Michael W. Manulak

Assistant Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University    

Manulak
BSIA Fellow
BSIA Fellow

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Michael W. Manulak

Assistant Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University

Michael W. Manulak is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Carleton University. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto, his M.A. from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and earned a D.Phil in International Relations from the University of Oxford.
His research focuses on international organizations, multilateral diplomacy, Canadian foreign policy, global environmental politics, and Non-Proliferation. His forthcoming book, Change in Global Environmental Politics: Temporal Focal Points and the Reform of International Institutions, will be published in 2022 with Cambridge University Press.

An alumnus of the Government of Canada’s Recruitment of Policy Leaders program, he served mainly within the Department of National Defence. In government, he represented Canada in international proliferation security negotiations, supported the national security review of foreign investments, and composed Cabinet documents within National Defence’s Cabinet Liaison bureau.

He is a Fellow at BSIA and at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He also serves on the External Advisory Board of the Canadian Foreign Service Institute, providing advice on Canada’s diplomatic training priorities.

For more information about Michael, visit his website www.michaelmanulak.com.

Select Publications

  • 2022 Change in Global Environmental Politics: Temporal Focal Points and the Reform of International Institutions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  • 2021 “The Networked Diplomacy of Informal International Institutions: The Case of the Proliferation Security Initiative,” Global Governance, Vol. 27, Iss. 3, pp. 410-432.
  • 2021 (with Duncan Snidal) “The Supply of Informal International Governance: Hierarchy plus Networks in Global Governance,” in Michael Barnett, Jon Pevehouse, and Kal Raustiala (ed.), Global Governance in a World of Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 182-213.
  • 2020 “A Bird in the Hand: Temporal Focal Points and Change in International Institutions,” Review of International Organizations, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-27.
  • 2017 “Leading by Design: Informal Influence and International Secretariats,” Review of International Organizations, Volume 12, Number 4, pp. 497-522.
  • 2015 “Multilateral Solutions for Bilateral Problems: The 1972 Stockholm Conference and Canadian Foreign Environmental Policy,” International Journal, Volume 70, Number 1, pp. 4-22.

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