{{Short description|Canadian political scientist (born 1943)}} {{Infobox person | name = Janice Stein | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|OOnt|FRSC|size=100%}} | image = Jonathan Vance and Janice Stein - 20 November 2015 (cropped).jpg | alt = Stein in 2015 | caption = Stein in 2015 | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1943}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | education = {{ubl |[[McGill University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]) |[[Yale University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])}} | module = {{Infobox academic | child = yes | thesis_title = | field = | workplaces = [[University of Toronto]]}} }} '''Janice Gross Stein''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|OOnt|FRSC}} (born 1943) is a Canadian political scientist and international relations expert. Stein is a specialist in [[Middle East]] area studies, [[negotiation theory]], foreign policy decision-making, and international conflict management.
She is the founding director of the [[Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy]] at the [[University of Toronto]],<ref name="Critchley">{{cite news |url=https://financialpost.com/news/fp-street/we-have-built-our-own-nightmare-why-many-arent-ready-for-the-next-industrial-revolution |title='We have built our own nightmare': Why many aren't ready for the next industrial revolution |last=Critchley |first=Barry |date=November 16, 2017 |newspaper=[[Financial Post]] |access-date=October 6, 2020}}</ref> where she is a professor.
== Life and career == Stein holds degrees from [[McGill University]] (undergraduate and doctoral), and [[Yale University]] (master's). She has been a professor at the [[University of Toronto]] since 1982, and was named a University Professor in 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greatpast.utoronto.ca/GreatMinds/ShowBannerUTM.asp?ID=57|title=University of Toronto Mississauga page|access-date=2011-02-14|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030918/http://www.greatpast.utoronto.ca/GreatMinds/ShowBannerUTM.asp?ID=57|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Stein is a specialist in [[Middle East]] area studies; negotiation theory; foreign policy decision-making; and international conflict management, on which she has lectured at the Centre for National Security Studies in [[Ottawa]] and at the [[NATO Defense College]] in [[Rome]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.provost.utoronto.ca/Awards/uprofessors/current/Professor_Janice_Gross_Stein.html |title=Professor Janice Gross Stein U of T citation |access-date=2009-04-25 |archive-date=2019-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216072652/http://www.provost.utoronto.ca/Awards/uprofessors/current/Professor_Janice_Gross_Stein.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Stein is the founder and former director of the [[Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy]] at the [[University of Toronto]] and Associate Chair and Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation within the University of Toronto's [[political science]] department. Stein has been considered the central figure in making the Munk School a go-to-place for international affairs in [[Toronto]]. She has also been referred to as an academic entrepreneur.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/munk-schools-janice-stein-talks-about-leaving-her-post/article1211219/|title=Munk School's Janice Stein talks about leaving her post|newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=14 May 2010 |access-date=2016-07-02|last1=Church |first1=Elizabeth }}</ref>
Following the end of her directorship at the Munk School, Stein became the senior presidential advisor on international initiatives to the former University of Toronto President, [[Meric Gertler]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.artsci.utoronto.ca/all-news/janice-stein-new-role-expert-middle-east-munk-school-global-affairs/|title=Janice Stein named senior advisor on international initiatives|date=2015-03-11|language=en-US|access-date=2016-07-02|archive-date=2016-08-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829042134/http://news.artsci.utoronto.ca/all-news/janice-stein-new-role-expert-middle-east-munk-school-global-affairs/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Stein is a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]] and an Honorary Foreign Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]. Other organizational affiliations and memberships include: * [[National Academy of Sciences]]' [[Workshop on Middle East Negotiations]] and the [[Committee on International Conflict Resolution]] * [[Advisory Group on Cross-Cultural Negotiation]] * [[United States Institute of Peace]]'s [[Advisory Committee for Peacemaking in the 21st Century]] * [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]]'s [[Advisory Committee on Conflict Management in the Gulf]] * [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]' [[Committee on Security]] * Chair, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230100/http://www.dd-rd.ca/site/who_we_are/index.php?subsection=board&lang=en] * Board Member, [[Canadian International Council]]
=== Honours === Stein was selected to give the 2001 [[Massey Lecture]].<ref name="Stein">{{cite web |url=https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/profile/stein-janice/|title=Janice Stein|author=Munk School |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date=}}</ref> She was awarded the [[Molson Prize]] by the [[Canada Council]] for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate, was awarded a [[Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation|Trudeau Fellow]]<ref name="Stein"/> in 2003.
She is also the winner of the Mershon Prize for outstanding contribution to public education on issues of national security.
Stein has been awarded honorary degrees by [[Johns Hopkins University]], the [[University of Alberta]], the [[University of Cape Breton]], [[McMaster University]], and [[Hebrew University]].<ref name="Stein"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-23 |title=Six influential leaders, artists receive Johns Hopkins honorary degrees |url=https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/05/23/commencement-2024-honorary-degrees/ |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=The Hub - [[Johns Hopkins University]] |language=en }}</ref>
In 2006, she was made a Member of the [[Order of Canada]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=4828 |title=Order of Canada citation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20060816003943/http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=4828 |archive-date=2006-08-16 }}</ref> The following year, she was awarded the [[Order of Ontario]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Order of Ontario Recipients Announced |url=http://www.citizenship.gov.on.ca/english/news/2007/n20071219.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513214020/http://www.citizenship.gov.on.ca/english/news/2007/n20071219.shtml |archive-date=2008-05-13 }}</ref>
== Publications and commentary == Stein was a long-time member of the foreign affairs panel on the [[TVOntario]] television programs ''[[Studio 2]]'' and ''[[Diplomatic Immunity (Canadian TV series)|Diplomatic Immunity]]'', and continues as a regular guest on ''[[The Agenda]]''. She has also appeared on [[CBC Television]]'s ''[[CBC News: The National|The National]]'' numerous times.
Stein has authored more than 80 books, book chapters and articles on intelligence, international security, negotiation processes, peace-making, and public policy.
=== Books ===
*{{Cite book|last=Stein|first=Janice Gross|title=The Cult of Efficiency|location=Toronto, ON|publisher=[[House of Anansi Press]]|year=2002|isbn=978-0-88-784678-6}}
Coauthored books:
*''Choosing to Cooperate: How States Avoid Loss'', with [[Louis Pauly]] *''We All Lost the Cold War'', with [[Richard Ned Lebow]] *''Powder Keg in the Middle East: The Struggle for Gulf Security'', with [[Geoffrey Kemp]] *''Citizen Engagement in Conflict Resolution: Lessons for Canada in International Experience'', with David Cameron and [[Richard Simeon]] * ''Networks of Knowledge'', with Joy Fitzgibbon and Richard Stren *''The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar'' with [[Eugene Lang (author)|Eugene Lang]]
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/profile/stein-janice/ Janice Stein: Brief Biography (Munk Centre for International Studies)] * [http://www.thecommentary.ca/ontheline/20071115a.html Audio interview (with Eugene Lang) re: The Unexpected War] * [https://snyder.substack.com/p/thinking-live-on-iran-with-janice Thinking Live with Janice Stein - interview with Timothy Snyder 20260307]
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