Andrew Cooper is participating at the BPC-GIGA Conference on Rising Powers and Contested Orders in the Multipolar System, Rio de Janeiro, 19-20 September 2013
Andrew Cooper has co-edited a Special Issue of Third World Quarterly (34, 6 2013) on the theme of "Foreign Policy Strategies of Emerging Powers in a Multipolar World"
In this issue:
New York, United States
From left to right:
Jorge Heine, CIGI Chair in Global Governance, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Professor of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University
China's Changing Approach to Strategy and Negotiations: Past and Present
Professor William Coleman is a co-organizer, with Professor Diane Stone, of three panels on "Global Public Policy" to be held at the International Conference on Public Policy in Grenoble June 26-28 2013.
Global power is becoming more diffuse, smarter, and more asymmetric. In developing this extended argument, we make four points. First, the G20 Seoul Summit in November 2010 showed that the G20 is becoming increasingly embedded as the hub of global economic governance. Second, a strong G20 has positive attributes for global governance. Third, a main driving force for the ascent of the G20 has been and will continue to be middle power leadership.
Hydropower dams may be an unlikely new weapon for conservationists trying to save tropical trees. A new study reveals that vast forests are necessary to keep rivers flowing and turbines spinning. Without them, the dams produce significantly less power than they would otherwise. "The idea that protecting tropical forest is necessary for sustainable hydropower is a new argument," says Kathryn Hochstetler of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Jasmin Habib has organized and will be chairing the roundtable "Histories and Reflections on Engagement with and among James Bay Crees of Northern Quebec" at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society being held at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, May 7 to 11.
Andrew Cooper co-authors new book with Jorge Heine and Ramesh Thakur
Oxford University Press
Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy
Britain also claims it has evidence chemical weapons have been used in Syria. Associate professor at the University of Waterloo and CIGI Senior Fellow Bessma Momani discusses.