On September 15 2015, the Trudeau Foundation announced that Professor Bessma Momani, a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, was awarded one of five 2015 Trudeau Foundation Fellowships.
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.
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.”
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!
The department of Political Science would like to congratulate Jud Whiteside and Benjamin Ries for their outstanding achievements!
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.
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:
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