Browsing International Affairs (Balsillie School of) by Subject "global governance"
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Agency Through Adaptation: Explaining The Rockefeller and Gates Foundation’s Influence in the Governance of Global Health and Agricultural Development
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-28)The central argument that I advance in this dissertation is that the influence of the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) in the governance of global health and agricultural ... -
The Fox Building the Henhouse: Corporate influence on global health governance and the risks to the World Health Organization
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-10)Like global governance more generally, global health governance and the global health architecture are changing and, in the process, creating new kinds of openings for non-state actors (NSAs) such as non-governmental ... -
Mapping the Complexity of Mining & Peacebuilding in Guatemala
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-13)This dissertation examines the intersection between foreign owned mining operations and peacebuilding efforts in Guatemala, responding to a number of academic debates and practical issues. Two mines were comparatively ... -
Networked governance and summit diplomacy: shaping the maternal, newborn and child health agenda
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-08)Diplomatic summits serve as critical opportunities for national leaders to interact and mobilize the political will needed to address the world’s greatest challenges. Yet, summits have a checkered past with both successes ... -
Taking Complexity Seriously in International Law: A View from the Arctic
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-21)Over the past three decades, the Arctic system has undergone significant, large-scale transformational change – a shift which has profoundly altered human-environment interactions and feedbacks within the system. What was ... -
Violence, Conflict, and World Order: Rethinking War with a Complex Systems Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)This thesis employs a complex systems approach to argue that the nature of violent conflict coevolves with broader features of world order. The first chapter demonstrates that International Relations and Comparative ...