About the Authors

1Louis Balthazar is professor of Political Science at the Université Laval, Québec, Canada. E-mail: balthazar@mercure.net

2Leen d’Haenens is associate professor at the Department of Communication, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. E-mail: l.dhaenens@maw.kun.nl

3Herman Ganzevoort is professor at the Department of History, University of Calgary, Canada. E-mail: ganzevoh@cadvision.com

4Raymond Hébert is associate professor of Political Studies at the Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface, University of Manitoba, Canada. E-mail: rhebert@surf.pangea.ca

5Cornelius J. Jaenen is professor emeritus at the department of History, University of Ottawa, Canada.

6John F. Conway is professor of Sociology at the University of Regina, Canada.

7James S. Frideres is professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology of the University of Calgary, Canada.

8Michael Hart is professor of International Affairs in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada. He is also visiting professor at the Center for Trade and Commercial Diplomacy at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. E-mail: international_affairs@carleton.ca

9Donald G. Mitchell is the founder of Canada’s only Full Service Trading Group (CTG) whose founding partners in 1986 include the Federal Government of Canada, Samsung Corporation of Korea, SNC/Lavalin, and Donald Mitchell’s company D.G.M. Consulting.

10Cornelius H.W. Remie is associate professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. E-mail: chwremie@telebyte.nl

11Lorna Roth is associate professor at the Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada. E-mail: roth@microtech.net

12Jennifer Vrielinck graduated in 1994 at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Ghent, Belgium.