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.
Benjamin C. Ries (BA ‘06 Political Science and Arts Applied Studies Co-op) is the recipient of the Faculty of Arts Young Alumni Award. The award recognizes Arts young alumni who have made outstanding contributions to their professional field and in community and public service.
Professor Andrew Cooper, accompanied by Professor Jorge Heine of Wilfrid Laurier University, will be the convenor of the first module on Contemporary Diplomacy taking place May 7-13, 2014 at The Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean, Institute of International Relations of the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad.
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.
In the 8th Käte Hamburger Lecture, Prof. Andrew Cooper will examine the rise of pivotal informal summitry/organizations, above all the G20 and the BRICS, and the implications of this phenomenon for global governance. At a basic level informal organizations differ from the formal institutions such as the United Nations (UN) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a number of key ways: membership structure; foundational or legitimizational character and level of bureaucracies.
Professor John Jaworsky has been interviewed extensively in recent days on the Ukrainian political situation. One recent interview was on CTV News and another was featured on Waterloo News.