Aurel Braun
Aurel Braun is a professor of international relations and political science at the University of Toronto. He is also a senior member of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies and of the Centre for International Studies, and a fellow and senator of Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Braun has been twice appointed as a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Braun received his Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics. He is a Canadian citizen.
Writing
Braun has published extensively on communist affairs and strategic studies with a special focus on the problems of the transformation of the socialist systems in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe. He is also a specialist in international law. He is the author and/or editor of several books. His project on "The Russian Diaspora and the Prospect for Large-Scale Violence" was published by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.Selected works
NATO-Russia Relations in the 21st Century, Routledge, New York, NY and London, UK, 2008.Dilemmas of Transition, Rowman and Littlefield, Lahnam, MD, New York, NY and Oxford, UK, Fall 1999.The Extreme Right: Freedom and Security At Risk, Westview Press, Boulder, CO and Oxford, UK, 1997.The Soviet-East European Relationship in the Gorbachev Era: The Prospects for Adaptation, Westview Press, Boulder, CO and Oxford, UK, 1990.The Middle East in Global Strategy, Westview Press, Boulder CO and Mansell Publishing, London, UK, 1987.Small State Security in the Balkans, Macmillan, New York, NY and London, UK, 1983).Ceausescu: The Problems of Power, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Toronto, 1980.Romanian Foreign Policy Since 1965: The Political and Military Limits of Autonomy, Praeger, New York, NY, 1978.- Mandelbaum, Michael, and Aurel Braun. "The dawn of peace in Europe." International Journal 52, no. 2 : 380.