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

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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.”

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

Professor Ashok Kapur publishes new article in Indian Council of World Affairs

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

Professor Coleman helps co-organize the International Conference on Public Policy

Professor William Coleman is a co-organizer, with Professor Diane Stone, of three panels on "Global Public Policy" to be held at the International Conference on Public Policy in Grenoble June 26-28 2013.