My research program focuses on the projection of Canada’s image in the international arena and the use of communications technologies in diplomacy.
Potter received his B.A. in political studies at Queen’s University at Kingston, his M.A. in international affairs at The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and his Ph.D in international relations at the London School of Economics in the U.K.
Potter is author of the book Transatlantic Partners: Canadian Approaches to the European Union (1999) and editor of several books including Cyberdiplomacy: Foreign Policy in the 21st Century (2002). He has just completed a book entitled, Branding Canada: Projecting Canada’s Soft Power Through Public Diplomacy. With the support of a research award from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Potter is examining the use of culture and higher education as instruments of public diplomacy in Canada’s Circumpolar relations with the United States, Russia and the Nordic nations.
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