Each brief book in this highly curated series focuses on big ideas related to the Munk School of Global Affairs’ key themes (including, for example, global innovation, global security, global justice, and the global economy). Munk Series titles highlight each author’s unique voice, engaging curious readers with vivid narratives, insightful analysis, and lively prose. Books selected for the Munk Series are accessible and intellectually significant, rigorously meeting a high standard of scholarship.
Stand on Guard provides a nuanced explanation of Canadian national security threats such as violent extremism, espionage, and clandestine foreign influence, emphasizing trust and empathy in developing national security policies to counter them.
An overview of the two subjects that distinguish Quebec from the rest of Canada: its deep concern about preserving its culture and its progressive approach to economic and social policy.
This book provides an overview of the Balkans since 1878 with an emphasis on the region post-1989. Mindful of a complicated past, it seeks to explain why the region has endured such a prolonged and fraught transition to democracy and eventual membership in the European Union.
Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street Public School in Toronto, between 1920 and 1990.
