Edelgard Mahant


Edelgard Elspeth Mahant is a Canadian academic, who teaches political science at York University's Glendon College in Toronto, Ontario and University of Botswana.
She formerly taught at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, where she was also the Ontario Liberal Party candidate in the electoral district of Sudbury East in the 1985 provincial election.

Education

She completed her studies at the Universities of British Columbia and Toronto and obtained her PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science with a thesis titled "French and German Attitudes to the Establishment of the European Economic Community, 1955-1957".

Areas of expertise

Mahant specialized in foreign policy, including the politics of the European Union, Free trade and International Relations.
She has cowritten two books on Canada-United States relations with historian Graeme S. Mount:
  • An introduction to Canadian-American relations Graeme S. Mount, Edelgard E. Mahant. Methuen, London 1984
  • Invisible and inaudible in Washington: American policies toward Canada Graeme S. Mount, Edelgard E. Mahant. UBC Press, Vancouver 1999
Other books
Mahant is also the author of several other books and publications:Grandma's Gone to Africa. One Woman's Journey to Botswana the Good Toronto: EP2M Enterprises, 2016..Darfur to Taipei. Cases in Foreign Policy Analysis Edelgard Mahant and Bodistean, eds Toronto: Glendon College, 2015