ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Contents About the School 3 Highlights of the Year 4 Research Clusters 7 Outreach and Events 8 Board of Directors 19 BSIA Community Members 21 PhD Students 24 Masters Students 27 CIGI Policy Briefs 28 Graduates 29 Publications 30 2 About the School The Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) is an institute for advanced research, programs, while CIGI, as a think tank, uses its in-house expertise and its worldwide education, and outreach in the fields of global governance and international public network of practitioners to help inform and guide BSIA’s outreach and collaborative policy. research. The BSIA is also the home to three research centres with an international profile - the Academic Council for the United Nations System (ACUNS), the As a hub in a global network of scholars, practitioners and students, BSIA aims to International Migration Research Centre (IMRC) and the Centre for Sustainable Food develop new solutions to humanity’s critical problems, improve global governance Systems. now and in the future, and enhance the quality of people’s lives around the world. The unique integration of the collaborating institutions’ approaches and cultures gives Founded in 2007 by philanthropist Jim Balsillie, BSIA is an equal collaboration among BSIA an unmatched ability to promote vigorous engagement across boundaries the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), the University of Waterloo of discipline and practice, to connect today’s experts with tomorrow’s leaders in (UW), and Wilfrid Laurier University (Laurier). The collaborating institutions bring critical debate and analysis, and to achieve—in all its work—the highest standards of to BSIA different but complementary strengths, so they have different roles and excellence. responsibilities. The two universities employ BSIA faculty and offer BSIA’s academic 3 Highlights of the Year The Balsillie School of International Affairs had another outstanding year in 2014-15. Our faculty and students continued to be recognized nationally and internationally for the quality of their work. Our graduate programs went from strength to strength, attracting students of the highest calibre. The School entered into a number of new international partnerships for student and faculty exchanges and collaborative research. William Coleman was nominated to be a University Professor at this year’s University of Waterloo convocation. Eric Helleiner won the 2015 “Canadian Political Science Association Prize in International Relations” which is given for “the best book published, in English or French, in the field of international relations in 2013 or 2014” for his book Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods (Cornell U Press, 2014). Alison Mountz will take up the William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair in the Canada Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University for 2015 – 2016. James Walker received the Olivier Le Jeune Award from the Ontario Black History Society, for “trailblazing” historical scholarship. Andrew Cooper, Neil Craik, Eric Helleiner, Suzan Ilcan, Alex Latta, Rianne Mahon, Terry Mitchell, Bessma Momani, Alison Mountz, and Kim Rygiel all received new funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In total, Among the notable honours this year for our faculty was the award of a major SSHRC- our faculty were awarded close to $7 million in new research funding in the 2014-15 IDRC IPASS Partnership grant to Jonathan Crush for the Hungry Cities Partnership; a academic year. Columbia Global Policy Initiative Policy Grant to Eric Helleiner; a Trudeau Foundation Fellowship to Bessma Momani; and the award of the Officer of the Order of the British Faculty published in an impressive array of national and international journals. These Empire (OBE) in the 2015 UK New Year’s Honours List to Alan Whiteside for services included: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and strategic interventions to curb HIV/AIDS. Applied Energy, BIS Papers, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Canadian Public 4 Policy, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Cooperation and Conflict, Conflict, Security and Development, Cultural Geographies, Cultural Politics, Current History, Diplomatic History, European Journal of Social Theory, Foreign Affairs, Geographica Helvetica, Global Governance, Global Social Policy, Globalization and Health, International Journal, International Journal of Central Banking, International Journal of Sociology, International Negotiation, International Political Sociology, International Politics, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of International Migration and Integration, Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Social Science and Medicine, and The Lancet. They also published books with leading international publishers including Oxford University Press, Polity, Routledge, the University of Pennsylvania Press, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the World Bank. This academic year saw the consolidation of the six research clusters that the School The two research centres housed by the School—the International Migration has identified as its core areas of expertise: Conflict and Security; Environment Research Centre (http://www.imrc.ca/), and the Academic Council on the United and Resources; Global Political Economy; Migration, Mobilities and Social Politics; Nations system (http://acuns.org/)--continued to attract a great deal of positive Multilateral Institutions; and Science and Health Policy. Each of the clusters had an international attention for their work. At the end of the year, the School was delighted active program of events during the year, contributing to the more than 100 events to welcome a third major research centre—the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems that the School hosted (details of which are in the Outreach and Events section of (http://legacy.wlu.ca/research/food)--which will be the central node of the Food: Locally this report). Our partnership with the Embassy of France through the Saint-Simon Embedded, Globally Engaged network that is supported by a SSHRC Partnership Initiative enabled us to bring several distinguished faculty from French universities to Grant. the School, and for one of our PhD students to undertake research in France. Graduate Programs The Global Political Economy cluster and the Environment and Resources cluster both ran workshops that brought PhD students from programs across Canada and Our students received a total of $815,000 in external funding for 2015-16. This the United States to Waterloo to present their research. The School also hosted, included a Trudeau Fellowship, won by Tahnee Prior, only the second ever awarded in conjunction with CIGI’s International Law Research Program, the inaugural to a University of Waterloo student, and the first since 2003. Tahnee also received a International Law Summer Institute. Co-directed by Neil Craik and Sara Seck (Western Vanier Fellowship. Jennifer Kanjili and Diana Thomaz both received Trillium awards University), the week-long workshop provided an introduction to international law while Skylar Brooks, Charis Enns and Sara Rose all were successful in SSHRC doctoral for students in non-law Masters and PhD programs. With the support of a SSHRC funding competitions. Connection grant awarded to Neil Craik, we were able to bring students to the workshop from as far as British Columbia and the Maritimes. 5 The annual CIGI Graduate Fellowship symposium, opened by Mr. Jim Balsillie, was a Lucie Edwards, a PhD candidate at Waterloo, has been elected National Chair of great success. Former Ambassador Michael Bell was the keynote speaker. Two of the Partners in Health Canada. groups of Masters students subsequently presented their policy briefs at meetings in Washington, D.C. The Asia-Pacific Security project group (Joëlle Charbonneau, Katie Congratulations to faculty, staff and students, for all their hard work in making for Heelis, and Jinelle Piereder), directed by David Welch, presented their Air Defence another outstanding year. Identification Zone policy brief at the National Security Council, the State Department, and American University School of International Service. Bessma Momani’s group (Jonathan Diab and Anna Klimbovskaia) attended the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Washington, DC and used the opportunity to talk about their policy brief. In June, the MIPP students had their annual visit to Ottawa hosted by former Canadian Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, Paul Heinbecker. While in Ottawa, the students met with various government officials, politicians and several former Canadian ambassadors. Once again, they were kindly hosted by Ambassador Cees Kole at the Dutch Embassy Residence. In December 2014, the School signed an agreement with the United Nations Association of Canada through which up to six of our students each year will have an internship in the UN system. In October 2014, the University of Waterloo (UW) and the University of Konstanz in Germany finalized an exchange agreement between our John Ravenhill Master of Arts in Global Governance (MAGG) program and the International Director Administration and Conflict Management program at Konstanz. In April 2015, UW and the University of Warwick finalized a double degree option between the MAGG and Warwick’s Department Politics and International Studies; the MAGG has accepted four Warwick students for the 2015-2016 academic year. 6 Research Clusters Environment Global Political Security