Professor Richard Price Discusses Chemical Weapons in Washington Post Article
President Trump launched a cruise missile strike Thursday to punish the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad for the alleged use of chemical weapons. Assad’s apparent sarin attack represented yet another blow to the global norm prohibiting the use of chemical weapons.
In memoriam of Mark Zacher
Mark Zacher, with a freshly minted PhD from Columbia University, joined the Department of Political Science in 1966. He was hired to teach the gentler face of Janus, dealing with cooperation through international institutions and regimes
Jennifer Welsh: 2017 Mark Zacher Distinguished Visitor
On Monday March 20, 2017 from 12-2pm, Dr. Jennifer Welsh, author of the #1 Bestseller, The Return of History, will be giving a talk to our Department as part of the Mark Zacher Distinguished Visitor Program.
Congratulations to Anastasia Shesterinina on her new tenure-track position
Congratulations to Anastasia Shesterinina (PhD 2014) on her new tenure-track position of Lecturer in Politics/International Politics at the Department of Politics, at the University of Sheffield in the UK! She will begin her new position in January 2017.
Şule Yaylacı, UBC-Yale Fox Fellow
Political Science PhD Candidate, Şule Yaylacı, was recently awarded the UBC-Yale Fox Fellowship, and is now at Yale, where she will be wrapping up and disseminating her PhD research, and engaging in the academic community at one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Prof. Yves Tiberghien: Canada’s China strategy is in desperate need of repair
Should we enter into a Faustian bargain, selling our soul to scrape together uncertain economic benefits? As the nation struggles to solve a conundrum of its own making, we are becoming bystanders to some of the greatest changes in global history. Canada deserves better.