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Christopher M. Sands

Senior Associate, Canada Project

Associated Research Focus:

Americas

Associated Programs:

Americas Program
 Canada

Expertise:

Canadian politics and foreign policy; U.S. policies regarding Canada including the role of the states; U.S.-Canada security cooperation in continental defense and border policies; North American integration, trade, and economics; the North American auto industry; democracy promotion and U.S. national security.

Contact:

(202) 775-3246; (202) 974-2400
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Christopher Sands is a senior associate at CSIS, where he served as director of the Center’s Canada Project from 1995 to 2002, and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Sands is also a senior fellow at the Center for North American Studies at American University, where he is an adjunct professor in government at the School of Public Affairs. From 2002 until 2007, Sands served as the director of strategic planning and evaluation at the International Republican Institute (IRI), a core institute of the National Endowment for Democracy and implementer of democracy and governance programs of the U.S. Agency for International Development and Department of State. He also lectured at the Foreign Service Institute of the State Department. In 2006, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Council of the Americas appointed Sands to the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section of the North American Competitiveness Council, a private-sector consultative group advising the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico in the ongoing North American Security and Prosperity Partnership negotiations. In 1999–2000, he was a Fulbright scholar and visiting fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. Dr. Sands holds a B.A. in political science from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Canadian studies and international economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University.

 

CSIS Publications by Christopher M. Sands
North American Integration Monitor: Trust and Integration - Volume III, Issue 3 - October 2006 10/02/2006
 New Challenges and Opportunities for Canada-U.S. Relations: Preparing for 2009 09/15/2006
 Terrorists in Toronto: Is Canada Secure? Are We? 06/20/2006
 Hemisphere Focus: Canada Changes the Tone on Passports 06/09/2006
 North American Integration Monitor: Different Paths Leading from Cancún - Volume III, Issue 2, 2006 05/01/2006
 Understanding Today’s Trade 03/30/2006
 Canada Rejects Populism—Again 01/24/2006
 North American Integration Monitor: Getting to Know the North American Century - Volume III, Issue 1 - October 2005 10/11/2005
 North American Integration Monitor: North America at Two Speeds - Volume I, Issue 2 — November 2002 11/01/2002
 Canada Focus: Escaping the Leadership Muskeg - Volume III, Issue 2 — September 2002 09/01/2002
 North American Integration Monitor: Integration: Process, Condition, or Doctrine? - Volume I, Issue 1 — July 2002 07/01/2002
 Toward an Index of Relative Economic Integration for North America: Conceptual Paper 06/27/2002
 Canada Focus: The Eavesdropping Problem - Volume III, Issue 1 — January 2002 01/01/2002
 Canada Focus: Canada and the War on Terrorism: the U.S. Challenge on the North American Front - Volume II, Issue 3 — October 2001 10/01/2001
 Canada Focus: Latin America: From the Summit to the Other Side of the Mountain - Volume II, Issue 2 — March 2001 03/01/2001
 Canada Focus: Canada and the Bush Challenge - Volume II, Issue 1 — January 2001 01/01/2001
 Canada Focus: One Economy, Two Systems - Volume I, Issue 3 — November 2000 11/01/2000
 Canada Focus: A Vote for Canadian Equilibrium - Volume I, Issue 2 - September 2000 09/01/2000
 Canada Focus: The God that Failed Canadians - Volume I, Issue 1 — June 2000 06/01/2000
 Hemisphere Focus - Vol. 08, Issue 6 — March 27, 2000 03/27/2000
 Policy Papers on the Americas: Canada-U.S. Relations on the Eve of Prime Minister Chrétien's State Visit to Washington - Volume VIII, 1997 04/02/1997
 Policy Papers on the Americas: Congress and the Americas: Canada, A Case of Local Foreign Policy - Volume VII, 1996 04/15/1996
 Policy Papers on the Americas - Volume VI, 1995 02/17/1995

Christopher M. Sands In the News
Christopher Sands, a Senior Associate with the Canada Project at CSIS, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "Trade Partnership Sparks Backlash." 08/22/2007
 Christopher Sands, a Senior Associate with the Canada Project at CSIS, was quoted by Reuters, "Bush, Harper, Calderon to Tackle Economy, Security." 08/20/2007
 Christopher Sands, a Senior Associate with the Canada Project at CSIS, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Bush Seeks to Boost Canada, Mexico Ties." 08/20/2007
 Chris Sands, director of CSIS's Canada Project, was interviewed for The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU, "Civil Liberties in Canada." 03/27/2007
 CSIS Canada project director Chris Sands was interviewed by WTOP Radio (Washington) regarding, "Suspected Terrorists Arrested in Canada." 06/07/2006
 Why Dollarization is a Canadian Affair 02/21/2002
 If Bush is Bart, We Must be Milhouse 02/15/2001
 Fear and the New Frontier 09/26/2000
 Why Washington is Taking Such a Tough Stand on Magazines 01/25/1999

Testimony by Christopher M. Sands
The U.S. Policy Response to Canada on the Subject of Border Security 01/26/2000
 

 

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