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