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World-leading Think Tank on inTernaTional governanceFounded in 2001, The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is an independent, non-partisan think tank on international governance challenges. Led by experienced practitioners and distinguished academics, CIGI aims to anticipate emerging trends in international governance and to strengthen multilateral responses to the world’s most pressing problems. CIGI advances policy ideas and debate by conducting studies, forming networks and convening scholars, practitioners and policy makers.

By operating an active program of publications, events, conferences and workshops, CIGI builds capacity to effect change in international public policy. CIGI is advised by an International Advisory Board. The organization is housed in the historic former Seagram Museum building in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by Research In Motion (RIM) co-CEO and philanthropist Jim Balsillie, who also serves as CIGI’s chair. CIGI is funded by private and public donations. It gratefully acknowledges the support of the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario.

vision

CIGI strives to be the world’s leading think tank on international governance, with recognized impact on significant global problems.

Mission

CIGI will build bridges from knowledge to power, conducting world-leading research and analysis, and influencing policy makers to innovate.

Beliefs

CIGI believes that better international governance can improve the lives of people everywhere, by increasing prosperity, ensuring global sustainability, addressing inequality and safeguarding human rights and promoting a more secure world.

About CIGI

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cigi’s Policy research occurs in four areas

gloBal econoMy

Addressing the need for sustainable and balanced economic growth, the Global Economy program is a central area of CIGI expertise. Its importance was heightened by the global financial crisis of 2009, which gave impetus to formation of the G20 leaders’ summits — a development for which CIGI experts had advocated.

environMenT and energy

Planet Earth faces severe and growing stresses as a result of human development and consumption. The Environment and Energy program at CIGI focuses on governance issues related to climate change, geo-engineering and alternative energy. Ideas arising from CIGI’s fall 2010 conference, Climate of Action, are helping to define the program.

gloBal develoPMenT

This program of CIGI research and policy analysis explores issues such as aid, health, education and equality from an international governance perspective. Projects include the Africa Initiative, a five-year undertaking with Makerere University examining policies in health, migration and the crosscutting issue of climate change.

gloBal securiTy

Since humans first began to deploy weaponry in inter-tribal warfare, our greatest danger has been, collectively, from ourselves — and at no time has the risk been greater than in the modern age, with its weapons of mass destruction. CIGI’s Global Security program focuses on a range of issues in peace, conflict, security and building states.

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advancing Policy ideas and deBaTe

The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) produces policy-oriented publications — books, conference and special reports, paper series, commentaries and policy briefs — written by CIGI’s distinguished academics, experienced practitioners and researchers.

Through its publications program, CIGI aims to inform decision makers, foster dialogue and debate on policy-relevant ideas and strengthen multilateral responses to the most significant international governance issues.

With a solid foundation of comprehensive research and rich international experience, CIGI’s mission is to build bridges from knowledge to power, by being the leading global resource on international governance informing policy makers, scholars, practitioners and the interested public.

cigi g20 resources: recenT releasesChallenges and Opportunities for the French Presidency: The G20 — 2011 and BeyondConference Report and Background Papers For more on the G20, see: www.cigionline.org/G20.

National Perspectives on Global Leadership: Soundings Series — Summitry and Public Perceptions Preface by Colin Bradford For more on the NPGL Soundings Series, see: www.cigionline.org/npgl.

The G20 Agenda and Process: Analysis and Insight by CIGI Experts Compiled and with an introduction by Max Brem For all CIGI G20 commentaries, see: www.cigionline.org/publications/webcommentary.

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Preventing Crises and Promoting Economic Growth: A Framework for International Policy Cooperation Paola Subacchi and Paul Jenkins

The way in which nations design their economic policies is woefully inadequate to prevent financial and economic crises, according to this report copublished by CIGI and Chatham House, governments need to grasp the international implications of their

domestic policies, recognizing that their decisions can cause ripples across an integrated world economy.

recenT Books By cigi felloWs

Getting Back in the Game: A Foreign Policy Playbook for CanadaPaul Heinbecker

Has Canada lost its place in the world? Are we destined for a future as a middle power, denied a seat at the “grown-ups table?” Paul Heinbecker, CIGI distinguished fellow, career diplomat and former permanent ambassador to the UN strongly

disagrees. Order this book at: www.amazon.ca.

Internet Gambling OffshoreCaribbean Struggles over Casino Capitalism Andrew F. Cooper

The global gambling market is estimated to be worth some US$335 billion and offshore Internet gambling is taking an increasing share of this lucrative market. This is the first major study dealing with Internet gambling as an integral component of the world

economy. Order this book at: www.palgrave.com.

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national perSpectiveS on Global leaderShipSoundinGS SerieS: Summitry and public perceptionS

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THE G20 AGENDA AND PROCESSAnalysis and Insight by CIGI Experts

Compiled and with an introduction by Max Brem

Manmohan AgarwalAlan S. AlexandroffThomas A. BernesColin Bradford

Jorge Braga de MacedoBarry CarinGregory ChinJennifer ClappAndrew F. Cooper

John M. CurtisPaul HeinbeckerEric HelleinerRohinton MedhoraBessma Momani

Daniel SchwanenPierre SiklosGordon SmithJohn Whalley

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securiTy secTor reforM

Edited by Mark Sedra

THE FUTURE OF SECURITY SECTOR REFORM

The Future of Security Sector ReformeBook, Editor Mark Sedra

At a time when the US, Canada and their coalition partners are re-evaluating their roles and exit strategies in

Afghanistan and other broken states, this book provides a crucial understanding of the complexities of reforming and transforming the security and justice architecture of the state.

gloBal governanceThe Dark Side of GlobalizationJorge Heine and Ramesh Thakur

Published by the United Nations University Press in cooperation with CIGI, this new book asks how governments,

international organizations and civil society can mute the baleful effects of globalization while maximizing the beneficial consequences. Order this book at: www.amazon.ca.

Policy BriefsPolicy Brief no.20 | September 2010

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CIGI Policy Briefs present topical,

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policy makers and scholars on

multifaceted global issues.

Available for download at:

www.cigionline.org/publications

Improving the Governance of the Food Aid Convention: Which Way Forward?Jennifer Clapp and C. Stuart Clark

Key Points

• The Food Aid Convention (FAC), the international agreement that sets out the rules and donor commitments governing food aid for the world’s hungry, is under renegotiation with a deadline of June 2011.

• The FAC’s outdated governance mechanisms have damaged the Convention’s overall effectiveness and legitimacy. The FAC needs to become more transparent, coordinate better with other organizations, increase stakeholder participation and strengthen arm’s length monitoring and evaluation.

• Moving the Convention’s governance to Paris or Rome instead of London has been proposed because of the proximity to related international organizations. Such a move, however, may not address all of the governance problems.

• The creation of a technical review committee that would foster the necessary coordination with external bodies with expertise in food aid, food security and humanitarian assistance could improve the FAC’s governance and legitimacy regardless of its location.

Introduction

Informal talks began in mid-2010 on renegotiating the FAC with a view to adopting a new agreement by June 2011.1 The FAC is an international agreement that sets out the rules and minimum commitments for member countries which donate international food aid to feed hungry people in developing countries. The existing Convention is dated and requires revision on a number of fronts (Clay 2010; Hoddinott, Cohen and Barrett 2008; Barrett and Maxwell 2006), particularly in the current context of high food insecurity and volatile world food markets (FAO 2009a; FAO 2010). The effectiveness of the FAC as a mechanism to provide appropriate and predictable minimum levels of food aid to those in need has been diminishing to the point of virtual invisibility in the midst of the recent food price crisis — a clear illustration of its fading legitimacy.

Improving the Governance of the Food Aid Convention: Which Way Forward?Jennifer Clapp and C. Stuart Clark, CIGI Policy Brief #20

Developing Countries — Even China — Cannot Rescue the World EconomyManmohan Agarwal, CIGI Policy Brief #18

cigi g20 PaPers

Addressing International Governance Challenges

Eric Helleiner

CIGI G20 Papers | No. 1, June 2010

The Financial Stability Board and International Standards

Emanating from CIGI’s G20 work program, the CIGI G20 Papers seek to examine and understand options for the G20 agenda and institutional issues, such as the response to the economic crisis.

The Financial Stability Board and International StandardsEric Helleiner CIGI G20 Paper No. 1

Making the Summit Process Work: Some Proposals for Improving Effectiveness and LegitimacyBarry Carin, Gordon Smith, Paul Heinbecker and Ramesh Thakur CIGI G20 Paper No. 2

The G20 and the Post-Crisis Economic OrderAndrew F. Cooper and Colin Bradford CIGI G20 Paper No. 3

sPecial rePorTs

Special Report

The Financial Stability Board:An Eff ective Fourth Pillar of

Global Economic Governance?

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The Financial Stability Board: An Effective Fourth Pillar of Global Economic Governance?Eric Helleiner, Ngaire Woods and Stephany Griffith-Jones

Leadership and the Global Governance Agenda: Three VoicesAlan S. Alexandroff, David Shorr and Wang Zaibang

The africa iniTiaTive

Edited by Hany Besada and Nelson K. Sewankambo

CIGI Special ReportClimate Change in Africa:

Adaptation, Mitigation and Governance Challenges

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Climate Change in Africa: Adaptation, Mitigation and Governance ChallengesHany Besada and Nelson Sewankambo

Visit the Africa Portal at www.africaportal.org for more information.

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NUCLEAR ENERGY FUTURES PROJECTCHAIR: LOUISE FRÉCHETTE DIRECTOR: TREVOR FINDLAY

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L’ÉNERGIE NUCLÉAIRE ET LA GOUVERNANCE MONDIALE À L’HORIZON 2030Plan d’action

CIGI’s Nuclear Energy Futures Papers present research commissioned by the Nuclear Energy Futures Project, which examined the scope of the purported nuclear

energy revival over the coming two decades and its implications for global governance.

The Nuclear Energy Futures Project was chaired by Louise Fréchette and directed by Trevor Findlay. CIGI outputs from the project include: Nuclear Energy and Global Governance to 2030: An Action Plan and The Future of Nuclear Energy to 2030 and Its Implications for Safety, Security and Nonproliferation: Final Report released in five parts — Overview, Part 1: The Future of Nuclear Energy to 2030, Part 2: Nuclear Safety, Part 3: Nuclear Security and Part 4: Nuclear Nonproliferation.

cariBBean PaPersThe Centre for International Governance Innovation

THE CARIBBEAN PAPERSA Project on Caribbean Economic Governance

The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA):

Towards a New Era for Caribbean Trade

Diana Thorburn, John Rapley, Damien King and Collette Campbell

Caribbean Paper No. 10September 2010

An electronic version of this publication is available for download at:www.cigionline.org


Outputs of CIGI’s Caribbean Economic Governance Project, the Caribbean Papers present and discuss policy issues relevant to the Caribbean region’s economic future.

The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): Towards a New Era for Caribbean TradeJohn Rapley, Diana Thorburn, Damien King and Collette Campbell Caribbean Paper #10

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neW faciliTy To oPen in 2011

The CIGI Campus, located in Waterloo, Ontario, is a $50-million construction project. It will create a hub of Canadian-based study and research in international affairs.

The campus will be home to institutions that are partnerships between The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and other institutions. An incubator of ideas will result from the physical proximity of a global think tank and related schools and research centres.

The campus includes the Balsillie School of International Affairs, established in 2007. The school is a partnership among the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and CIGI. Other elements may include a proposed masters program in international law and other academic and research institutions.

This project received federal and provincial funding totaling $50 million through the Knowledge Infrastructure Program and Ontario’s 2009 budget.

The land for the CIGI Campus was generously donated to CIGI under a 99-year lease — a contribution valued at $5 million.

CIGI CAmPus


The Balsillie School of International Affairs is a collaborative partnership among CIGI, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, and represents the largest initiative in the social sciences in Canadian history. With over 30 affiliated faculty, including the CIGI Chairs, the Balsillie School has

assembled several experts in a variety of disciplines that contribute to the analysis of the challenges of governance in an increasingly complex global environment. Emphasizing small class size and individual contact with faculty, the programs admit eight doctoral students and 30 master’s-level students each year.

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Dr. Andrew Thompson Program Officer, Global Governance Programs (MA and PhD) University of Waterloo 519-888-4567, ext. 38689 [email protected]

Ms. April Wettig Graduate Program Assistant, Global Governance Programs University of Waterloo 519-888-4567, ext. 32415 [email protected]

Ms. Kelly Brown Senior Administrative Assistant, Master’s in International Public Policy and PhD in Global Governance Wilfrid Laurier University 519-884-0710, ext. 2783 [email protected]

Phd in gloBal governance

The PhD in Global Governance (offered jointly by Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo) is a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary examination of power and authority in the global arena. Graduate students in the program examine the variety of actors, institutions, ideas, rules, and processes that contribute to the management of global society. In addition to international organizations and inter-state relations, the study of global governance examines the various non-state actors as well as the realities of contemporary life that contribute to the establishment and functioning of global rules, norms and institutions. The Global Governance PhD program interrogates the concepts, tools, and assumptions that have served scholars in the past and assesses new approaches for addressing contemporary and future challenges.

Ma in gloBal governance

The MA in Global Governance (offered by the University of Waterloo) goes beyond the rigidities and formalities of established academic boundaries by drawing on a variety of disciplines, including economics, politics, history, and environmental studies. Designed to be completed in sixteen months, the program typically consists of two terms of course work; a third term as an intern working on global governance issues in the public or private sector, a research institute or NGO; followed by a fourth term in which student complete a Major Research Paper (MRP) on a specific research topic of their choosing relating to the study of global governance.

MasTer’s in inTernaTional PuBlic Policy

An intensive, one year, interdisciplinary master’s program, the Master’s in International Public Policy (MIPP, offered by Wilfrid Laurier University) provides graduate training for individuals looking to pursue or enhance careers in international or global policy development, implementation and evaluation. MIPP students complete three terms of course work, each of which builds a specific skill set; skills in public sector economics, policy analysis and research tools.


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oPeraTing Board of direcTors

Jim Balsillie — Chair of the Board

Cosimo Fiorenza — Secretary

Dennis Kavelman — Treasurer

Scott Burk

Maureen O’Neil

Andrés Rozental

Carmen Sylvain

inTernaTional Board of governors

Jorge Braga de Macedo is President, Tropical Research Institute; professor at the Faculty of Economics of Nova University, Lisbon; former Finance Minister (Portugal).

Ahmed Galal is Managing Director, Economic Research Forum (Egypt).

Maureen O’Neil is President and CEO, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation.

Rohinton Medhora is Vice President, Program and Partnership Branch, International Development Research Centre.

Andrés Rozental was a career diplomat for Mexico for more than 35 years.

Diana Tussie is Director of the Research Program on International Economic Institutions, FLACSO, Argentina, and founding director of the Latin American Trade Network (Argentina).

Ngaire Woods is Director, Global Economic Governance Programme; Fellow in Politics and International Relations, University College, University of Oxford (UK).

cigi execuTives

Thomas A. Bernes, Executive Director

David Dewitt, Vice President of Programs (Effective July 1, 2011)

Mohamed Hamoodi, Vice President of Government Affairs

J. Fred Kuntz, Vice President of Public Affairs

Neve Peric, Vice President of Operations

Max Brem, Senior Director for Publications

Mark Menard, Senior Director of Finance

exPerTs

Manmohan AgarwalSenior Visiting Fellow

•South Asian studies

•International trade

•India - economic development

Jason J. BlackstockSenior Fellow for Energy and the Environment

•Climate science and policy

•Nuclear energy and non-proliferation

•Geo-engineering

Paul BlusteinSenior Visiting Fellow

•International economic institutions

•Global financial crisis

•International trade

Colin BradfordSenior Fellow

•Millenium Development Goals

•The global economy, globalization and global governance

•Latin America, East Asia, Europe

Barry CarinSenior Fellow

•Governance of international organizations

•Millenium Development Goals

Gregory ChinSenior Fellow and Acting Director of the Global Development Program

•China’s global economic expansion

•Emerging powers and global governance reform

•Asian regionalism

Jennifer ClappCIGI Chair

•International food trade

•International agricultural trade and the WTO

•International waste management issues

Stephen ClarksonSenior Fellow

•Canadian political economy

•North American governance

•Canadian federal politics

William D. ColemanCIGI Chair in Globalization and Public Policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs

•Globalization studies

•Global public policy

•Agriculture and food regulation

Andrew F. CooperDistinguished Fellow

•Global governance reform

•Celebrity diplomacy

•Canadian/comparative foreign policy

Trevor FindlaySenior Fellow

•Nuclear energy

•Disarmament, arms control and nonproliferation

•Weapons of mass destruction

Louise FréchetteDistinguished Fellow

•Nuclear energy proliferation

•United Nations and reform

•Conflict prevention, peacekeeping and peacebuilding

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Paul FrestonCIGI Chair of Religion and Politics in Global Context at the Balsillie School of International Affairs

•Religion and global politics

•Religion and globalization

Paul HeinbeckerDistinguished Fellow

•Canadian foreign policy, including the UN, G20, international security, arms control and disarmament

•U.S. foreign policy

Jorge HeineDistinguished Fellow and CIGI Chair

•Multilateralism

•Latin American politics (Chile, Cuba, Haiti)

•Theory and practice of diplomacy

Eric HelleinerCIGI Chair in International Political Economy

•North-South financial relations

•Shifting international monetary power

•International financial regulation

Keith W. HipelSenior Fellow

•Systems thinking in conflict resolution

•Sustainable development

•Fair resources allocation

Kathryn HochstetlerCIGI Chair of Governance in the Americas in the Balsillie School of International Affairs

•Environmental politics in Brazil and Latin America

•Social movements and protest in Latin America

•Failed presidents

Thomas Homer-DixonCIGI Chair Environment and Energy

•Social adaptation to complex change

•Climate change, energy scarcity, global security

•Causes of ethno-nationalist conflict

Sue HortonCIGI Chair in Global Health Economics

•Economics of public health, nutrition

•Development economics

Paul JenkinsDistinguished Fellow

•International economic institutions

•International economic policy coordination

Maurice KuglerCIGI Chair in International Public Policy Development

•Globalization and economic development

•International trade and finance

•Foreign direct investment

Bessma MomaniSenior Fellow

•International financial institutions

•Foreign policy to the Middle East

•Middle Eastern economics

David RunnallsDistinguished Fellow and Acting Director of the Environment and Energy Program

•Environment

•Climate change

•Sustainability

Susan M. SchadlerSenior Visiting Fellow

•Sovereign debt crisis

•Global financial institutions

•European emerging market economies

Daniel SchwanenSenior Fellow

•Economic growth and innovation

•Canada’s external trade policy

•North American regional integration

Mark SedraSenior Fellow

•State failure and state building

•Afghanistan

•International security

Nelson SewankamboDirector, Africa Initiative

•Climate change and health in Africa

•African health capacity, HIV/AIDS

Pierre SiklosSenior Fellow

•Monetary economics

•Asian economies

•International finance

Gordon SmithDistinguished Fellow

•G20, G8 summit reform, global governance

•Canadian foreign and defence policy

Debra StegerSenior Fellow

•International trade law and policy

•International investment policy

David WelchInterim Director and CIGI Chair of Global Security at the Balsillie School of International Affairs

•International security

•Peace and conflict studies

John WhalleyDistinguished Fellow

•Globalization

•World Trade Organization (WTO)

•International economic relations

Simon ZadekSenior Visiting Fellow

•Corporate accountability and sustainability

•Green growth

•Collaborative governance

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