Michael W Manulak
Biographic Data
| ID | 2491943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael W Manulak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael W |
| FAMILY NAME | Manulak |
| SIGNATURE | MANULAK M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8159-2890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The sources of influence in multilateral diplomacy
Canada and the United Nations
In response to the 2023 report, “Canada and the United Nations: Rethinking and Rebuilding Canada's Global Role,” Jack Cunningham argues that Canada should instead marginalize the United Nations. In response, this rejoinder maintains that, while the UN has weaknesses, the world would be a worse place without it. Look to the UN's work to close the hole in the ozone layer, deliver life-saving vaccines to millions, or give food and shelter to the dis…
Canada and the United Nations
The global order built after the Second World War is fraying and the United Nations is facing unprecedented challenges. The Advisory Panel on Canada and the United Nations, comprising multiple former Canadian UN ambassadors, therefore asked whether the UN should remain a central focus for Canadian foreign policy. The Panel concluded in its 2023 report “Canada and the United Nations: Rethinking and Rebuilding Canada's Global Role” that a well-func…
Change in Global Environmental Politics
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 u…
Toward a Super-COP? Timing, Temporality, and Rethinking World Climate Governance
The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Glasgow in November 2021, resulted in significant intergovernmental agreements, including the Glasgow Climate Pact, the completion of the Paris rulebook, and several informal deals. While Glasgow saw progress, it fell short of many observers’ expectations (see, e.g., Nature2021; Climate Action Tracker 2021). Pointing not to what…
Global Governance in a World of Change
Global governance has come under increasing pressure since the end of the Cold War. In some issue areas, these pressures have led to significant changes in the architecture of governance institutions. In others, institutions have resisted pressures for change. This volume explores what accounts for this divergence in architecture by identifying three modes of governance: hierarchies, networks, and markets. The authors apply these ideal types to d…
The Supply of Informal International Governance
Informal modes of cooperation such as transgovernmental networks (TGNs) and informal international governmental organizations (IIGOs) have been proliferating rapidly at the international level. Most efforts to explain the rise of these arrangements as complements to or substitutes for formal international governmental organizations (FIGOs) have focused on the demand side of when states prefer to create and use informal over formal institutions. H…
The Networked Diplomacy of Informal International Institutions
The rise of informal international institutions has been one of the most significant developments in institutional design and choice since the 1990s. While states have increasingly opted for informal governance, little is known about the character of intergovernmental relations in these settings. Scholars, for instance, debate whether great powers dominate such institutions, or whether influence can be exercised by a wider array of players. Drawi…
Why and How to Succeed at Network Diplomacy
Much has been made in recent years about the rise of network diplomacy. Analysts such as Anne-Marie Slaughter and Joshua Cooper Ramo have discussed the influence of new communications technologies
Multilateral solutions to bilateral problems
Based on archival sources, this article analyzes the Canadian contribution to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. It finds that continental imperatives were of pivotal importance in the development of Canadian foreign environmental policy at the Stockholm conference and its preparatory meetings. In the context of the passage of Canada’s Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, Canadian diplomats set out to use the 1972 conferen…
Forceful Persuasion or Half-Hearted Diplomacy
In the first two years of his administration, US President Barack Obama has sought more cooperative relations with Iran and North Korea as a means of halting nuclear proliferation. While the US has backed these efforts with coercive measures such as targeted sanctions, critics contend that these efforts at coercive diplomacy have been weak and ineffective. This debate raises important questions about the conditions and strategies that favour coer…
Canada and the Kosovo Crisis
Assessments of Canada's involvement in the Kosovo War of 1998-99 have generally depicted Canada's role in the crisis within the period's broader discourse of diplomatic and military decline. Much of the Canadian academic and media opinion at the time depicted the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade under Lloyd Axworthy as overmatched players in the major leagues of crisis diplomacy, as historian Michael Bliss epitomizes: Instead…
Toward a Super-COP? Timing, Temporality, and Rethinking World Climate Governance
The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Glasgow in November 2021, resulted in significant intergovernmental agreements, including the Glasgow Climate Pact, the completion of the Paris rulebook, and several informal deals. While Glasgow saw progress, it fell short of many observers’ expectations (see, e.g., Nature2021; Climate Action Tracker 2021). Pointing not to what…
Multilateral solutions to bilateral problems
Based on archival sources, this article analyzes the Canadian contribution to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. It finds that continental imperatives were of pivotal importance in the development of Canadian foreign environmental policy at the Stockholm conference and its preparatory meetings. In the context of the passage of Canada’s Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, Canadian diplomats set out to use the 1972 conferen…
Forceful Persuasion or Half-Hearted Diplomacy
In the first two years of his administration, US President Barack Obama has sought more cooperative relations with Iran and North Korea as a means of halting nuclear proliferation. While the US has backed these efforts with coercive measures such as targeted sanctions, critics contend that these efforts at coercive diplomacy have been weak and ineffective. This debate raises important questions about the conditions and strategies that favour coer…
Canada and the Kosovo Crisis
Assessments of Canada's involvement in the Kosovo War of 1998-99 have generally depicted Canada's role in the crisis within the period's broader discourse of diplomatic and military decline. Much of the Canadian academic and media opinion at the time depicted the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade under Lloyd Axworthy as overmatched players in the major leagues of crisis diplomacy, as historian Michael Bliss epitomizes: Instead…
Canada and the Kosovo Crisis
Assessments of Canada's involvement in the Kosovo War of 1998-99 have generally depicted Canada's role in the crisis within the period's broader discourse of diplomatic and military decline. Much of the Canadian academic and media opinion at the time depicted the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade under Lloyd Axworthy as overmatched players in the major leagues of crisis diplomacy, as historian Michael Bliss epitomizes: Instead…
Forceful Persuasion or Half-Hearted Diplomacy
In the first two years of his administration, US President Barack Obama has sought more cooperative relations with Iran and North Korea as a means of halting nuclear proliferation. While the US has backed these efforts with coercive measures such as targeted sanctions, critics contend that these efforts at coercive diplomacy have been weak and ineffective. This debate raises important questions about the conditions and strategies that favour coer…
Multilateral solutions to bilateral problems
Based on archival sources, this article analyzes the Canadian contribution to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. It finds that continental imperatives were of pivotal importance in the development of Canadian foreign environmental policy at the Stockholm conference and its preparatory meetings. In the context of the passage of Canada’s Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, Canadian diplomats set out to use the 1972 conferen…
Why and How to Succeed at Network Diplomacy
Much has been made in recent years about the rise of network diplomacy. Analysts such as Anne-Marie Slaughter and Joshua Cooper Ramo have discussed the influence of new communications technologies
Global Governance in a World of Change
Global governance has come under increasing pressure since the end of the Cold War. In some issue areas, these pressures have led to significant changes in the architecture of governance institutions. In others, institutions have resisted pressures for change. This volume explores what accounts for this divergence in architecture by identifying three modes of governance: hierarchies, networks, and markets. The authors apply these ideal types to d…
The Supply of Informal International Governance
Informal modes of cooperation such as transgovernmental networks (TGNs) and informal international governmental organizations (IIGOs) have been proliferating rapidly at the international level. Most efforts to explain the rise of these arrangements as complements to or substitutes for formal international governmental organizations (FIGOs) have focused on the demand side of when states prefer to create and use informal over formal institutions. H…
The Networked Diplomacy of Informal International Institutions
The rise of informal international institutions has been one of the most significant developments in institutional design and choice since the 1990s. While states have increasingly opted for informal governance, little is known about the character of intergovernmental relations in these settings. Scholars, for instance, debate whether great powers dominate such institutions, or whether influence can be exercised by a wider array of players. Drawi…
Change in Global Environmental Politics
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 u…
Toward a Super-COP? Timing, Temporality, and Rethinking World Climate Governance
The 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Glasgow in November 2021, resulted in significant intergovernmental agreements, including the Glasgow Climate Pact, the completion of the Paris rulebook, and several informal deals. While Glasgow saw progress, it fell short of many observers’ expectations (see, e.g., Nature2021; Climate Action Tracker 2021). Pointing not to what…
The sources of influence in multilateral diplomacy
Canada and the United Nations
In response to the 2023 report, “Canada and the United Nations: Rethinking and Rebuilding Canada's Global Role,” Jack Cunningham argues that Canada should instead marginalize the United Nations. In response, this rejoinder maintains that, while the UN has weaknesses, the world would be a worse place without it. Look to the UN's work to close the hole in the ozone layer, deliver life-saving vaccines to millions, or give food and shelter to the dis…
Canada and the United Nations
The global order built after the Second World War is fraying and the United Nations is facing unprecedented challenges. The Advisory Panel on Canada and the United Nations, comprising multiple former Canadian UN ambassadors, therefore asked whether the UN should remain a central focus for Canadian foreign policy. The Panel concluded in its 2023 report “Canada and the United Nations: Rethinking and Rebuilding Canada's Global Role” that a well-func…
Political science (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Diplomacy (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Canadian Policy and Governance (3 works)