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September 2024
The Research Chair welcomes 28 participants for the the workshop "Power Dynamics and International Institutions", coming from Glasgow, Barcelona, Penn State, Tufts, Freiburg, Oxford, Munich, Zeijang, Geneva, Miami, Oslo, Temple, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Washington, Florence, Harvard, Chicago, etc.

June 2024
The chair hosted the 2024 edition of the Environmental Politics & Governance (EPG) conference

May 2024
The International Environmental Agreements Database (IEADB) project is now hosted at Université Laval and co-directed by Jean-Frédéric Morin

March 2024
We are excited to launch the Space Actors and Governance Explorer (SAGE); a website where you can get info on space agencies, space companies, and the agreements that unite them. Check it out at https://institutions.space

February 2024
The Chair will host the 2024 edition of the Environmental Politics & Governance conference in June, thanks to the generous support of Université Laval, Gouvernement du Québec and the SSHRC

December 2023
Jean-Frédéric Morin receives the 2023 UL award for excellence in mentoring graduate students.

July 2023
Call for Proposals. 10th edition of the Environmental Politics & Governance Conference. Quebec City, June 18-21, 2024. Submit your proposal before Oct 16. www.epg2024.com

June 2023
Members of the Chair have published several articles this spring, in journals such as Environmental Politics, International Theory, Review of International Organizations and International Studies Quarterly,

May 2023
We are expanding. Come visit.

March 2023
Research is a social process. Meet our team members!

December 2022
A new version of the TRade & ENvironment Database (TREND) is now available. The 2022 update covers all the environmental provisions of 775 trade agreements concluded between 1947 and 2021 (see the "Data" page)

October 2022
Prof. Morin, Dr. Tepper, Dr Beaumier and other members of the research chair participate to the "Commons in Space" conference and discuss Earth-Space sustainability.

October 2022
Several PhD students from the research chair participate to the annual conference of the Earth System Governance Project in Toronto, including Laurie Durel, Phillippe Evoy, Laure Gosselin, Mathilde Gauquelin, in addiiton to alumni Marielle Papin and Noémie Laurens

September 2022
Jean-Frédéric Morin is elected member of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

June 2022
Congratulations to Philippe Evoy and Stephanie Uhde for your FRQSC PhD fellowship and to Noémie Laurens and Upasana Dasgupta for their FRQSC postdoctoral fellowship. Your research projects are exciting and we are looking forward to working with you at the research chair.

June 2022
Prof. JF Morin is named Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation. He will provide mentorship to the scholars of the 2022-2025 cohort.

May 2022
Call for applications. GEM-DIAMOND is a consortium of 17 research institutions funded by the Europena Commission. We are hiring 16 PhD students. Amazing work conditions. https://gem-diamond.eu/positions

May 2022
Workshop on the design of environmental clubs brings experts from 19 universities in Québec City

April 2022
The 2022 IPCC report cites multiple studies conducted my prof Morin and his team on the interplay between climate and trade governance.

December 2021
Congratulations to Véronique Fournier for her CRDP doctoral scholarship!

November 2021
Congratulations to Laure Gosselin for her FRQSC fellowship! Her PhD thesis will explore interactions between the global climate regime and the global food and agricultural regime.

October 2021
Congratulations to Véronique Fournier for her Action Canada fellowship !

October 2021
JF Morin, E. Tepper and Scott Shackelford (from the Ostrom Workshop, at Indiana University Bloomington) have received a US$ 200,000 grant from the Carnegie Corp. of New York to expand their study of governance in space.

September 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Tepper for his 2-year Mitacs postdoctoral fellowship at the research chair, in partnerships with CIGI!

September 2021
Congratulations to Guillaume Beaumier and Krystel Wanneau for having successfully defended their PhD thesis.

February 2021
Call for applications. Contribute to an international research project on environmental politics and get the opportunity to earn a PhD degree at the same time.

February 2021
This video, presented at the Commons in Space conference, provides an introduction to a new dataset on space actors and their institutional arrangements.

January 2021
New essential resource for students: Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An A-Z of Key Concepts, edited by Morin, Olsson & Atikcan and published by Oxford University Press.

January 2021
Dr. Tepper obtains a grant from SSHRC to organize an international workshop on the governance of space exploration corporations.

December 2020
JF Morin gets a research grant of $1,7M with co-PIs Ozlem Atikcan (Warwick) and Anna Holzcheiter (Dresden) to work on frame emergence and diffusion, together with P. Leifeld, K. Öge, and Y. Dufesne.

December 2020
Jean-Frédéric Morin receives the FSS excellence award for graduate student supervision.

October 2020
J. Mathieu, G. Beaumier, M. Papin, R. Ouellet and É. Duchesne received a research grant for a project on AI and global economic governance.

October 2020
Since the creation of the Chair in 2014, 100% of graduate students who applied for a research excellence fellowship at SSHRC or FRQSC were successful on their first attempt. This is an impressive rate! Congratulations to all of them!

September 2020
Call for papers :The Governance of Space Exploration Corporations. Workshop, Québec City, 23-24 August 2021. More information here.

September 2020
Congratulations to Dr Marielle Papin for having successfully defended her PhD thesis.

August 2020
The 2nd edition of "Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance" is out, with several new chapters and an impressive line-up of contributors. You can order your copy here.

July 2020
The Chair obtained a SSHRC Connection grant to organize a workshop on the design of environemntal clubs with Claire Peacock and Eric Werker from Simon Fraser University

July 2020
The Canada Research Chair in International Political Economy was renewed for another 5 years. We will keep researching international institutions design, evolution and interactions.

April 2020
Congradulations to Marielle Papin, Véronique Fournier, and Laurie Durel for their SSHRC and FRQSC fellowships and scholarships ! Very well deserved! Once again, the Chair in IPE has a 100% success rate!

April 2020
JF Morin receives an SSHRC Insight Research Grant to study space debris. The project is called " Astro-Environmentalism: The Polycentric Governance of the Earth's Orbital Space"

March 2020
Morin, Orsini & Jinnah publish Global Environmental Politics at Oxford University Press. According to Robert O. Keohane (Princeton University): "Global Environmental Politics is a remarkably sophisticated as well as comprehensive analysis of environmental practices, institutions, and policies"

February 2020
Greening through Trade: How American Trade Policy Is Linked to Environmental Protection Abroad. A new book by Sikina Jinnah and Jean-Frédéric Morin, published by MIT Press.

November 2019
Véronique Fournier, Noémie Laurens, Marielle Papin and Jean-Frédéric Morin are in Oaxaca (Mexico) to present their work at the Earth System Governance Conference.

August 2019
The workshop The Design of Environmental Agreements (Charlevoix, August 26-27) brought together scholars from the rational design tradition and from global environmental governance.

August 2019
The version 2.0 of the Trade & Environment Database (TREND) is now available. It covers nearly 300 different types of environmental provisions in 730 trade agreements from 1947 to 2018.

April 2019
Congratulations to Véronique Fournier for her SSHRC scholarship, Noémie Laurens for her FRQSC scholarship, and to Claire Peacock for her SSHRC postdoc fellowship !

March 2019
Seven researchers from the Chair participated to ISA-2019 in Toronto

March 2019
Call for Papers: workshop on the design of environmental agreements, Québec, August 26-27 2019. More information at www.wire-series.com

February 2019
Call for applications - Postdoctoral fellow position on the design of environmental agreements.

September 2018
JF Morin publishes a new article in the Review of International Organizations on the rise and fall of technical assistance providers in the field of intellectual property.

September 2018
The SSHRC awards Claire Peacock and Jean-Frédéric Morin a new research grant to study how countries withdraw from international environmental agreements.

August 2018
Jean-Frédéric Morin receives a Fulbright fellowship and a Spoul fellowship to conduct resarch at University of California Berkeley in 2018-2019.

May 2018
Congratulations to the new generation of research assistants of the Canada Research Chair in IPE who have just obtained research scholarships, including Mathilde Gauquelin (SSHRC), Benjamin Tremblay-Auger (SSHRC) and Marielle Papin (FRQSC)!

April 2018
Call for applications. 1 year post-doctoral fellowship on institutional proliferation. CV and letter of application must be sent at postdoc@hei.ulaval.ca by June 1st, 2018. See www.hei.ulaval.ca/appel-a-candidature-offre-de-stage-postdoctoral

January 2018
The TRade and ENvironmental Dataset (TREND) is now available! Visit www.trend.ulaval.ca.

November 2017
The Canada Research Chair in IPE organizes a training on reseach methods for 20 PhD candidates in the context of the GEM-STONES consortium. In the picture above, J. Checkel teaches process tracing.

October 2017
Jean-Frédéric Morin introduces the TREND dataset and the online TRENDanalytics.info tool to delegates at the WTO (Geneva), EESC (Brussels) and OECD (Paris).

October 2017
The Canada Research Chair in IPE co-organizes a workshop on trade & environment in partnership with the German Developmend Institute (DIE).

July 2017
The German Development Institute (DIE) and the Canada Chair in International Political Economy announce the launch of TREND-Analytics, a new online interactive tool to analyse environmental provisions in trade agreements. See www.TRENDanalytics.info

April 2017
Call for Papers: Trade and the Environment – New Potentials, New Pitfalls? Bonn, 29-30 September 2017 Please submit your abstract (max. 400 words) to christa.ottersbach@die-gdi.de no later than May23, 2017. We expect full draft papers to be circulated among participants three weeks prior to the workshop.

April 2017
The CEPCI organizes a workshop on Darwinian evolutionary theories applied to trade agreements.

October 2016
The Chair organized a workshop in Québec City on Sept 30 and Oct 1 on the evolution of international institutions. Applying ecological metaphors, we highlighted the multifaceted feedback effects among populations of international institutions and the ways in which these shape their evolution.

July 2016
CALL FOR APPLICATION: 15 PhD fellowships on institutional proliferation and regime complexity, including ERS5 cosupervised by Matthew Watson (University of Warwick) and Jean-Frédéric Morin (UL). More information at http://gem-stones.eu/

May 2016
The Canada Reseach Chair in IPE has relocated to its new premises! We call our new office the "Institutional Complexity Lab"

March 2016
First presentations on our trade and environment project. M. Rochette presents at Aix-en-Provence, N. Michaud and C. Bialais at the EDS Conference, and JF Morin presents at ISA in Atlanta and CES in Philadelphia.

March 2016
Jean-Frédéric Morin obtains $ 240'000 from the Canadia Foundation for Innovation, the Quebec Governement, and the Centre for International Governance Innovation to build a new database exploring overlaps between trade, environment and investement regimes.

November 2015
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Evolution of Institutional Complexes: A Biological Turn in the Study of International Institutions? Quebec City, September 30th- October 1st, 2016

April 2015
NEW BOOK: The Politics of Transatlantic Trade Negotiations: TTIP in a Globalized World, ed. by J-F Morin, T. Novotná, F. Ponjaert, and M. Telò, Reviews and table of content available HERE

April 2015
New SSHRC research grant: JF Morin and his team will explore how new environmental provisions emerged from trade negotiations and how some of these normative innovation are diffused to other trade agreements.

March 2015
CALLS FOR PAPERS for two workshop on science, expertise and international relations
"Boundary Organizations in International Affairs", Brussels, August 26-27
"Don't Worry! We Have it under Control", Brussels, August 28-29,

December 2014
The Chair joins a new research network on “Fragmentation and Complexity in Global Governance”, led by Ghent University and funded by the Research Foundation Flanders, 2015-2019

December 2014
Jean-Frédéric Morin and Richard Gold publish an article on the global diffusion of IPR in International Studies Quarterly (vol. 58, issue 4: 781-792)

October 2014
Jean-Frédéric Morin and Amandine Orsini publish the textbook Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance.

October 2014
Reasearch conducted by Jean-Frédéric Morin shows the influence of US scholars on the global governance of intellectual property

October 2014
Recent research lead by Jean-Frédéric Morin and Amandine Orsini shows how international institutions evolve in a complex environment

October 2014
Jean-Frédéric Morin is invited to University of Warwick to present his ongoing research on global biodiversity governance (in collaboration with Sélim Louafi, Amandine Orsini and Mohamed Oubenal)

September 2014
Jean-Frédéric Morin is invited by ICTSD to Geneva for a conference on the World Intellectual Property Organization Photo : WIPO