Mongolia twice, from 1991-93 and 1998-2000. On my most recent diplomatic posting I also had responsibility for analysis of North Korean affairs. My teaching and research draws extensively on my experience in the field. I have a web page for Brock students at http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~cburton/.
Selected Publications
“The African Union’s Standby Force: Canadian Foreign and Defence Policy Options” in Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (forthcoming).
“North Korea as a Key Factor in Sino-US Relations after the September 11th Incident” in Danny Shui-Lam Paau, ed. China in U.S. Relations with East Asia, M.E. Sharpe, 2004 (forthcoming).
“Teluduo he jianadade zhengzhi wenhua” (Trudeau and the Canadian Political Culture) foreword to Liu Guangtai Teluduo zhengzhi zhuanji (The Political Biography of Pierre Trudeau) Beijing: Shijie zhishi chubanshe, 2003 also published in Jianada – Teluduo – Zhongguo (Canada –Trudeau – China) Beijing: Minzu chubanshe, 2003.
“China’s International Role Today” in Eugenio Clini, ed., Shanghai 2003 / Atti del Convegno: The Emerging Chinese Centry and the New Institutional Organization of Western Economies, Naples: Editoriale Scientifica, 2003
“China” in Herbert M. Kritzer, ed. Legal Systems of the World: a social and cultural encyclopedia, Ann Arbor: ABC-CIO, 2002, vol. 1.
“Jianadade renquan lilun” (Canada’s Human Rights Doctrine) in Qi Zhou, ed., Human Rights and Diplomacy. Beijing: Current Affairs Publishing House. 2002.
