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| When: | Thursday, November 24th, 2022 |
| Time: | 5:00 pm — 6:30 pm |
| Location: | Irene's Pub Restaurant at 885 Bank St, Ottawa, ON K1S 3W4 |
| Audience: | Alumni, Carleton Community, Current Students, Professionals, Staff and Faculty |
Author Meets Readers invites Carleton students and the community to join an informal discussion on new books published by members of the Carleton University Faculty of Public Affairs.
About the Book:
As wildfires rage, pollution thickens, and species disappear, the world confronts environmental crisis with a set of global institutions in urgent need of reform. Yet, these institutions have proved frustratingly resistant to change. Introducing the concept of Temporal Focal Points, Manulak shows how change occurs in world politics. By re-envisioning the role of timing and temporality in social relations, his analysis presents a new approach to understanding transformative phases in international cooperation. We may now be entering such a phase, he argues, and global actors must be ready to realize the opportunities presented. Charting the often colorful and intensely political history of change in global environmental politics, this book sheds new light on the actors and institutions that shape humanity’s response to planetary decline. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of international relations, international organization and environmental politics and history.
About the Author:
Michael W. Manulak is Assistant Professor of International Affairs, anchoring NPSIA’s Diplomacy and Foreign Policy cluster. 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.
About the Panelists
Elizabeth May, MP, is one of Canada’s best known parliamentarians and is a life-long environmental advocate. Prior to running for elected office, she worked as a lawyer, a governmental policy advisor and was for seventeen years the Executive Director of Sierra Club of Canada (1989-2006). The ninth leader of the Green Party of Canada (2006 – 2019), she was the first Canadian Green to win election in 2011. Once she broke through the psychological barrier that Greens cannot get elected in a First Past the Post system, sixteen other Greens have been elected federally and in four provinces of Canada.
Roland Paris is a professor of international affairs and the director of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, an associate fellow of Chatham House, and a former senior advisor on foreign policy to the prime minister of Canada. His research on international security, peacebuilding, and foreign policy has appeared in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly and other leading academic publications and has earned several prizes, including the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
This event is part of the Ottawa International Writer’s Festival.
