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In Person with: John Kirton

By CEECEE LU and SARAH JANE VASSALLO for urbanemagazine.org
Professor John Kirton is the founder and director of the G8/G20 Research Groups, an organization of scholars, students and professional researchers who are dedicated to independent analysis on the G groups. He is currently a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. [...]

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