CIGI Distinguished Fellow

Professor, Political Science Department (UW)

Contact Information

 CIGI
57 Erb Street, West
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 6C2
519.885.2444 x. 231

Department of Political Science
Office Location: HH 305
Phone Number:  519.888.4567 x36568
E-mail:  acooper@cigionline.org

Education

PhD - University of Oxford, 1980
MA - University of Waterloo, 1973
BA (Hons) - University of Waterloo, 1972

Areas of Specialization

 Canadian and Comparative Foreign Policy
Theory and Practice of International Diplomacy
International Political Economy
Regionalism in World Politics

Short Bio

 Andrew F. Cooper is Associate Director and Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), and is Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo where he teaches in the areas of International Political Economy, Global Governance and Comparative Politics. He holds a D.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University. From January to May 2009, he served as Visiting Fulbright Chair at the Center on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California, and has previously been a visiting professor at Australian National University, Stellenbosch University and Harvard University. Dr. Cooper has led training sessions on trade issues, governance and diplomacy in Canada, South Africa and at the World Trade Organization, and in 1993-94 was scholar in residence at Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). He has attended the numerous G8 summits and each of the G20 summits and is currently leading a major research project on the global economic crisis and reform of the international financial architecture, in partnership with Chatham House. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of both the GARNET Network of Excellence and the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and has been a member of the Warwick Commission. Dr. Cooper's most recent publications focus on emerging powers, G8 reform, small states, Latin America, global health governance and the phenomenon of celebrity diplomacy.

Most recent scholarly publications

Co-editor, Which Way Latin America: Hemispheric Politics Meet Globalization (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2009).

Co-editor, Innovation in Global Health Governance: Critical Cases (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2009).

Co-editor, The Diplomacies of Small States: Between Vulnerability and Resilience (London: Palgrave, 2009).

Co-editor, Emerging Powers and Global Governance: Lessons from the Heiligendamm Process (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Studies in International Governance Series, 2008); Chinese Edition (Shanghai: Shanghai Peoples' Publishing House, 2009).

Co-editor, Global Governance and Diplomacy: Worlds Apart? (London: Palgrave, 2008).

"Overcoming Constraints of State Sovereignty: Global Health Governance in Asia" (with Michael A. Stevenson), Third World Quarterly 30, 7 (October 2009): 1379-94. 

Courses Taught