As noted in the last newsletter, CIS is moving--in more ways than one. Intellectually, that motion occurs as new faculty, students, and visitors participate in the expanding activities of the Centre. Physically, we certainly hope to be comfortably in our promised new location by the time you are reading this newsletter.

Construction delays may have postponed the opening of the new Munk Centre for International Studies, but they have not dampened our enthusiasm. When it is finally ready, the new building will be an outstanding resource for the University community.

In any event, and as you will see overleaf, a full schedule of events is planned for the first term of 2000. We have had to scramble for rooms, but by next fall we should be able to count on new seminar and conference facilities being available. We'll keep you posted.

All of us associated with CIS remain deeply indebted to our hard-working--and extremely patient--staff and student assistants: Mary Lynne Bratti, Tina Lagopoulos, Evi Schipani, Eileen Lam, Jonathan Papoulidis, Gabor Lipcsey, Vlado Savic, Dina Lander, Barbara Tiede, Matthew Douglas, and Scott Bohaker. I wish them--and you--a very happy new year.

Louis W. Pauly
 

In Retrospect

Highlights from last term's events included an outstanding lecture in December by Maurice Strong. The theme was "Global Governance for Sustainability." The text will be available on our web-site soon.

Strong's lecture fit exceptionally well with one presented by George Alleyne earlier in the term. Dr. Alleyne, Director of the Pan-American Health Organization, spoke on "Health and Wealth in the Global Economy." The lecture dovetailed very nicely with parallel work programs now evolving in the Faculty of Medicine and CIS on issues of international health policy. CIS members Sue Horton, John Dirks, David Zakus, Jay Keystone, and Catherine Chalin are all helping to push this work along.

Scott Eddie organized a very successful international conference in September on "International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on German Economic and Social History."

Germany was central to another CIS conference two months later. In view of the worldwide celebrations just then taking place commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall, Michal Bodemann's timing was perfect for a conference entitled, "Divided Through Unity? Politics, Culture and Society in Germany after Ten Years."

Leading a stimulating October workshop in the Collaborative MA Program in International Relations were Bill Dymond from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Barry Appleton of Appleton and Associates, and Tony Clark from Polaris and the Council of Canadians. Their topic: "National Sovereignty and the Regulation of Foreign Investment: Lessons of NAFTA and the MAI."

We were fortunate to have as visitors to the CIS Program on Latin America and the Caribbean, Julio Vázquez and Luis Marcelo. In October, Mr. Vázquez, Deputy Minister for the Economy and Planning of the Republic of Cuba, gave a public seminar on "The Impact of Economic Reforms in Cuba."

The regular CIS seminars and the development seminar series continue to flourish. Recent presenters included Tom Biersteker from Brown University, Leo Panitch from York University, Patrick Weil from the Centre for the Study of the Politics of Immigration in Paris, and Kari Levitt from McGill University.

Home-grown contributors to CIS seminars and workshops during the term included Ron Pruessen, Al Berry, Heather MacLean, John Kirton, Liesbet Hooghe, Joy Esberey, and Wolfgang Krieger (whom we will claim as our own until he returns to the University of Marburg in April 2000).

Congratulations and best wishes to Julie Soloway, who completed her doctorate in law.
 

New People

Welcome to Scott Bohaker, who helped us run CIS during its last month in the OISE building. Scott will be the first person most people will likely see when they enter the Munk Centre. He'll be running the reception desk and the communications centre, as soon as the building opens. Scott comes to us after playing a similarly critical role at Hart House.

In January 2000, the new holder of the ASEAN Chair at CIS will be Professor Le Ngoc Hung, a sociologist from Hanoi National University. We are very grateful to the Canadian International Development Agency for continuing to support this important initiative.
 

Recent Publications

Gerald Helleiner, ed., Capital Account Regimes and the Developing Countries, London: Macmillan, 1999 (reprinted in paperback); Sylvia Ostry, "Future of the WTO," in Governing in a Global Economy, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1999; and "Coherence in Global Policy-Making? Is this possible?" Canadian Business Economics, vol. 7, no. 3, 1999; Louis Pauly, "Good Governance and Bad Policy: The Perils of International Organizational Overextension," Review of International Political Economy, vol. 6, no. 4, 1999; John Kirton, Michael Hodges, and Joseph Daniels, eds. The G8's Role in the New Millennium, Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999; Meric Gertler and David Wolfe, eds, Innovation and Social Learning: Institutional Adaptation in an Era of Technological Change, London: Macmillan, 1999

Very soon completing its journey from the CIS conference room to the bookstore shelf is Democracy beyond the State? The European Dilemma and the Emerging Global Order, edited by Michael Th. Greven and Louis Pauly, published jointly by Rowman & Littlefield and the University of Toronto Press.
 
 
 
 

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