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"Royal Military College Model United Nations 2015 - What an amazing weekend! Congratulations to all the delegates who earned their awards, especially to the Top Delegation, the University of Waterloo. We hope everyone had a insightful, engaging and enjoyable weekend and we hope to see you again next year!"

- Royal Military College Model United Nations organizers

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 Daniel Henstra publishes new article in Global Environmental Change

"Studying Local Climate Adaptation: A Heuristic Research Framework for Comparative Policy Analysis," Global Environmental Change, 31 (2015): 1

The first is a Setting the Scene article: "G20: An Ongoing Evolution" in Melissa Conley Tyler and Nick Snelling (Eds), G20: Words into Action Brisbane 2014 (Australian Institute of International Affairs and Faircount Media, Sydney: 2014).

He has also contributed to a Forum on the G20 in the Caribbean Journal of International Relations @ Diplomacy, "The G20 and Contested Global Governance: BRICS, Middle Powers and Small States."

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

Discover how Dr. Jasmin Habib strives for excellence in teaching in the latest Teaching Story from the Centre of Teaching Excellence, entitled "Giving Voice to Global Stories".

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.

Professors Andrew Cooper and Bessma Momani will present a policy brief, Re-balancing the G20 from Efficiency to Legitimacy: The 3G Coalition and the Practice of Global Governance (PDF), at the Mission of Singapore to the United Nations, New York City, July 8, 2014. This event is held under the auspices of ACUNS and the journal Global Governance.

Professor Anna Esselment co-authored an article entitled "The nature of political advising to prime ministers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK" that was recently published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics.  With Jennifer Lees-Marshment and Alex Marland, Professor Esselment examines the influence of political advisors to the prime ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK.