James McKay

James McKay

Associate Professor

Department of Political Science and Economics

Royal Military College of Canada

Affiliation

About

Educated at Bishop's University, RMC, and King's College London.  Has served as Director, Faculty Services, Chair Military & Strategic Studies, Associate Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities (Faculty); and Chair War Studies.  Current research is on the measurement of national power.

Research Interests

  • Power
  • Transatlantic defence & security relations
  • Coercion

Recent Publications

  • 鈥淧ressure, Threat, Dependence: Assessing NATO Member-State Defence Spending?鈥 Journal of Transatlantic Studies.  December 2022. .

  • with Pierre Jolicoeur, Christian Breede, and Ali Dizboni.  鈥淓ducating the Ideal Canadian Lieutenant鈥. Parameters, Spring 2022.

  • 鈥淐anada and NATO: hopes and ambitions鈥, in Michele Testoni, Ed., NATO and Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century,(London: Routledge, 2021).

  • 鈥淪haped by Loss: Culture and Casualties in Canada鈥, in H. Christian Breede, Ed.  Culture and the Soldier: Identities, Values, and Norms in Military Engagements, (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019).

  • 鈥淗ow transatlantic is the Trump Administration?鈥, Journal of Transatlantic Studies.  October 2019.  DOI: 10.1057/s42738-019-00030-0,  532-553. 

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