Acknowledgment
The author thanks two anonymous referees from the 2017 Canadian Peace Research Association conference at the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences as well as Sandra Coulson, Robert Young, Michael Simpson, and Dr. Graham Simpson for their valuable commentary on this essay.
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Erika Simpson
Erika Simpson is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Western University and the Vice-President of the Canadian Peace Research Association. She is the author of NATO and the Bomb (McGill-Queen's University Press) and many other scholarly publications. She is also a syndicated columnist for the Postmedia Network, Canada's largest newspaper chain and in 2015, she was awarded the Shirley Farlinger Award for Peace Writings by Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. E-mail: [email protected].