Joel Sokolsky

Dr. Sokolsky is a Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC).  He holds a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. A native of Toronto, Dr. Sokolsky earned his Honours BA from the University of Toronto and an MA from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. From 2008 to 2013, he was Principal (Provost) of RMC.  Prior to this appointment, Dr. Sokolsky was Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Head of the Department of Political Science and Chair of the War Studies Committee. He is a Senior Fellow at the Queen’s University Centre for International and Defence Policy and holds an appointment with the Queen’s Department of Political Studies. He is a Senior Analyst with Wikistrat.com. Dr. Sokolsky has served as a consultant to several government offices and represented Canada on the Secretariat Working Group of the NATO/Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes.

• B.A. University of Toronto
• M.A. Johns Hopkins
• Ph.D. Harvard

Recent Publications

• Christian Leuprecht, Joel J.  Sokolsky and  and Thomas Hughes. North American Strategic Defense in the 21st Century: Security and Sovereignty in an Uncertain World, Berlin: Springer, 2018.
• Christian Leuprecht, Joel J. Sokolsky and Jayson Derow, “Paying It Forward:  Canada’s renewed commitment to NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence,” International Journal,  Vol,  74, No 1. (Winter 2019)
• Christian Leuprecht and Joel J. Sokolsky  Multilateral Unilateralism: Europe’s Second Chance…on America’s Terms  Ottawa, Konrad Adenhauer Shiftung 2021.
• Joseph T. Jockel and Joel J. Sokolsky, Canada in NATO, 1949-2019, Montreal , McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021.
• Joel J. Sokolsky,  “Canada: Very Civil Relations,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, January 2021  https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-1801
• Joel J. Sokolsky, “The International Fraternity of the Uniform: Implications for Civil–Military Relations,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, March 2021 https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-1875
• Joel J. Sokolsky, “Canada’s NATO: Seventy Years of Commitment and Re-Commitment,”  in Murray, Robert W., Gecelovsky, Paul (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Canada in International Affairs,  New York, Palgrave, 2021

Current Interests/Research:

• Canadian foreign and defence policy;
• International security relations; and
• American foreign and defence policy.