Michael Manulak
Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor
International organizations, multilateral diplomacy, Canadian foreign policy, global environmental politics, and Non-Proliferation.
Michael W. Manulak is Assistant Professor of International Affairs, anchoring NPSIA’s Diplomacy and Foreign Policy cluster. 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 (St. Antony’s College).
His research focuses on international organizations, multilateral diplomacy, Canadian foreign policy, global environmental politics, and Non-Proliferation. He is author of Change in Global Environmental Politics: Temporal Focal Points and the Reform of International Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2022), winner of the International Studies Association’s Chadwick F. Alger prize in 2022 for the best book on international organizations and multilateralism.
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.
In 2023, he co-chaired (with Kerry Buck) a panel of eight former Canadian ambassadors on Canada’s future role within the United Nations. The panel’s report, Canada and the United Nations: Rethinking and Rebuilding Canada’s Global Role, made eight recommendations for enhancing Canadian engagement within the world organization.
From 2001-2007, he served as Executive Director of a youth international environmental non-governmental organization, implementing a tiger conservation and international development project in Orissa, India.
He is a Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, and at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.