News

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!

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.

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.