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Elizabeth Friesen is an Adjunct Research Professor and contract instructor with Carleton University\u2019s Department of Political Science. Originally, she studied architecture at Carleton and the Architecture Association in London, England, and worked as an architect in both private and public sectors. This experience led Friesen to ask a number of questions about what part taste, design, function, and, of course, finance play in shaping our built environment and how our environment shapes our societies.<\/p>\n

These questions eventually led her to the study of political science and international political economy where she was able to start to explore these tensions applying existing theoretical structures. Her Honours Essay was \u201cThe Limitations of the Free Market Model in Coping with Structural Change in the Global Political Economy\u201d, her MA Thesis was \u201cThe Polanyian Double Movement and the Context of International Finance: an Examination of Emerging Counter Movements\u201d and her dissertation was \u201cThe International Financial Architecture, Transnational Networks and the Transformational Potential of Ideas\u201d.  Her current research interests include the power and influence of norms and values, innovative transnational politics, world politics, democracy, international political economy, and global finance.<\/p>\n

Friesen has conducted extensive, original, research on the transnational civil society based campaign for the cancellation of third world debt and also on the World Economic Forum as a transnational political actor. She is the author of Challenging Global Finance: Civil Society and Transnational Networks<\/em> (2012) and The World Economic Forum and Transnational Networking <\/em>(2020).<\/p>\n

At Carleton she teaches courses on world politics, democracy, and international organization.<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Friesen, Elizabeth. (2021) \u201cWorld Order and Transnational Actors: The Case of the World Economic Forum, ” in Pandemic The Catastrophic Crisis,<\/em> Modesto Seara Vazquez Coordinator, Universidad del Mar: Huatulco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friesen, Elizabeth. (2020) The World Economic Forum and Transnational Networking<\/em><\/a>. Bingley, England: Emerald Publishing.<\/p>\n

Friesen, Elizabeth. (2017) \u201cInternational Financial Governance and \u201cGlobal\u201d Finance: Will Canada Matter in 25 Years?\u201d in International Journal of Canadian Studies<\/em>, 55, 55-66.<\/p>\n

Friesen, Elizabeth. (2015) \u201cThe Jubilee Movement: Success or Failure?\u201d paper presented at the Canadian Political Science Association Meeting<\/em>, University of Ottawa, June 2-4, 2015.<\/p>\n

Cobbett, Elizabeth and Elizabeth Friesen. (2014) \u201cMotsepe\u2019s Gift: or How Philanthropy serves Capitalism in South Africa,\u201d in Selected Themes in African Political Studies<\/em>, Lucky Asuelime and Suzanne Francis eds., Switzerland: Springer.<\/p>\n

Friesen, Elizabeth. (2014) \u201cThe Power of Place: Transnational Politics and the \u2018Spirit of Davos\u2019\u201d paper presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association<\/em>, Toronto, March 26-29, 2014.<\/p>\n

Friesen, Elizabeth. (2012) Challenging Global Finance: Civil Society and Transnational Networks<\/em><\/a>.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Part of the International Political Economy Series.<\/p>\n

Friesen, Elizabeth. (2009) \u201cPost-Neoliberalism and the Emergence of Human Rights Politics in International Finance,\u201d in Post Neoliberalism in the Americas<\/em>, Laura Macdonald and Arne Ruckert eds., New York: Palgrave Macmillan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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