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At Arts convocation, William Coleman of the Department of Political Science received the distinguished title of University Professor. He joins an extraordinary group of only sixteen such title-holders at Waterloo who have been recognized for their “exceptional scholarly achievement and international pre-eminence in a particular field or fields of knowledge.”

How Nations Innovate: The Political Economy of Technological Innovation in Affluent Capitalist Economies

The department of Political Science would like to congratulate the University of Waterloo Model United Nations Club for their impressive achievements at this years North American Model United Nations Conference in Toronto.

This year's winners include:

• Best Position Paper:
  Security Council
  Joint Crisis

• Outstanding Delegate:
  SPECPOL

CONGRATULATIONS to all the students involved in making this such a successful event!

To All students, alumni and friends of the PSCI Department:

We are interested in creating a logo for Political Science at Waterloo. Our plan is to use it on fair trade, organic cotton T-shirts this fall, but with the possibility of being able to print it on hoodies, mugs, and other items that we can use for departmental fundraising.

Professor Eric Helleiner has published a new book titled Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order (Cornell University Press, 2014). The new book provides a powerful corrective to conventional accounts of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944.

"Is Isreal an Apartheid State"

Professor Jasmin Habib will be speaking at the Wilfrid Laurier University Seminary (SEM 101) on November 7th, 2013 at 4:30pm.

Professor Habib is an expert on diaspora and refugee identities, their political formations and engagements with their "homelands."  Her current research, entitled "Critical Distance", focuses on emigre Isrealis and their relationships to the Isreal/Palestine conflict

Professor Emmett Macfarlane publishes new article for the Review of Constitutional Studies

Conceptual Precision and Parliamentary Systems of Rights: Disambiguating “Dialogue”

A uWaterloo Political Science collaboration!

Andrew Cooper has co-edited a Special Issue of Third World Quarterly (34, 6 2013) on the theme of "Foreign Policy Strategies of Emerging Powers in a Multipolar World" 

In this issue:

Another Successful launch for the Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy!

New York, United States

From left to right:
Jorge Heine, CIGI Chair in Global Governance, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Professor of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University