Governor's General Award 1999

Professor Charles F. Doran, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University since 1991, is arguably the most influential of U.S. commentators on Canadian American bilateral relations and foreign policy. Over the past fifteen years he has addressed over two hundred conferences, panels, symposia, and meetings in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Korea, India, and the Middle East. He has also testified before the House Committee on Small Business and the House Committee on International Relations (Western Hemisphere) regarding the U.S.-Canada Bilateral Trade Agreement, a Canada-U.S. Mechanism for Trade Dispute Resolution, and other economic and political issues in the Canada-U.S. relationship. He has participated in televised interviews at the National Press Club in Washington regarding the Canadian and Quebec elections; briefed parliamentary interns of the Quebec National Assembly on the current political climate in the United States regarding Quebec sovereignty; and discussed the transition process and likely policies of the Clinton administration and possible implications for Canada with senior members of the Liberal Party. His article "Will Canada Unravel?" published in Foreign Affairs was the catalyst for an unprecedented U.S. Congressional hearing in September 1996 on the possible disintegration of Canada.

Since 1980 Professor Doran has been Director of the Center of Canadian Studies, The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. In this capacity he founded and organized its International Advisory Council, raising for the Center over $2 million (over $1 million in endowment). An active member of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), he served as Councillor from 1981-1985, Vice-President from 1985-1987, President from 1987-1989, and from 1989-1990 served as Member-at-large on the ICCS Executive Committee.

In addition he co-directed a binational study of Canada and the United States for the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Assembly (1985), and projects on North American free trade for the Foreign Policy Institute (Donner Foundation, 1990-1991, and 1993-1995. In 1985-1986 he held the Claude T. Bissell Professor of Canadian-American Relations at University of Toronto, delivering public lectures throughout Canada. Prof. Doran has long been a member of the Council on the Council on Foreign Relations, the Canadian-American Committee, the North American Committee, and the Western Hemisphere Committee of the Atlantic Council. He is also now a Senior Associate, Americas Program, at the Council for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.

Prof. Doran is on the Editorial Board of Canadian Foreign Policy/La Politique étrangère, one of the leading Canadian journals of international affairs and is himself author of more than twenty books and over 100 articles and book chapters that relate in whole or in part to Canadian Studies, including the now classic The Forgotten Partnership: U.S-Canada Relations Today (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984); and the co-edited and authored U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber: Trade Negotiation (Washington, D.C.: The Foreign Policy Institute, 1987), Canada: Unity in Diversity (New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1989), The United States, Canada, and the World Economy (Washington, D.C.: The Foreign Policy Institute, 1991), The NAFTA Puzzle: Political Parties and Trade in North America (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), and A New North America: Cooperation and Enhanced Interdependence (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996).

Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies: 1999 - Charles F. Doran

		Charles Doran delivering acceptance speech at ICCS banquet, held at Toronto Marriott (Eaton Centre), May 27, 1999 Photo credit: Plum Studios Incorporated
	Professor Charles F. Doran, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University since 1991, is arguably the most influential of U.S. commentators on Canadian American bilateral relations and foreign policy. Over the past fifteen years he has addressed over two hundred conferences, panels, symposia, and meetings in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Korea, India, and the Middle East. He has also testified before the House Committee on Small Business and the House Committee on International Relations (Western Hemisphere) regarding the U.S.-Canada Bilateral Trade Agreement, a Canada-U.S. Mechanism for Trade Dispute Resolution, and other economic and political issues in the Canada-U.S. relationship. He has participated in televised interviews at the National Press Club in Washington regarding the Canadian and Quebec elections; briefed parliamentary interns of the Quebec National Assembly on the current political climate in the United States regarding Quebec sovereignty; and discussed the transition process and likely policies of the Clinton administration and possible implications for Canada with senior members of the Liberal Party. His article "Will Canada Unravel?" published in Foreign Affairs was the catalyst for an unprecedented U.S. Congressional hearing in September 1996 on the possible disintegration of Canada. Since 1980 Professor Doran has been Director of the Center of Canadian Studies, The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. In this capacity he founded and organized its International Advisory Council, raising for the Center over $2 million (over $1 million in endowment). An active member of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), he served as Councillor from 1981-1985, Vice-President from 1985-1987, President from 1987-1989, and from 1989-1990 served as Member-at-large on the ICCS Executive Committee. In addition he co-directed a binational study of Canada and the United States for the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Assembly (1985), and projects on North American free trade for the Foreign Policy Institute (Donner Foundation, 1990-1991, and 1993-1995. In 1985-1986 he held the Claude T. Bissell Professor of Canadian-American Relations at University of Toronto, delivering public lectures throughout Canada. Prof. Doran has long been a member of the Council on the Council on Foreign Relations, the Canadian-American Committee, the North American Committee, and the Western Hemisphere Committee of the Atlantic Council. He is also now a Senior Associate, Americas Program, at the Council for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Prof. Doran is on the Editorial Board of Canadian Foreign Policy/La Politique étrangère, one of the leading Canadian journals of international affairs and is himself author of more than twenty books and over 100 articles and book chapters that relate in whole or in part to Canadian Studies, including the now classic The Forgotten Partnership: U.S-Canada Relations Today (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984); and the co-edited and authored U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber: Trade Negotiation (Washington, D.C.: The Foreign Policy Institute, 1987), Canada: Unity in Diversity (New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1989), The United States, Canada, and the World Economy (Washington, D.C.: The Foreign Policy Institute, 1991), The NAFTA Puzzle: Political Parties and Trade in North America (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), and A New North America: Cooperation and Enhanced Interdependence (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996). Close this window