News from the Centre for International Studies

January, 2001

CIS welcomed its first three post-doctoral fellows: Adam Harmes, Marie-Joelle Zahar, and Paul Shaffer. Barry Burciul and Chi Truong are this year's CIS doctoral fellows. Lisa Mills is the first Donner Fellow to be sent by CIS to Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies under a new post-doctoral exchange program supported by the Donner Canadian Foundation.

CIS hosted an international sociological conference in October. "Modernity, Plurality and Exclusion: Social Problems in the Contemporary City" was organized by Michal Bodemann.

John Kirton, and a faculty team based at CIS and supported by a strategic research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, launched the EnviReform Project: Strengthening Canada's Environmental Community through International Regime Reform. The first annual conference, focusing on "Twenty-First Century Challenges," was held in the Munk Centre in November. See http://www.envireform.utoronto.ca.

The Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems, directed by David Wolfe and Meric Gertler, continues its extensive activities as the node for the Ontario Network on the Regional Innovation System and the national secretariat for the Innovation Systems Research Network. For further information, see http://www.utoronto.ca/onris and http://www.utoronto.ca/isrn.

In December, Gerry Helleiner delivered the prestigious Raul Prebisch Lecture at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva.

Sylvia Ostry has two new projects underway, one with the Inter-American Dialogue and the Inter-American Development Bank on processes of trade policymaking leading up to the Summit of the Americas in April 2001, the other for the International Institute for Sustainable Development on the impact of industrial subsidies on environmental degradation. In recognition of her continuing contribution to public policy, on November 30th, Sylvia was presented with the 2000 Career Achievement Award at the Canadian Policy Research Awards Dinner in Ottawa.

The CIS Friday luncheon seminars continue to attract very large and diverse audiences. Among general sessions, a new mini-series organized by Richard Sandbrook around the theme Reforming Globalization complements a series on Local Responses to Globalization led by Katharine Rankin and Sue Horton. A related workshop on "Just Development," was hosted by the Collaborative MA Program in International Relations. For past and future CIS event calendars, see http://www.utoronto.ca/cis.

Recent publications:

Albert Berry, ed., Labor Market Policies in Canada and Latin America: Challenges of the New Millennium, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

John J. Kirton, Joseph Daniels, and Andreas Freytag, eds., Guiding Global Order: G8 Governance in the Twenty-First Century, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2000.

J. Adam Holbrook and David Wolfe, eds. Innovation, Institutions and Territory: Regional Innovation Systems in Canada, Kingston, ON: Queens' University School of Policy Studies, 2000.

Michael Th. Greven and Louis W. Pauly, eds. Democracy Beyond the State?, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Richard Sandbrook, Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa, Toronto: Between the Lines, 2000.

Sylvia Ostry, "The Multilateral Trading System," in Handbook of International Business, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.