Please join the Global Institutions, Diplomacy, and Justice Cluster for a hybrid panel discussion regarding the upcoming U.S. election. The panelists will touch upon various areas, including foreign policy, the impact of withdrawing from neoliberal institutions, and how the outcome can potentially impact patterns of conflict and violence around the world.
About the Panelists
Andrew F. Cooper is the University Research Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo and Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs. He obtained a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science at the University of Waterloo and a D.Phil. in Political Studies at the University of Oxford. Cooper has written 9 single-authored books, including The Concertation Impulse in World Politics Contestation over Fundamental Institutions and the Constrictions of Institutionalist International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2024); The BRICS – A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2016) and Diplomatic Afterlives (Polity, 2014). He has published 78 articles in a wide range of top journals including International Organization, International Affairs, World Development, International Studies Review, and Global Policy Journal, with over 250 total publications. On the basis of the 2023 Research.com study of Canadian political scientists broadly defined, he ranks 6th in the number of publications and 21st on the overall list.
Alynna J. Lyon is a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of several books and articles including U.S. Politics and the United Nations (Lynne Rienner, 2016), The United Nations: 75 Years of Promoting Peace 2020 (with Kent Kille) and The United Nations in the 21 Century with Karen Mingst and Margaret Karns, (Routledge 2022). She is former Editor-in-Chief of the journal of Global Governance, and a Faculty Fellow for the Global, Racial and Social Inequality Lab.
Peter Romaniuk is an Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He currently serves as Deputy Executive Officer of the Ph.D. and M.A. Program in Political Science at the latter. He is Director of the Center on Terrorism at John Jay and a Senior Fellow at the Global Center on Cooperative Security. He is the author of Multilateral Counter-terrorism: The Global Politics of Cooperation and Contestation (Routledge, 2010). His articles have appeared in African Security, Conflict, Security and Development, Crime, Law and Social Change, The RUSI Journal, Review of International Studies, the International Studies Encyclopedia and The CPA Journal, as well as in leading volumes on the United Nations, global governance, terrorism and counter-terrorism, terrorist financing, and multilateral sanctions. He holds a B.A. (Hons) and LLB (Hons) from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, and an AM and PhD in Political Science from Brown University.
Kendall Stiles is a professor of political science at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where he teaches international organization, international law, and international ethics. He is especially interested in the evolution of global norms and institutions and how this is affected by changes in the global distribution of power. His recent work includes Making Up the Rules (Routledge 2023) and Global Institutions in a Time of Power Transition with Joel Oestreich (Edward Elgar 2023). His book Supplanting Empires will appear with Lexington in 2025, and Understanding Global Institutions is under contract with Edward Elgar.
