Last year was a terrific one for the Centre for International Studies. The coming year promises to be even more exciting--and challenging. The process of moving into our new location on the campus of Trinity College has begun. The Munk Centre for International Studies will be occupied in stages over the coming months. CIS will leave the 8th floor of the OISE building in October and move into the South Building of the new Centre. (New address above!) Other centres, institutes, and programs related to international and regional affairs will join us in the South Building; still others will follow as soon as the North Building is completed. At the heart of the Munk Centre will be the John W. Graham Library of Trinity College.

The professors, fellows, associates, and students of CIS are ready to inaugurate a new era and to work more closely with colleagues in other parts of the university and beyond. During the early years of the Munk Centre, Janice Stein, University Professor and Harrowston Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation, will facilitate collaboration among the constituencies represented in the new buildings, whether they happen to have offices there or not. As chair of the new Council of International Studies and director of the Munk Centre, Janice will be assisted by Mary Lynne Bratti, now manager, conference and building services. As most of you know, Mary Lynne has been the heart and soul of CIS for the past nine years. She was a superb administrative assistant to two directors, but her actual role went far beyond anything that could be captured in a job description. Luckily, she won't be too far away from us in the years ahead.

Although retaining their own integrity as cohesive research and teaching units of the University, the interdisciplinary nature of the various centres, institutes, and programs of the Munk Centre is expected to provide new opportunities for collaborative work and new intellectual connections for our students. The Centre will also provide a new means for the University to reach out to the broader national and international communities within which it is embedded. Planning is now underway for a multitude of workshops, seminars, lectures, and conferences. Review the calendar overleaf, and keep checking the CIS web-site. We look forward to welcoming you to our new home. But please be patient with us as we sweep up the plaster dust!

Louis W. Pauly

Last April, Jacques de Larosière, former managing director of the International Monetary Fund and president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, visited CIS and gave a fascinating lecture on contemporary developments in global finance. Anticipating one of the key policy challenges of today, Mr. de Larosière focused his remarks on the necessity of "bailing in" creditors when heavily indebted countries require assistance. That same month, CIS co-sponsored a major conference at Columbia University on China's Accession to the World Trade Organization.

In May, David Wolfe and Meric Gertler hosted a national workshop on "Innovation Systems Research." Also in May was a very successful day-long conference on "Issues in Development Studies," organized by Sonia Laszlo and Eric Santor, both PhD candidates in Economics.

As the summer began, we said good-bye to Annette Zimmer, DAAD Distinguished Visiting Professor of German and European Studies. During her time with us, among many other things, she organized a well-attended and very stimulating international symposium on "A New Agenda for Social Democracy."

Later in the summer, Andrew Price-Smith left CIS to take up a post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University. Andrew's work in health and global affairs broke new ground for CIS. Rafael Gomez completed his PhD in Industrial Relations and accepted a lectureship at the London School of Economics. After completing her doctorate in Political Science, Lisa Mills became a post-doctoral fellow and research associate in the CIS Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems.

Many thanks to the visitors who presented lectures or led seminars last term: Phil Cerny, Peter Hall, Priya Amerasinghe, Robert Campbell, John Comaroff, Paul Shaffer, Claudia Ritter, Harry Arthurs, Paul Harris, David Soskice, Margaret Weir, Keith Banting, Frans van Waarden, Meinhard Miegel, Heiner Ganssmann, Thomas Becker, Jürgen Hoffmann, Jane Lewis, Jürgen Kröger, Kurt Hübner, Dieter Dettke, Andreas Haack, and Rianne Mahon. Thanks also to Michael Mastanduno of Dartmouth and Mark Zacher of UBC, who served as external reviewers of CIS for the School of Graduate Studies.

Just before Labour Day, we welcomed Wolfgang Krieger, a respected historian from the University of Marburg. This year's holder of the DAAD Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Professor Krieger has written books on Weimar Germany and on the early post-World War II period in Europe.

Congratulations to Ashok Acharya from Political Science and Edward Wu from the Faculty of Law, the winners of CIS doctoral fellowships for the 1999/2000 academic year.

Sir Val Duncan travel awards for doctoral research have recently been won by students from History, Anthropology, Geography, and Political Science. Congratulations to Lorne Breienlohner, Barry Burciul, Shaun Curtis, Simone Ghezzi, Melanie Edwards, Catherine Frost, Norma Rantisi, Kathleen Rasmussen, and Mark Thompson.

Professor Susan Horton from the Department of Economics established the newest CIS research program this month. The Program on International Health Policy will bring together researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and a number of social science departments.

Also now moving their offices into CIS will be Meric Gertler (Geography), Richard Sandbrook (Political Science), Harriett Friedmann (Sociology), David Wolfe (Political Science), Rosemary Coombe (Law), and Al Berry (Economics).

Professor Thomas Biersteker, director of the Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University, is visiting CIS during much of the fall term.

Twenty-three students are now registered in the Collaborative MA Program in International Relations, directed by David Welch.

In January 2000, the new holder of the ASEAN Chair at CIS will be Professor Le Ngoc Hung, a sociologist from Hanoi National University.

Sylvia Ostry, "Globalization Implications for Industrial Relations," in Globalization of R & D and Technology Markets, Heidelberg, 1999; Gerald Helleiner, ed., International Monetary and Financial Issues for the 1990, vol 10, UNCTAD, 1999; Louis Pauly, "The Culture of Multinational Corporations and the Implications for Canada," in Room to Manoeuvre? Thomas Courchene, ed., Bell Canada Papers on Economic and Public Policy 6, McGill-Queen's, 1999; Janice Stein, Michael Bryans and Bruce Jones, Humanitarian Action in Complex Political Emergencies, CIS/PCMN, 1999; Peter Hajnal, The G7/G8 System, Ashgate, 1999; Alan Rugman, John Kirton, and Julie Soloway, Environmental Regulation and Corporate Strategy, Oxford, 1999; Meric Gertler and T. Barnes, Towards the New Industrial Geography, Routledge, 1999; Don Brean, ed., Taxation in Modern China, Routledge, 1998; Alan Alexandroff, "NAFTA and Beyond," in Integrating Cities and Regions, UCLA, 1998; Johan Saravanamuttu and Shaun Narine, eds., The Engagement of Civil Society in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Process, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1998; Walter Heinz, ed., From Education to Work: Cross-National Perspectives, Cambridge,1999; Michael Th. Greven, Die Politische Gesellschaft, Leske & Budrich, 1999.