David S. McDonough
Department of Political Science (Balsillie School of International Affairs) at the University of Waterloo
Canada

David S. McDonough is a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science (Balsillie School of International Affairs) at the University of Waterloo. He completed a PhD in political science at Dalhousie University in 2011 and is a research fellow at Dalhousie’s Centre for Foreign Policy Studies.. He is a recipient of the SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship (2006–9), the SDF Dr Ronald Baker Doctoral Scholarship (2009–10), and Killam Doctoral Scholarships (2008–11). He held positions at the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, the Royal Canadian Military Institute, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has published widely on international security in International Journal, RUSI Journal, Strategic Survey, Orbis, Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Canadian Naval Review, SITREP, Strategic Datalink, and Third World Quarterly. He completed a monograph in the IISS Adelphi Paper series on Nuclear Superiority: The New Triad and the Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (2006), and is the editor of a forthcoming edited volume from the University of Toronto Press, titled Canada’s National Security in the Post-9/11 World: Strategy, Interests, and Threats.