Biography
Patricia Goff (PhD Northwestern) is an Associate Professor of political science at Wilfrid Laurier University and Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), both in Waterloo, Ontario. She specializes in international political economy, international relations theory, and international organizations, with a particular interest in trade and the cultural capacity of international organizations. She has held visiting positions at the School of International Relations, University of Southern California and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She is the author of
Limits to Liberalization: Local Culture in a Global Market Place (Cornell University Press) and co-editor of
Identity and Global Politics: Empirical and Theoretical Elaborations (with Kevin Dunn) and
Irrelevant or Indispensable: The UN in the 21st Century (with Paul Heinbecker). She is the author of the Cultural Diplomacy chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy and the Cultural Diplomacy entry in the Oxford Bibliographies series. Recent publications include ‘Limits to Deep Integration: Canada between the EU and the US,’
Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2018); ‘NAFTA 2.0: Whither the Cultural Exemption?’
International Journal (2017); ‘The Museum as a Transnational Actor’,
Arts and International Affairs (2016) and ‘Public diplomacy at the global level: The Alliance of Civilizations as a community of practice,’
Cooperation and Conflict (2015).
