About David A. Welch David A. Welch is CIGI Chair of Global Security in the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo. Books by David A. Welch Japan as a 'Normal Country'? A Nation in Search of Its Place in the World edited by Yoshihide Soeya, David A. Welch & Masayaki Tadokoro The Cuban Missile Crisis A Concise History by (author) Don Munton & David A. Welch