Franklyn Griffiths is a Senior Fellow at Massey College, University
of Toronto and the Canadian International Council. He is also a professor
at the Emeritus of Political Science and George Ignatieff Chair Emeritus
of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto. His research
and policy interests focus on the Arctic, Russia, and international
security affairs. Among his authored and edited publications are A
Northern Foreign Policy (1979), Politics of the Northwest Passage (1987),
Arctic Alternatives: Civility or Militarism in the Circumpolar North
(1992), Strong and Free: Canada and the New Sovereignty (1997), and “Built
to Last: Conditionality and What It Can Do for the Disposition of Russian
Weapon-Grade Plutonium” (Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade, 2002). His most recent work is “Camels in the Arctic?” which
appeared in the November 2007 issue of The Walrus magazine. At various
times he served as Director of the Centre for Russian and East European
Studies at the University of Toronto, as a senior policy advisor in
the Office of the Secretary of State for External Affairs, visiting
professor at Stanford University, and visiting scholar at the University
of Cambridge (Scott Polar Institute). He retired in 2001, and, in addition
to Arctic issues, is writing a book on the incivilities of Western
civilization.
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