Taylor McDonald
Visiting Scholar-in-Residence
SIS Faculty
Bio
Dr. Taylor Robertson McDonald holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florida. He specializes in international relations, political theory, and philosophy. McDonald joins SIS having recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship as a member of the Faculty of International and Political Studies at The Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.
McDonald’s research broadly examines the relationship between state identity and foreign policy, and particularly Canadian foreign policy in the twenty-first century. He is the author of "Identity Discourses and Canadian Foreign Policy in the War on Terror" (2023), part of Palgrave Macmillan's prestigious Canada and International Affairs series. The book investigates the centrality of identity narratives to Canada’s two most paramount foreign policy decisions related to the so-called ‘Global War on Terror:’ the decision to join the US in the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and the decision to abstain from the invasion of Iraq in 2003. His book has recently been featured on E-International Relations. Currently, McDonald is completing an article exploring the Justin Trudeau government’s recent embrace of feminist foreign policy principles and its implications regarding NATO's response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
McDonald has received numerous teaching awards for his International Relations courses, most recently having taught Gender and IR, Grand Strategy, and Alliance Diplomacy and the Global War on Terror.
