Browsing International Affairs (Balsillie School of) by Title
Now showing items 1-20 of 23
-
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 ... -
Analyzing Major Royalty Debates in Alberta's Oil Sands: Corporate Power at Play in a Subnational Resource-Cursed Petrostate
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-27)Canada has the third largest proven oil reserves in the world and these are predominantly located in the province of Alberta in the form of oil sands. Despite having large oil resources and the ability to profit substantially ... -
Constructing China’s National Food Security: Power, Grain Seed Markets, and the Global Political Economy
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-19)What is China’s place in the global food system? This thesis provides an analytical lens to explain the factors behind the structure of China’s national seed industry and recent global agribusiness expansion. Scholars of ... -
Experiments in governance and citizenship in Kenya’s resource frontier
(University of Waterloo, 2016-11-29)Over the past four years, natural resource exploration and development have rapidly expanded across northern Kenya and, as a result, the region is in the midst of a frontier-making project that may have seemed unimaginable ... -
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 ... -
Governing Sovereign Bankruptcy: Writing International Rules for Rewriting National Debts
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-09)This thesis examines three sets of recent initiatives aimed at reforming the international regime for sovereign debt restructuring. The first involved changes to the rules governing IMF lending and their role in triggering ... -
Just and Unjust Sanctions: The Case Study of Iran
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-28)This dissertation aims to accomplish two major goals: 1. To provide a theoretical framework for studying and evaluating justice in sanctions by modifying and expanding the Just War Tradition (JWT); 2. To apply this ... -
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 ... -
Mindmade Politics - The Role of Cognition in Global Climate Change Governance
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-20)This dissertation explores the role of cognition—the elements, structures and processes of individual and collective thought—in finding effective, cooperative solutions to climate change. It makes three contributions—theoretical, ... -
Modeling climate change impacts at the science-policy boundary
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-20)Climate change is a daunting policy challenge, where decision-makers must respond to a high-uncertainty and high-risk problem in an environment with a diverse multitude of stakeholders and unresolved ethical questions. For ... -
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 ... -
Planet Finance: The Governance of Climate Change Risks in Financial Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-29)This thesis asked two research questions: 1) how are the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and ClimateWise designed to achieve their objectives and 2) what explains the emergence of these unique initiatives? In ... -
Public Salience and International Financial Regulation. Explaining the International Regulation of OTC Derivatives, Rating Agencies, and Hedge Funds
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-21)What explains the shift towards greater direct public oversight of financial markets in international financial regulation that has characterized the response to the global financial crisis of 2007-2010? Over this period, ... -
Rentier 2.0: Entrepreneurship Promotion and the (Re)Imagination of Political Economy in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)This dissertation provides an examination of the recent phenomenon of entrepreneurship and innovation promotion in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Through the use of the structured, focused comparison method, ... -
Response to International Human Rights Norms in Asia: Challenges of Ethnic Movements in Nepal and China
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-29)This thesis examines the factors that prevent the Chinese and Nepalese governments from recognizing ethnic minorities’ claims to self-determination within their national jurisdictions. The Tibetans in China and the Madheshis ... -
Scripting Resistance: Governance through Theatre of the Oppressed
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)Theatre of the oppressed (TO) emerged out of a rights-repressive context to challenge the way cultural institutions are created and reproduced, and to enact alternative social and political relationships. More than a form ... -
Seats of corporate convenience and international investment law
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-19)Seats of corporate convenience (SCCs) include tax havens, offshore finance centres and other locations frequently used by transnational corporations to channel their investments around the world. They form some of the ... -
Storage Matters: Managing Grain, Securing Finance, and Building Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-15)This dissertation analyzes the nexus of agriculture and finance, specifically the mediating role of grain storage. How grain markets are organized and governed is foundational to food security. Hundreds of millions of ... -
Stringent, open and hybrid state treatment of foreign investment: three eras of the oil industry in Venezuela and Ecuador
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-28)This thesis explains the development of three distinctive forms of engagement between the Venezuelan and Ecuadorian states and foreign investment since the 1970s until 2014 in their oil sectors. State treatment of foreign ... -
Supporting uncertain policy decisions for global catastrophic risks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-14)The three articles in this dissertation explore the contested, multi-dimensional concept of uncertainty and how experts and decision makers collectively grapple with it at governance organizations tasked with addressing ...