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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. 

Professor Cooper will present a paper on "India and the Search for Fairness in Global Governance: “Catching up” with Formal Organizations Versus Adapting to Informalism," at an International Symposium, “Towards a Desirable Future for India in an Increasingly Globalised Society," Organised by the Institute for Human Development (IHD), March 9-11, 2014, India International Centre, New Delhi.

Prof. Kathryn Hochstetler publishes new article on Brazil

Professor Kathryn Hochstetler published a new article co-authored with Alfred Montero in Journal of Development Studies. See Kathryn Hochstetler and Alfred P. Montero. 2013. The Renewed Developmental State: The National Development Bank and the Brazil Model. Journal of Development Studies 49(11): 1484-1499.

Professor Anna Drake has two new publications

The first of Prof. Drake's new  publications is “Secularism, Religious Diversity, and Democratic Politics.” 2013. Secular States and Religious Diversity. Eds. Bruce Berman, Rajeev Bhargava, and André Laliberté. Vancouver: UBC Press, 293-309.

Professor Eric Helleiner publishes new article on the relationship between carbon markets and financial regulation

Professor Eric Helleiner published a new article co-authored with Jason Thistlethwaite in the December 2013 issue of the journal Regulation and Governance. The article is titled: Subprime Catalyst: Financial Regulatory Reform and the Strengthening of US Carbon Market Governance.

Prof. Veronica Kitchen interviewed on teaching with simulations

Professor Veronica Kitchen was interviewed by Mark Morton of the Centre for Teaching Excellence on teaching with simulations.

Prof. Veronica Kitchen and Political Science undergraduate students involved in Global Youth Forum

Professor Veronica Kitchen and several Political Science undergraduate students were involved in the Centre for International Governance Innovation Global Youth Forum on December 6 where they ran a crisis simulation for 150 high school students.

Professor Eric Helleiner presents research on Financial Stability Board in South Korea

Professor Eric Helleiner presented a paper titled Was a New Fourth Pillar of Global Economic Architecture Created in 2009? The FSB and the Post-Crisis Governance of International Standards to an international conference on the theme of “The Political Economy of Financial Regulatory Reforms since the Global Finance Crisis”, at the Global Campus, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, November 18, 2013.