Dr. Eric Helleiner's Talk
In this talk, Dr. Eric Helleiner explored following puzzle: Analysts often describe Trump’s approach to foreign economic policy as a neomercantilist one, but the neomercantilist intellectual tradition is very diverse, with many distinctive strands. Which strands have Trump and his supporters themselves invoked? Which best describes the Trump approach or is it sui generis? More generally, how useful is the history of neomercantilism for interpreting Trump’s foreign economic policy? Dr. Eric Helleiner is University Research Chair and Professor in the Department of Political Science and Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo.
Dr. Shiping Tang's Talk
In this provocative talk, Dr. Shiping Tang emphasized that IPE has unwittingly ceded economic development in LDCs to the (long demised) development economics, which does not really address the pressing issues of economic development. Dr. Shiping Tang is one of Asia’s most influential and innovative social scientists. He was elected as one of the three vice-presidents (2025-26) of the International Studies Association (ISA). He is the first Chinese scholar to be elected to this position. He has published five single-authored volumes so far.
Dr. Marek Brzezinski's Talk
In this talk, Dr. Marek Brzezinski highlighted a neglected dimension of variation in the quality of wartime violence: some atrocities involve deliberate acts of overt cruelty (mutilation, extremely painful means of killing, public rape or torture) that suggest perpetrators are seeking to maximize and publicize the suffering of victims, rather than simply killing or injuring them. Dr. Marek Brzezinski is Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. His PhD (2023) is from the Université de Montréal. His work has been published in Perspectives on Politics and the Journal of Peace Research.
Dr. Carla Winston's Talk
Dr. Carla Winston from the University of Melbourne gave a talk on her upcoming book. The book is tentatively titled The Complexity of Transitional Justice: Creativity and Co-evolution. It uses a multimethod approach to examine norm emergence and evolution of the Transitional Justice (TJ) norm cluster, as well as the emergence and evolution of the TJ field of practice, from 1970-2019. Dr. Carla Winston is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at The University of Melbourne. She has previously taught at the University of Victoria (Canada) and the University of British Columbia, where she obtained her PhD.
Dr. Ilias Alami's Talk
In this talk, Dr. Ilias Alami presented his research that analyzes how developing countries combine and experiment with these three financing strategies, resulting in novel configurations of market-based and state-led approaches to financing green industrialisation. Dr. Ilias Alami is an Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of Development in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, he is the author of Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets (Routledge, 2019).
Dr. Theodore McLauchlin's Talk
In this talk, Dr. McLauchlin presented a co-authored research guided by the following questions: What determines support among service members and the American public for orders to deploy the U.S. military domestically in times of protest? And to what extent do they support acts of military dissent in response? Dr. McLauchlin is Professor of Political Science and director of the Centre d’études sur la paix et la sécurité internationale (CEPSI) at Université de Montréal. He is the author of Desertion: Trust and Mistrust in Civil Wars (Cornell University Press, 2020).
Dr. Vinicius Rodrigues Vieira's Talk
Dr. Vinicius Rodrigues Vieira from Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) gave a talk on his published book Shaping Nations and Markets: Identity Capital, Trade, and the Populist Rage (Routledge, 2024). In the book, Dr. Vieira develops a theoretical framework to make sense of the rise of nationalist-populist movements in the 21st century. Dr. Vinícius Rodrigues Vieira holds a doctorate in International Relations (Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 2015) and a M.A. in Latin American Studies (University of California, Berkeley, 2010).
