Bio

Claire Cutler is a Professor of International Law and Relations in the Political Science Department at the University of Victoria. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia (BA; PhD), the London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc) and McGill University (LLB).

Dr. Cutler specializes in the intersection of international law and international politics and is interested in developing critical theory in international law. Her contemporary research focuses upon institutions and processes for dispute resolution in international law. In particular, she is examining the trend toward the privatization of global governance and its implications for the future of democratic institutions and processes.

Her publications include Private Authority and International Affairs, edited with Virginia Haufler and Tony Porter (New York: State University of New York Press, 1999), Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) and International Economic Regimes and Canadian Foreign Policy edited with Mark W. Zacher, (UBC Press, 1992). She has recently become the recipient of the 2005 Weller Prize, an award that recognizes the best Political Science book by a BC author published in the preceding two years.

Member of the International Editorial Board, Review of International Political Economy (http://www.jhu.edu/~ripe/)

Member of the International Editorial Board, Globalizations (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14747731.asp)

Member of the International Advisory Board, German Law Journal (http://www.germanlawjournal.com/)

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Canadian Journal of Political Science (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CJP)

Member of the International Advisory Board of the Yearbook of International Political Economy

Dr. Cutler is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.

Publications

Articles Published in Refereed Journals

• "The Grotian tradition in international relations," Review of International Studies (U.K.) 17 (1991): 41-65.
• "Global Capitalism and Liberal Myths: Dispute Settlement in Private International Trade Relations," Millennium: Journal of International Studies 24 (1995): 377-97.
• "Artifice, Ideology, and Paradox: The Public/Private Distinction in International Trade Law," Review of International Political Economy, 4(2), 1997: 261-285.
• "Locating Authority in the Global Political Economy," International Studies Quarterly 43 (1999): 59-81.
• "Public Meets Private: The International Unification and Harmonization of Private International Law," Global Society 13(1) (1999): 25-48.
• "Critical Reflections on Westphalian Assumptions of International Law and Organization: a Crisis of Legitimacy," Review of International Studies (U.K.) 27 (2001): 133- 50.
• "Globalization, the Rule of Law, and the Modern Law Merchant: Medieval or Late Capitalist Associations?" in a Special Issue on Law and the Global Economy in Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 8 (4) (December 2001): 480-502.
• "Gramsci, Law and the Culture of Global Capitalism," in the Special Issue on Images of Gramsci: Contentions in Political Theory and International Relations, 8 (4) Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (December 2005): 527- 542.
• Refereed Encyclopedia article, Global Governance, in Robertson, Roland, and Jan Aart Scholte, eds. Encyclopedia of Globalization. New York: Routledge, 2006 (also online).

Books, Chapters, Monographs

• Co-edited with Mark W. Zacher, Canadian Foreign Policy and International Economic Regimes, Vancouver: U.B.C. Press, 1992.
• Canada and the Private International Trade Law Regime, in Cutler and Zacher, eds., Canadian Foreign Policy and International Economic Regimes.
• Joint-author, The Constitution: Getting Our Act Together, McGill Legal Information and Research Group, 1982.
• Jointly edited with Virginia Haufler and Tony Porter, Private Authority and International Affairs (New York: SUNY Press, 1999).
• Private Authority in International Trade Relations: The Case of Maritime Transport, in Cutler, Haufler, and Porter (eds.) Private Authority and International Affairs, 1999.
• With Virginia Haufler and Tony Porter, Introduction: Private Authority and International Affairs, in Cutler, Haufler, and Porter (eds.) Private Authority and International Affairs.
• With Virginia Haufler and Tony Porter, Conclusion: The Contours and Significance of Private Authority in International Affairs, in Cutler, Haufler, and Porter (eds.) Private Authority and International Affairs.
• Global Capitalism and Liberal Myths: Dispute Settlement in Private International Trade Relations, reprinted in The New Political Economy of Globalisation, edited by R. Higgott and A. Payne (Cheltenham, Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000).
• "Globalization, Law, and Transnational Corporations: A Deepening of Market Discipline," in T. Cohn, S. McBride, and D, Wiseman (eds.) Power in the Global Era: Grounding Globalization (Houndmills, Basingstoke and London: MacMillan Press and New York: St MartinÕs Press, 2000), pp. 53- 66.
• "Theorizing the 'No-Man's-Land' Between Politics and Economics," in T. Lawton, J. Rosenau, and A. Verdun (eds.) Strange Power: Shaping the parameters of international relations and international political economy (Aldershot, U.K and Burlington U.S.A: Ashgate, 2000), pp. 159- 74.
• "Critical historical materialism and international law: imagining international law as praxis," in Stephen Hobden and John Hobson (eds.) Historical Sociology of International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 181- 199.
• "Law in the Global Polity," in Morten Ougaard and Richard Higgott (eds.) Towards a Global Polity (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 58-77.
• "The Privatization of Global Governance and the Modern Law Merchant," in Adrienne HZritier (ed.) Common Goods: Reinventing European and International Governance (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 2002), pp. 127-158.
• "Historical materialism, globalisation, and law: Competing conceptions of property," in Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith (eds.) Historical Materialism and Globalization (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 230-256.
• Private international regimes and interfirm cooperation," in Rodney Bruce Hall and Thomas J. Biersteker (eds.) The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 23-42.
• Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• "L'Enterprise Productrice De Droit: Le Role De L'Avocat," in ConfZrence de Paris Du Droit de L'Economie, Syntheses, Cycle du Bicentenaire 20- 21 novembre 2003 (Ordre Des Avocats ç La Cour De Paris, 2003), 19- 24.
• "Critical Globalization Studies and International law under Conditions of Postmodernity and Late Capitalism," in William Robinson and Richard Applebaum (eds.) Critical Globalization Studies, New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. 197- 205.
• "Transnational Business Civilization, Corporations, and the Privatization of Global Governance," in International Political Economy Yearbook: Global Corporate Power , Volume 15 edited by Christopher May, Boulder, Co: Lynne Rienner Press 2006, pp. 199- 226.
• "Gramsci, the Law, and the Culture of Global Capitalism," in Images of Gramsci: Connections and Contentions in Political Theory and International Relations, edited by Andreas bieler and David Morton, London and New York: Routledge, 2006, pp. 133- 147.

Other Publications (including book reviews and reports)

• Book review of Paul Taylor and A.J.R. Groom, eds., International Institutions at Work, London: Pinter Publishers, 1988 in International Journal, Vol. XLIV, No.3 (Summer 1989), pp. 728-30.
• Book review of B.W. Muirhead, The Development of Post War Canadian Trade Policy, Montreal: McGill-Queen=s University Press, 1992, in International Journal, Vol. XLIX, No.1, (Winter 1993-94), pp. 160-1.
• Book review of Cranford Pratt, ed., Canadian International Development Assistance Policies, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen=s University Press, 1994, in Canadian Public Policy, Vol. XXI, No.3 (1995).
• Book review of Keith Krause and W. Andy Knight, eds., State, Society, and the UN System, New York: United Nations University Press, 1995, in International Journal, Vol. L, No.4 (Autumn 1995), pp. 814-16.
• Book review of Kim R. Nossal, Rain Dancing: Sanctions in Canadian and Australian Foreign Policy, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994, in The International History Review, Vol. XVIII, No.1 (February 1996), pp. 230-2.
• Book review of John Britton, ed., Canada and the Global Economy, McGill-Queen=s University Press, 1996, in International Journal, Spring 1997.

Papers, Lectures and Addresses (List date, title, and occasion)

• Presented The Regulation of International Criminal Activity: An Emerging Regime? at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), June 1994, Calgary.
• Discussant of papers by Bob Wolfe, Claire Turenne Sjolanger and Rosalind Irwin on Globalization and International Trade at the Annual Meeting of the CPSA, June 1994, Calgary. Also chaired a session on International Theory.
• Presented Conflict Resolution and Dispute Settlement in Private International Trade Relations: A Return to Medieval Internationalism, at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), February 1995, Chicago.
• Discussant and Chair of a Panel on National Trade and International Sovereignty, Annual Meeting of the ISA, February 1995, Chicago.
• Presented APrivate Power in International Relations, at a Workshop on current International Relations Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., January 27,1996.
• Discussant on a Panel with Steve Smith (Lansdowne Lecturer) and R.B.J. Walker on International Relations Theory Today, Victoria, B.C., March 16, 1996.
• Presented with Virginia Haufler and Tony Porter, Private Authority and International Regimes, the framework paper for the Workshop on Private Power, Public Power, and International Regimes, April 16, 1996, San Diego.
• Presented Public Authority/Private Agency: Paradoxes of Private International Trade Law, at the Workshop on Private Power, Public Power, and International Regimes, April 16, 1996, San Diego.
• Presented Public and Private Authority in International Relations, at a panel on Determinants of Change in the International System at the International Studies Association, April 17, 1996, San Diego.
• Presented with Virginia Haufler and Tony Porter, Private Authority and Global Governance at the Conference on Private Power, Public Power, and International Regimes, August 26 and 27, 1996.
• Presented Public and Private Authority in International Trade Relations at the Conference on Private Power, Public Power, and International Regimes, August 26 and 27, 1996.
• Presented Locating Authority in the Global Political Economy at a panel on Economic Globalization and the Constitution of Political Authority at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 29, 1996.
• Presented Harmonization and Unification as Strategies of International Cooperation at the B.C. International Relations Conference, U.B.C., January 1997.
• Presented Private Meets Public: Harmonization and Unification of the law of International Trade, at the Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, Toronto, March 1997.
• Presented Private Authority and the Global Political Economy at the Annual Meeting of the British International Studies Association, Leeds, U.K., December 1997.
• Presented Conceptualizing Transnational Corporate Legal Personality, at the British Columbia International Relations Seminar, SFU, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, January 1998.
• Presented Critical Reflections on the Westphalian Assumptions of International Law and Organization: A Crisis of Legitimacy? at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 1998.
• Presented Globalization, Corporate >Statelessness=, and International Law and Organization at a Plenary Session on Democracy, Legitimacy and Globalization at the Conference on Globalization and its Discontents, Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver, B.C., July 1998.
• Presented Interfirm Cooperation and Private International Regimes as guest of the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI at a workshop on Private Authority and Global Order, February 12 and 13, 1999.
• Presented Property, the State, and Capital: The Construction and Expansion of the Private Sphere or the Crisis of Late Capitalism at a panel on Intellectual Property: Power, Persuasion and Hegemony organized and Chaired by myself at the Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, Washington, D.C., February 16-20, 1999.
• Presented Theorizing Private International Regimes at the B.C. International Relations Seminar hosted this year at the University of Victoria, March 13, 1999.
• Presented Globalization and the Rule of Law: Reconstituting Property, Capital, and the State, at a Workshop on Historical Materialism and Globalization, Warwick/ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K., 15-17 April 1999.
• Presented Globalization, Law, and Transnational Corporations: The Deepening of Market Discipline, at the Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, 14-18 March, 2000.
• Prepared Law in the Global Polity for presentation at the Copenhagen Business School, May, 2000
• Prepared The Unification of Private International Law and the Private Provision of Public Goods, for presentation at the Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany, June 2000.
• Presented "Globalization and the Future of International Commercial Law: The Implications for Canadian Policy," to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa, May 2000.
• "Law in the Global Polity," was presented in my absence by Professor Morten Ougaard, Copenhagen Business School, at a Workshop on Understanding the Global Polity, held by the Copenhagen Business School and the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalisation, Copenhagen, May 25-27, 2000.
• Presented "Patterns of Public-Private Interaction at the International Level: Global Governance and the Modern Lex Mercatoria," at the Max Planck Institute Workshop on Common Goods: Law, Economics, and Politics, Bonn, Germany, June 30 and July 1, 2000.
• Presented "Global Governance and the Law Merchant: A Medieval or Late Capitalist Association?" at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D. C., August 31- September 3, 2000.
• Presented "Critical reflections on Westphalian assumptions of international law and organization: a crisis of legitimacy," at the Liu Center for the Study of Global Issues, University of British Columbia, October 12, 2000.
• Presented "Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law and the Global Political Economy," to the Graduate Seminar in International Relations and the Department of Politics at the University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., December 11, 2000.
• Presented "International Law as Praxis" on a panel on Problems of Contemporary Capitalism at the annual meeting of the British International Studies Association, Bradford University, Bradford, U. K., December 18, 2000.
• Presented "Theorizing International Law as Praxis," on a panel on Globalization, Inequality and the Politics of the 21st Century at the annul meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, February 21- 25, 2001.
• Plenary Address Presentation of Paper entitled "Theorizing the Ethics of Security" at the Conference on International Ethics of Security at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, April 2001.
• Paper presentation of "The English School, Critical Historical Sociology and International Law," at a Panel on the English School and International Law at the International Relations Meetings of the European Consortium on Political Research, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK, September 2001.
• Paper presentation of "The privatization of global governance" at a Panel on Private Authority and Legitimacy of Global Governance at the Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 2002.
• Paper presentation of "The English School and International Law" at a Roundtable of Eminent Scholars on The English School and the Future of IR Theory at the Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 2002.
• Discussant of five papers for a panel on States, Borders and Globalization Theory at the Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 2002.
• Paper presentation of "Linking Public Law Domains: The Juridification of Local and Global Political Economies," at a Conference on The Re-Constitution of Political Authority in the 21st Century held by the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, March 2002.
• Paper presentation of "Hedley Bull, International Law, and International Society under Conditions of Late Capitalism and Postmodernity," on a Theme Panel on Hedley Bull and International Law at the Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, Portland, February 25-March 1, 2003.
• Discussant of three papers for a panel on Norm Change, Norm Legitimacy, and the Establishment of an International Criminal Court at the International Studies Association, Portland, February 25-March 1, 2003.
• Chair for panel on Norm Change, Norm Legitimacy, and the Establishment of an International Criminal Court at the International Studies Association, Portland, February 25-March 1, 2003.
• Paper presentation of "Critical Globalization Studies and International Law," at the Critical Globalization Studies Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1-4 May, 2003.
• Paper presentation of "The Globalization of Law and the Culture of Late Capitalism," to the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security (PIPES), University of Chicago, 29 May, 2003.
• Presented paper "Gramsci, Law, and the Culture of Late Capitalism," at an Images of Gramsci Conference, University of Nottingham, UK, 24-25 October 2003.
• Delivered Paper in an Address to the Session on Producing Legal Norms: The Role of Private Law and Legal Agents entitled "The Private Sources of Law: The Role of Transnational Lawyers and Law Firms in the Creation of International Business Law" at the Paris Conference on Law and Economics Bicentenary Celebration of the French Civil Code as a guest of the Paris Bar Association and French Department of Justice, Paris, France, 20-21 November, 2003.
• Presented paper "Gramsci, Law, and the Culture of Global Capitalism," at the Images of Gramsci Conference, University of Nottingham, UK, 24- 25 October 2003.
• Presented paper "International Law and the Emerging Global Business Civilization" in the DeansÕ Lunchtime Lecture Series, University of Victoria Downtown, 12 February 2004.
• Presented paper "Theorizing Resistance in the Peripheries: Indigenous Peoples and International Law," at the Leverhulme Conference on Global Change and Democracy, Center for the Study of Globalization, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 6- 7 March, 2004.
• Public Address on "Global Governance and Private Authority" to the Club of Athens Global Governance Group on Montreal, 16 March, 2004.
• Organized a Roundtable on International Law, Hegemony and Empire: Problematizing the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy, and spoke on "Conventional and Unconventional Theoretical Approaches to Law and the Global Political Economy," at the International Studies Association, 17- 20 March, 2004.
• Organized Panel on Linking Local and Global in Law and Policy and presented paper "Indigenous Peoples and International Law: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion" at the International Studies Association, 17- 20 March, 2004.
• Organized, Chaired, and presented on a panel on The Future of Global Governance: A Roundtable in Honour of the Scholarship of Mark W. Zacher at the International Studies Association, 17- 20 March, 2004.
• Presented paper "Transnational Law Firms and the Emerging Global Business Civilization," at the Annual Meeting of the SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Globalization and Autonomy, Centre for the Study of Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University, 1-3 October, 2004.
• Presented paper "Indigenous Identity and International Law: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Dispossession through Property" at the Annual Meeting of the SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Globalization and Autonomy, Centre for the Study of Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University, 1-3 October, 2004.
• Discussant of "Law and Property" at the Annual Meeting of the SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Globalization and Autonomy, Centre for the Study of Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University, September, 2004.
• Presented "Problematizing Corporate Social Responsibility under Conditions of Postmodernity and Late Capitalism,"at a Conference on Changing Patterns in the Global Political Economy, 14- 16th October, 2004, University of TYbingegn, Germany.
• Presented "Defining Critical Globalization Studies in International Law," at the Workshop on Globalization, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 11th November 2004.
• Presented "Privatized Governance, Transnational Law Firms, and Global Capitalism," at the Annual Meeting of the SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Project on Globalization and Human Autonomy, McMaster University, held at the University of Toronto, Munk Centre for International Studies, September, 2005.
• Presented "Indigenous Identity and International Law: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Dispossession through Property," in Property Rights, Contestation, and Autonomy, at the Annual Meeting of the SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Project on Globalization and Human Autonomy, McMaster University, held at the University of Toronto, Munk Centre for International Studies, September, 2005.
• Presented "Conceptualizing and Theorizing Corporate Security Responsibility: Canadian Oil, Gas, and Minerals Corporations," at the Conference on Corporate Security Responsibility, Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany, September 29- October 1, 2005.
• Presented "Private of Public? International Law and the State of the State," at the Conference on The State of the State: New Challenges in the 21st century, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, February 1-3, 2006.
• Organized and Chaired the panel World Order and the Postmodern Prince: Whence Capitalism? A Panel in Honour of Stephen Gill, recipient of the International Political Economy Distinguished Scholar Award at the International Studies Association Meeting, where I presented a paper "Stephen Gill, International political Economy and the New Constitutionalism," San Diego, March 24, 2006.
• Presented "Bilateral Investment Treaties, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Developing World," and Chaired the Panel on Corporations as Agents of International Change: The Diffusion of Global Standards, International Studies Association, San Diego, March 22, 2006.
• Presented "Critical Theory, Transnational Law, and the Global Political Economy: The Commodity Form Theory of Law," on the Panel on The Missing Conversations: Law, Economics and International Theory, International Studies Association, March 22, 2006.
• Presented paper "Locating 'The TransnationalÕ: Boaventura de Sousa Santos and the New Legal Common Sense" at the Workshop Honouring the Work of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Faculty of Law, University of Glasgow, Scotland, November 2-3, 2006.

Courses

 

• Political Science 329: Political Foundation of International Law
  • Course Outline summer 2011
  • group projects
• Political Science 340: International Studies
  • Course Outline fall 2010
• Political Science 343: International Studies
  • Course Outline spring 2011; summer 2011
• Political Science 533/633: On Global Governance and Crisis
  • Course Outline spring 2011

Research Projects

Dr. A. Claire Cutler has been awarded a Visiting Chair for July-December, 2011 with the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) located at The Hague, The Netherlands. The Visiting Chair on Private Actors and Globalisation is awarded for six months to a Visiting Professor of high repute who is invited to advance an international and interdisciplinary research agenda relating to the significance of private actors and globalisation and to increase awareness of such matters amongst non-academic audiences. The duties of the Visiting Chair include the conduct of Expert Meetings in the area of private actors and self-regulation and the conduct of Conferences and Workshops examining suchmatters in collaboration with the HiiL Project on Private Transnational Regulation, led by Professor Fabrizio Cafaggi from the Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. The Visiting Chair will also disseminate research findings at scholarly international meetings, in a public lecture to be delivered at The Hague, and in a Workshop to be held under the auspices of HiiL at the University of Victoria in 2012. HiiL Highlights

The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL)

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Dr. A. Claire Cutler has been awarded a grant to host a Workshop on “Law, Contestation, and Power in the Global Political Economy” at the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain in June 2012. <a href="http://www.iisj.net/?sesion=1347" target="_blank">Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law

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Public Appearances

Dr. A. Claire Cutler has been awarded a grant to host a Workshop on “Law, Contestation, and Power in the Global Political Economy” at the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain in June 2012. Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law

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Dr. A. Claire Cutler has been awarded a Visiting Chair for July-December, 2011 with the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) located at The Hague, The Netherlands. The Visiting Chair on Private Actors and Globalisation is awarded for six months to a Visiting Professor of high repute who is invited to advance an international and interdisciplinary research agenda relating to the significance of private actors and globalisation and to increase awareness of such matters amongst non-academic audiences. The duties of the Visiting Chair include the conduct of Expert Meetings in the area of private actors and self-regulation and the conduct of Conferences and Workshops examining suchmatters in collaboration with the HiiL Project on Private Transnational Regulation, led by Professor Fabrizio Cafaggi from the Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. The Visiting Chair will also disseminate research findings at scholarly international meetings, in a public lecture to be delivered at The Hague, and in a Workshop to be held under the auspices of HiiL at the University of Victoria in 2012. HiiL Highlights

The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL)

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UVICMUM



Dr. Cutler will be delivering the Keynote Address to the University of Victoria Model United Nations (VICMUN) proceedings on “International Legal Theory” at the Opening Ceremonies on Friday November 5 at 6:30pm in the Engineering and Computer Science Building (ECS) 125.

The topic of the presentation is :

“The Status of the Individual under International Law: Transformational  Developments in International Legal Theory.”

Students are welcome to attend the talk.

 

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Dr. Claire Cutler, Professor of International Law and Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria speaking on “Privatized Security Governance: the Case of Power, Profit and Security Arrangements for the Vancouver Olympics” at the Public Forum on The Global Crisis and the Crisis of Global Leadership: Critical Perspectives on Global Governance held by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Helsinki, Finland.