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The Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo are deeply concerned by the United States government's Executive Order banning travel to the USA for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, banning all refugees for 120 days and suspending the arrival of Syrian refugees indefinitely.

On December 1, students from PSCI 299 (Political Science Beyond the Classroom) participated in a speed-networking event held in the Velocity Start space in South Campus Hall with six PSCI alumni, from both the public and private sector.

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.”

How Nations Innovate: The Political Economy of Technological Innovation in Affluent Capitalist Economies

This is Eric Helleiner's third book publication of the year, with The Status Quo Crisis and Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: I

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.