News

The Department of Political Science is very proud that Professor Eric Helleiner, was among the newly-announced fellows of the Royal Society of Canada – people who have been peer-elected as the best in their field.  The fellowship of the Royal Society consists of individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the arts, the humanities, social science, science, and Canadian public life.

Public Policy, Rights, and Abortion Access in Canada

Abstract:

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!

"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

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

Professor Cooper publishes new article in Global Summitry Journal

Middle Power Leadership and the Evolution of the G20

Global power is becoming more diffuse, smarter, and more asymmetric. In developing this extended argument, we make four points. First, the G20 Seoul Summit in November 2010 showed that the G20 is becoming increasingly embedded as the hub of global economic governance. Second, a strong G20 has positive attributes for global governance. Third, a main driving force for the ascent of the G20 has been and will continue to be middle power leadership.