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David Black is Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Development Studies and Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

He has longstanding research interests concerning Canadian involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa, including development cooperation, human security and peace operations, the extractive sector, and multilateral diplomacy. Other research interests include post-apartheid South Africa’s foreign policy; sport in global politics and development; and disability and global development.

His current research focuses include: “Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development”, a multi-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership project involving collaboration with researchers and disability advocates from several countries; and a collaborative project on “Middle Powers in an era of World Order Ferment.”

His books include: Canada and Africa in the New Millennium: The Politics of Consistent Inconsistency; Rethinking Canadian Aid, co-edited with Molly den Heyer and Stephen Brown; and South African Foreign Policy: Identities, Intentions, and Directions, co-edited with David Hornsby.