David Black

David Black is Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Development Studies (IDS) at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. He was previously founding Chair of the Department of IDS at Dalhousie, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa.

Black’s research has focused on Canada’s role in Sub-Saharan Africa, including development assistance, human security, multilateral diplomacy, and extractive industry investment; post-apartheid South Africa’s role in Africa; human rights in the foreign policies of South Africa and Canada; and Sport and World Politics, with an emphasis on the political economy of major sporting events. He has edited, authored, and co-authored numerous publications in these areas. He has served as President of the International Studies Association’s Canadian section, on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development, and on the Executive Council and as Co-Director of the Canadian Consortium on Human Security.

• Canadian Foreign and Development Policies
• Development Assistance
• Human Security
• Human Rights
• Africa Policies of G8 Governments
• South Africa
• Sports and World Politics

• "Canada, the G8 and Africa: the Rise and Decline of a Hegemonic Project?" In D. Bratt and C. Kukucha, eds., Readings in Canadian Foreign Policy: Classic Debates and New Ideas, 2nd edition. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• with Greg Donaghy (eds). Special issue of Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, Vol. 16, no. 2, 2010, on "Canadian Multilateralism: Past, Present, Future".
• with Paul D. Williams (eds.) The International Politics of Mass Atrocities: The Case of Darfur. London: Routlege, 2010
• "Canada and the Commonwealth: the Multilateral Politics of a 'Wasting Asset'". in Canadian Foreign Policy, Vol. 16, no. 2, 2010, 61-77
• "Out of Africa? The Harper Government's new 'tilt' in the Developing World", Canadian Foreign Policy, Vol. 15, no. 2, 2009, 41-56
• “Dreaming Big: The Pursuit of Second Order Games a Strategic Response to Globalisation.” In Sport and Society, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2008, 467-479.
• with R. Tiessen,“The Canadian International Development Agency: New Policies, Old Problems.” In Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2007, 191-212.
• with M. Savage, “Mainstreaming Investment: Developmental and Security Implications of Canadian Extractive Industries in Africa.” In B. Charbonneau and W. Cox, eds. Locating Global Order. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.
• with Sandra MacLean, and Timothy Shaw (eds.) A Decade of Human Security: Global Governance and New Multilateralisms. London: Ashgate, 2006
• “Mapping the Interplay of Human Security Practice and Debates: the Canadian Experience.”  In MacLean, Black, and Shaw (eds.), A Decade of Human Security. Aldershot: Ashgate 2006.
• “Canadian Aid to Africa: Assessing ‘Reform’,” in A. Cooper and D. Rowlands (eds.), Canada Among Nations 2006: A State of Minorities. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s, 2006.
• with Janis van der Westhuizen (eds.) Special Issue of Third World Quarterly, Vol. 25, no. 7, 2004, on "Going Global: The Promises and Pitfalls of Hosting Global Games"