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PhD Candidate Nicole Georges Successfully Defends Her Dissertation

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The Balsillie School community extends warm congratulations to Nicole Georges, who successfully defended her dissertation, “Anchored Ashore: American Life at Guantanamo” on August 12, 2025. We extend thanks to Nicole’s supervisor, Dr. Jasmin Habib, committee members Dr. Andrew Hunt and Dr. Douglas Peers, internal/external examiner Dr. Andrew McMurry, and external examiner Dr. Jana Lipman, Tulane University.

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BSIA announces new partnership to explore the impact of disruptive technologies on national security

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The Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), along with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), is pleased to announce a new two-year partnership with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), as part of its Disruptive Technologies Program. The initiative is aimed at strengthening discourse and deepening international dialogue on disruptive technologies. “Transformative technologies have started

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PhD Candidate Isabella Sellar Voll Successfully Defends Her Dissertation

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The Balsillie School community extends warm congratulations to Isabella Sellar Voll, who successfully defended her dissertation, “Beyond the Event: Challenging the Hegemonic Account of Genocide” on June 18, 2025. We extend thanks to Isabella’s supervisor, Dr. Sara Matthews, committee members Dr. Jasmin Habib and Dr. Adam Jones, internal/external examiner Dr. Karen Stote, and external examiner

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BSIA’s Technology Governance Summer School Wins APSIA Innovation Award

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We are pleased to announce that the Technology Governance Summer School has received the 2025 APSIA Innovation Award for Professional Development Programming. This prestigious award recognizes innovative initiatives that have supported the professional development of graduate students in international affairs over the past year. The BSIA Summer School offers a unique interdisciplinary approach to the

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PhD Candidate Naireen Khan Successfully Defends Her Dissertation

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The Balsillie School community extends warm congratulations to Naireen Khan, who successfully defended her dissertation, “Palestine in Westphalian Worldmaking: The Production of the Opt as a Place Through International Humanitarian-Developmental Governance” on May 26, 2025. We extend thanks to Naireen’s supervisor, Dr. Sara Matthews, committee members Dr. Timothy Donais and Dr. Jasmin Habib, internal/external examiner

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Dispatch from UNDP Fiji: Christy Lorenz’s third blog from the field

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Photo credit: Christy Lorenz By Christy Lorenz, MIPP Working as a Programme Assistant in Resilience and Climate Change (RCC) for UNDP Pacific has been the culmination of many years of study and sacrifice, working hard to achieve good grades, to get into a good school with a good scholarship, to get better grades, to get

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Dispatch from UNDP Fiji: Christy Lorenz’s second blog from the field

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Photo credit: Christy Lorenz By Christy Lorenz, MIPP When I first received the news that I would be moving to Fiji to work as a Resilience and Climate Change (RCC) Programme Assistant for UNDP Pacific, my mind went wild with possibilities. Freshly equipped with a Master of International Public Policy degree and brimming with ideas,

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Dispatch from UNDP Fiji: Christy Lorenz’s first blog from the field

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Photo credit: Christy Lorenz By Christy Lorenz, MIPP Bula vinaka to family, friends, colleagues, and readers near and far! I’m writing to you from Suva, Fiji, where I work as a Programme Assistant with the Resilience and Climate Change (RCC) team at the United Nations Development Programme’s Pacific Office. As a recent Master of International

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PhD Dissertation Defence: “Palestine in Westphalian Worldmaking: The Production of the Opt as a Place Through International Humanitarian-Developmental Governance”

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Notice of Dissertation Defence: Naireen Khan May 26, 2025 Abstract This multiple manuscript dissertation examines the international governance of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)—a non-sovereign territory— undertaken by an assemblage of actors doing both humanitarian and development work. The study puts forward the theoretical and methodological framework of place-making to analyze the effects of the

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Canada-Germany Virtual Workshop: Sustainable Energy Transitions, Individuals, and Communities

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Top: Workshop participants at the BSIA in Waterloo, Canada. Bottom: Workshop participants at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) in Karlsruhe, Germany. By Nathalie Gatti and Ian Rowlands On 16 April 2025, academic researchers based at institutions in Canada and Germany connected for a half-day hybrid workshop. With groups of approximately 20

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PhD Candidate Johanna Wilkes Successfully Defends Her Dissertation

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The Balsillie School community extends warm congratulations to Johanna Wilkes who successfully defended her dissertation, “Fallow Fields or Fertile Ground: Analysing Food Governance in a Changing World” on March 28, 2025. We extend thanks to Johanna’s supervisor, Dr. Alison Blay-Palmer, committee members Dr. Alistair Edgar and Dr. Rianne Mahon, internal/external examiner Dr. Alex Latta, and

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