Dec 03, 2018
Dr. Erika Simpson, Westeren University
NATO and U.S. President Trump: Gloom and Doom?

Dr. Erika Simpson is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Western University and the author of the book NATO and the Bomb, and numerous scholarly articles. She is a regular columnist for Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper chain, and serves as the Vice-President of the Canadian Peace Research Association.

Previously Vice-Chair of Pugwash Canada (2007-2011) and Treasurer (2004-2008) she served for two years as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant adjudicator and a Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health peer reviewer. In 2015 she was awarded the “Shirley Farlinger Award for Peace Writings” by Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, an NGO with consultative status at the UN.

The title of her presentation is: “NATO and U.S. President Trump: Gloom and Doom?