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Rita Abrahamsen
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Latest funding
- $34,708
Right Worlds: Think Tanks, Ideas and the Struggle over Conservative Visions of World Order
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $102,208
From International Best Practices to Conflict Prevention: Improving Security Governance and Protecting Human Rights in Natural Resource Sectors
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $40,238
From International Best Practices to Conflict Prevention: Improving Security Governance and Protecting Human Rights in Natural Resource Sectors
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
No publications available.
Right Worlds: Think Tanks, Ideas and the Struggle over Conservative Visions of World Order
Principal investigators: Abrahamsen, Rita
Keywords: Conservatism; radical right; international order; foreign policy; international relations; think tanks; globalization;
From International Best Practices to Conflict Prevention: Improving Security Governance and Protecting Human Rights in Natural Resource Sectors
Principal investigators: Grant, J. Andrew
Keywords: corporate social responsibility; human rights; security governance; best practices; norms; conflict prevention; mining; natural resources
From International Best Practices to Conflict Prevention: Improving Security Governance and Protecting Human Rights in Natural Resource Sectors
Principal investigators: Grant, J. Andrew
Keywords: corporate social responsibility; human rights; security governance; best practices; norms; conflict prevention; mining; natural resources
The African Union at 20: Pan-African Pasts and Futures
Principal investigators: Abrahamsen, Rita
Keywords: Africa; African Union; Pan-Africanism; Canada-Africa relations; world order; global governance
Global Right, Global White:Transnational Radical Conservatism and South Africa
Principal investigators: Abrahamsen, Rita
Keywords: radical right; white identitarianism; South Africa; international order; populism; race; conservatism; international political sociology
Middle power liberal internationalism in an illiberal world
Principal investigators: Abrahamsen, Rita
Keywords: middle powers; liberal internationalism; multilateralism; foreign policy; Canada; global governance; international institutions
The world of the right: radical conservatism and international order
Principal investigators: Williams, Michael C.
Keywords: conservatism; foreign policy; international order; far right; security communities
Private security and the resource curse in Africa
Principal investigators: Williams, Michael C.
Keywords: security; privatization; Africa; resource curse; mining; oil; governance; development; state weakness; corporate social responsiblity; Canada; Canadian foreign policy
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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Profile data last refreshed on September 26, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding.