Wishing a Happy Retirement to Professor Brian Job
The Department of Political Science wishes a happy retirement to a cherished colleague and renowned mentor of students who has been a cornerstone of UBC Political Science’s International Relations faculty for over three decades.
“Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis” Prof. Yang-Yang Zhou publishes in APSR
Using new, global subnational data from the UNHCR on where refugees are located, Yang-Yang Zhou and Andrew Shaver find no effects of hosting refugees on conflict or violence.
Prof. Yves Tiberghien: In Japan, South Korea and China, it is clear that aging will have a negative impact on growth
The three countries of North-East Asia must urgently adapt their economic and social model to the rapid aging of their populations, warns political scientist Yves Tiberghien in a forum in Le Monde.
PhD candidate Alex Rivard and alumni Eric Merkley investigate support for Canada’s supply management system
Alex Rivard and Eric Merkley conduct the first academic investigation on the dynamics of public support for Canada’s supply management system, which regulates dairy, poultry, and eggs.
“None of the opposition parties want an election right now,” Professor Emeritus Richard Johnston tells AFP Fact Check
Richard Johnston says Canada’s opposition parties fear the Liberal government will ask to dissolve Parliament, as its position in the polls seems relatively favourable for reasons related to COVID.
Trudeau pledges support for Ukraine, mum on support for next step in NATO membership
UBC Political Science Prof. Allen Sens believes Ukraine joining NATO will be raised only out of politeness, but that it’s largely “off the table.”
UBC Political Science students build websites to help the public understand some key issues in Canadian Politics
UBC Political Science students studying with Professor Fred Cutler have created a new set of guides to some of the key issues in Canadian politics.
Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for inclusion, democracy and reconciliation recipient Xi Yuan Pang interviewed in Vancouver Sun
“I hope this award reflects not my contributions and civic engagements, but that it’s very much a testament to the people and the community at UBC who have given me that space to be who I am,” Xi Yuan (Cecilia) Pang said.
Pipeline Workers Are Scaring Indigenous Elders Away From Their Own Lands
UBC Political Science Professor Sheryl Lightfoot explains how governments and states are “completely side-stepping” Indigenous human rights while extracting resources without consultation and consent of traditional Indigenous communities.
UBC President Santa Ono’s Statement on the Missing Children of the Kamloops Indian Residential School
Universities, including UBC, bear part of the responsibility for this history, not only for having trained many of the policy makers and administrators who operated the residential school system, and doing so little to address the exclusion from higher education that the schools so effectively created, but also for tacitly accepting the silence surrounding it.