CIGI Chair in International Political Economy

 Balsillie School, Department of Political Science (UW)

Contact Information

Office Location: HH, Room 309
Phone Number: 519.888.4567 x33955
Email: ehellein @ uwaterloo.ca
Personal Web Site: http://politicalscience.uwaterloo.ca/profiles/prof-helleiner.htm

Education

BA in Economics and Political Science, University of Toronto
M. Sc. and PhD (1991), London School of Economics' Department of International Relations
 

Areas of Specialization

Global finance and money
International political economy
Global governance
North-South economic relations
History of political economy

Short Bio

Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Political Economy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Professor in the University of Waterloo's Department of Political Science. He received his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Department of International Relations of the London School of Economics.
His single authored books include Towards North American Monetary Union? The Politics and History of Canada's Exchange Rate Regime (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006), The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective (Cornell University Press, 2003), and States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s (Cornell University Press, 1994).
He is co-editor of Global Finance in Crisis: The Politics of International Regulatory Change (Routledge, 2009), The Future of the Dollar (Cornell University Press, 2009), Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World (Cornell University Press, 2005), and Nation-States and Money (Routledge, 1999). He has also edited/co-edited a number of special issues/sections of journals on the following topics: Crisis and the Future of Global Financial Governance (2009), The Geopolitics of Sovereign Wealth Funds (2009), The Dollar's Destiny as a World Currency, (2008), The Geopolitics of North-South (2002), The Political Economy of International Capital Mobility (1994). He has published dozens of articles and book chapters on topics relating to international political economy, and international monetary and financial issues.
He is presently co-editor (with Jonathan Kirshner) of the book series Cornell Studies in Money and is a member of the editorial advisory boards of a number of international scholarly journals. He has also served as co-editor of the journal Review of International Political Economy and associate editor of the journal Policy Sciences. He has served as a member of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform and as a Governor of the Board for the IPE Section of the International Studies Association.
He was founding director of the MA and PhD Programs in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He has been a Canada Research Chair and has won the Trudeau Foundation Fellows Prize (2007-2010) as well as the Marvin Gelber Essay Prize in International Relations (awarded by the Canadian Institute for International Affairs). His book Towards North American Monetary Union? received the 2007 Donner Prize (awarded annually by the Donner Foundation for the best book on Canadian public policy).
His current research interests include: political economy of the current global financial crisis, international financial regulation, changing power in the international monetary and financial system, the history of international development, and North-South monetary relations in the postwar period.

Most recent scholary publications

Eric Helleiner, Stefano Pagliari and Hubert Zimmermann, eds., Global Finance in Crisis: The Politics of International Regulatory Change (London: Routledge, 2009)

Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner, eds., The Future of the Dollar (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009)

Eric Helleiner, ed., Crisis and the Future of Global Financial Governance, Special Forum section of Global Governance 16(1)(Jan-March 2009): 1-28

Eric Helleiner, "Filling a Hole in Global Financial Governance? The Politics of Regulating Sovereign Bond Restructuring" in W.Mattli and N.Woods, eds., The Politics of Global Regulation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009), 89-120

Eric Helleiner "The Development Mandate of International Institutions: Where Did It Come From?" Studies in Comparative International Development 44(3)(2009)

Courses taught

PSCI 610/710 Globalization and Global Governance
PSCI 688 Governance of the Global Economy
PSCI 683, Topics in International Political Economy: Money and Finance