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Michael Ignatieff
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Canadian professor, writer and politician
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1947
- Works
- 57
Top works
- Isaiah Berlin
- Strategic transformation in response to the evolving needs of victims of conflict
- Reimagining foreign policy in the age of global cities
- Breaking ice
- The Russian album
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Film & TV
Writing · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Michael Grant Ignatieff PC CM (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011.
Known for
- Antonia and Jane — Himself1990
- ScreenPlay — Michael Ignatieff1986
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 13
- Total plays
- 56
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 88,573x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,854x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,841x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,635x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,567x
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Quotes
- “The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.”
- “To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.”
- “The difference between us and terrorists is supposed to be that we play by these rules, even if they don't. No, I haven't forgotten Hiroshima and My Lai. The American way of war has often been brutal, but at least our warriors are supposed to fight with honor and can be punished if they don't. There is no warrior's honor among terrorists.”
- “A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.”
- “You shouldn’t go into politics just to prove yourself—skydiving would be an easier path.”
- “Ever since I entered Parliament in January, people have been asking me: Why have you gone into politics? As in: “Are you nuts?” No, I’m not nuts. This is my country, after all.”
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- John Shattuck
- Succeeded by
- Shalini Randeria
- Deputy
- Ralph Goodale
- Leader
- Stéphane Dion Himself (interim)
- Born
- Michael Grant Ignatieff , ( 1947-05-12 ) May 12, 1947 (age 79) , Toronto , Ontario , Canada
- Party
- Liberal
- Spouses
- Susan Barrowclough ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1977 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1997 ) Zsuzsanna Zsohar ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1999 )
- Parent
- George Ignatieff (father)
- Relatives
- Nikolay Ignatyev (great-grandfather) Paul Ignatieff (grandfather)
- Education
- University of Toronto ( BA ), University of Oxford , Harvard University ( MA , PhD )
- Website
- Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
Michael Grant Ignatieff PC CM (/ɪɡˈnætiɛf/ ig-NAT-ee-ef; born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, and Toronto. Most recently, he was rector and president of Central European University; he held this position from 2016 to 2021.
While living in the United Kingdom from 1978 to 2000, Ignatieff became well known as a television and radio broadcaster and as an editorial columnist for The Observer. His documentary series Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism aired on BBC in 1993, and won a Canadian Gemini Award. His book of the same name, based on the series, won the Gordon Montador Award for Best Canadian Book on Social Issues and the University of Toronto's Lionel Gelber Prize. His memoir, The Russian Album, won Canada's Governor General's Literary Award and the British Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Prize in 1988. His novel, Scar Tissue, was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1994. In 2000, he delivered the Massey Lectures, entitled The Rights Revolution, which was released in print later that year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michael Ignatieff” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.