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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.

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 Ashok Kapur publishes new article in Indian Council of World Affairs

China's Changing Approach to Strategy and Negotiations: Past and Present

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.