Edelgard Elspeth Mahant is a Canadian academic, who teaches political science at York University's Glendon College in Toronto, Ontario and University of Botswana.
[1][2] She formerly taught at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, where she was also the Ontario Liberal Party candidate in the electoral district of Sudbury East in the 1985 provincial election.
[3] She completed her studies at the Universities of British Columbia (BA) and Toronto (MA) and obtained her PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science with a thesis titled "French and German Attitudes to the Establishment of the European Economic Community, 1955-1957".
[1][2] Mahant is specialized in foreign policy, including the politics of the European Union, Free trade and International Relations.
She has cowritten two books on Canada-United States relations with historian Graeme S. Mount: Other books Mahant is also the author of several other books and publications:[1][4]