Kim Richard Nossal is professor emeritus of political studies in the Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen’s University. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1977, and taught at McMaster University in Hamilton from 1976 to 2001 before moving to Queen’s University in 2001 to head the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s (2001–09), and then served as the director of the CIDP (2011–13) and executive director of the Queen’s School of Policy Studies (2013–15), retiring in 2020. He is a former editor of International Journal, the quarterly of the Canadian International Council, Canada’s institute of international affairs; a former president of the Canadian Political Science Association; and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of a number of works on Canadian foreign and defence policy, including The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, co-authored with Stéphane Roussel and Stéphane Roussel. This text has gone through four editions in English, two editions in French as Politique internationale et défense au Canada et au Québec, and was translated into Chinese in 2018. Nossal’s latest book, Canada Alone: Navigating the Post-American World, on the implications for Canadian foreign policy of the America First movement, was published by Dundurn Press in 2023.