CIGI Chair in Global Governance and Distinguished Fellow

Balsillie School, Department of Political Science (WLU)

Contact Information

CIGI
57 Erb Street W.
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 6C2
519.888.2444 x 237

University  Location: Room 4-147, Dr. Alvin Woods Building
Phone Number:  519.884-0710 x 3275
Email:  jheine @ wlu.ca or jheine @ cigionline.org

Education
 

PhD: Stanford University, 1987
MA: Stanford University, 1978
BPhil:  York University, England, 1974

Areas of Specialization

Diplomacy
South-South relations
Multilateralism
Democratic transitions
Transitional justice
Latin American and Caribbean politics and IR

Short Bio

Jorge Heine holds the Chair in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, is Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo, Ontario. From 2006 to 2009 he served as Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). He was previously Ambassador of Chile to India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (2003-2007). During his tenure the first presidential visit from Chile to India took place, a bilateral trade agreement was signed and Chilean exports grew tenfold, to US$ 2.2 billion.

He was previously a Consulting Professor at Stanford University (1999-2003) and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Heidelberg (2002-2003).He also served as the Minister of National Assets of Chile (1999). Prior to that he served as Ambassador of Chile to South Africa (1994-1999), cross-accredited to Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. He was the first Ambassador to present credentials to President Nelson Mandela and collaborated with him and with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. During his tenure, South African mining company Anglo American launched the US$ 1.7 billion mining project Doña Inés de Collahuasi in Northern Chile, at the time Chile's largest FDI project ever. In 1997 and 1998 he was listed among the 100 most influential personalities in South Africa by Johannesburg's leading newspaper, The Star.

He was previously Deputy Minister of Defence, Chilean Air Force (1993-1994), as well as Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute of International Studies, University of Chile (1990-1994). He has taught at the War Academy of the Chilean Army as well as at Chile's Diplomatic Academy, and has lectured repeatedly at India's National Defence College in New Delhi and at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute in Washington D.C Other positions include: Associate Director of the EU-funded Institute for European-Latin American Relations (IRELA) in Madrid (1989); Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez (1986-1991); Director of the Caribbean Institute and Study Centre for Latin America (CISCLA) at Inter American University of Puerto Rico (1982-1986); and Deputy Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC (1980-1982).

Dr Heine has given lectures at universities throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia, has been a Visiting Fellow at St.Antony's College, Oxford (1984) and has held post-doctoral fellowships from the U.S. Social Science Research Council and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has been a consultant to the United Nations, the Ford Foundation and Oxford Analytica and as well as an election observer for the Organization of American States (OAS) in Haiti. An Honorary Research Fellow of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Chilean Council on Foreign Relations and is currently on the Editorial Boards of Global Governance, World Affairs, the South African Journal of International Affairs and Estudios Internacionales. He is a past president of the Caribbean Studies Association (1990- 1991) and of the Chilean Political Science Association (1991-1993, 2002-2003).

His opinion pieces have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune and The Globe&Mail and he is the author of some seventy book chapters in symposium volumes and articles in journals like The International Political Science Review, PS: Political Science and Politics, Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, The Wilson Quarterly and India Quarterly.

Jorge Heine was born in Santiago, Chile in 1948. After attending Santiago's German School, he graduated from the University of Chile Law School in 1972 and did graduate studies in Political Science at York University in England, where he received a B.Phil. in Modern Political Analysis, and at Stanford University in California, where he received an M.A. and a PhD. He is married to economist Norma Acevedo, by whom he has two children: Amory, a tax lawyer and Gunther, a law student. Interests include jogging, cycling and listening to opera and classical music.

Most recent scholary publications

Which Way Latin America? Hemispheric Politics Meets Globalization (2009), co-edited with Andrew F. Cooper. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.

"The Conflict in the Caucasus: Causing a New Cold War?", India Quarterly 65:1 (2009), pp. 55-66.

"R2P and the Zimbabwean Crisis: Rescuing a Sinking Ship", World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues 13:1 (Spring 2009),pp.146-168.

"On the Manner of Practising the New Diplomacy", in Global Governance and Diplomacy: Worlds Apart?, Andrew Cooper, Brian Hocking and Willliam Maley, eds. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 271-287.

"Empire Defanged: Non-U.S. Perspectives on U.S. Foreign Policy", International Political Science Review 28:5 (November 2007),pp. 531-544.