A Multidisciplinary Approach to Pandemics

Philippe Bourbeau is the Director of the Graduate School of International Studies, Chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Immigration and Security, and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University Laval, Canada. His work adopts a multidisciplinary approach to international issues. His books include On Resilience. Genealogy, Logics, and World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Security: Dialogue across Disciplines (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and The Securitization of Migration (Routledge, 2013). Jean-Michel Marcoux is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. He holds a Ph.D. in Law (University of Victoria), an M.A. in International Studies (Institut québécois des hautes études internationales), and a B.A. in Public Affairs and International Relations (University Laval). Prior to joining Carleton University, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University's Faculty of Law. Interested in international economic law and international relations theory, he is the author of International Investment Law and Globalization: Foreign Investment, Responsibilities, and Intergovernmental Organizations (Routledge, 2018). Brooke A. Ackerly is Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. In her research, teaching, and collaborations, she clarifies without simplifying the most pressing problems of global justice, including human rights and climate change. Her theoretical work utilizes empirical research on activism and the lived experience of those affected by injustice (Grounded Normative Theory). She is the author of Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism (2000), Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference (2008), Doing Feminist Research with Jacqui True (2010, 2019), and Just Responsibility: A Human Rights Theory of Global Justice (2018).