Prof. Xiaojun Li receives funding for investigation of global supply chains in a post-pandemic world
How do global supply chains adapt to a global pandemic when raw materials, parts, components, and services cross national borders multiple times before final products are sold on world markets?
New PoliSci podcast showcases cutting-edge research in comparative politics
Political Science professors Alan Jacobs and Yang-Yang Zhou launched Scope Conditions, a new podcast featuring the cutting-edge research being done in comparative politics, which provides a virtual platform for academics to share their recent advances in the field.
Prof. Brian Job teaches final class before retirement
Congratulations to Professor Brian Job, who due to his well-deserved retirement next year, taught his last undergraduate Political Science class this week!
Fourth-year student Yoojung Lee’s pandemic research journey
Fourth-year student Yoojung Lee has spent the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic working on a formal research project about democratic health communications in South Korea.
Prof. Lisa Sundstrom says “nothing has improved” with LGBTQ rights in Russia since 2014
Lisa Sundstrom, associate professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, said on a legal level, “nothing has improved” with LGBTQ rights in Russia since the 2014 Olympics.
PhD grad Yana Gorokhovskaia: It may seem Putin controls the Russian state personally. The reality is more dangerous
PhD Grad Yana Gorokhovskaia writes for the Guardian on Kremlin-critic Alexei Navalny’s recent poisoning and what it reveals about power structures in Russia.
Four third-year Honours students published in the Journal of East Asian Studies
UBC Political Science is proud to announce that four third-year honours students have published book reviews for the Journal of East Asian Studies (Cambridge) this Spring.
Yves Tiberghien interviewed by CBC about Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou key court battle loss
The CBC’s Andrew Nichols talks with Yves Tiberghien of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada after B.C. Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes released her decision on the Huawei exec’s ‘double-criminality’ argument.
Yves Tiberghien: Facing the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression
Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, the world is not only facing a pandemic that keeps claiming lives, but also the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s. Growth has turned negative, unemployment keeps rising, trade is collapsing, capital flows are fleeing emerging markets, and remittances are falling.
Yves Tiberghien appointed as the Canadian Chair on the International Steering Committee of PAFTAD
Professor Yves Tiberghien was appointed to the International Steering Committee of PAFTAD, the prestigious network of international economists and former policy-makers from APEC countries.