Prof. Michael Byers estimates a six to 10 per cent chance of casualties from falling space junk if trends continue
Prof. Byers asked: “Is it permissible to regard the loss of human life as just a cost of doing business, or is it something that we should seek to protect when we can?
UBC Centre for Migration Studies, Profs Ellermann & Hopkins, part of $12M Bridging Divides research program
Profs. Antje Ellermann and Vince Hopkins are among seven UBC core researchers as part of the Bridging Divides research program, led by Toronto Metropolitan University. The Center for Migration Studies has been awarded $12.4 million in Canada First Research Excellence Funds as a partner on the program.
Watch: “When voting no is not enough: Legislative brawling and obstruction in Korea” Prof. Gyung-Ho Jeong
Professor Gyung-Ho Jeong argues that legislators with intense policy preferences engage in costly actions, such as brawling and obstruction, as a means of signaling their policy commitments.
Visiting Prof. Swaran Singh on India, China & US relations: “both sides agree on the need to begin a new chapter of confidence building”
“As [India and China] learnt to deal with their bilateral and historic problems,” visiting Prof. Singh notes, “they now need to learn ropes of engaging each other in their new avatars as major powers and especially in their interface in regional and global fora.”
UBC Political Science is looking to fill up to two Lecturer positions
The Department of Political Science is seeking to hire up to two full-time Lecturers, who will teach courses at the undergraduate level including Introduction to Politics, other lower-level survey courses, and courses in their field of specialization based on the teaching needs of the Department.
Watch: Prof. Kathryn Stoner delivers this year’s Mark Zacher Distinguished Speaker Lecture
Mark Zacher Distinguished Speaker Prof. Kathryn Stoner presented a lecture titled, “Russia’s War on Ukraine: What You Should Know and Why You Should (Still) Care,” discussing why Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022, what he wants, what damage he has inflicted on Ukraine, and how this impacts Russia’s economic and political evolution.
Watch: Conference on French-German Relations 60 Years after the Élysée Treaty
On February 23, we hosted a conference evaluating the relevance of the Élysée Treaty in times of political-economic turbulences and war.
Q&A with Prof. Katharina Coleman & Prof. Xiaojun Li on new book, “Token Forces”
What are token forces? How did they come about, and how should they be conceptualized? Written by UBC Political Science Profs. Katharina Coleman and Xiaojun Li, Token Forces: How Tiny Troop Deployments Became Ubiquitous in UN Peacekeeping defines, examines the rise of, and evaluates the significance of ‘token forces’ to UN peacekeeping missions.
Prof. Max Cameron discusses the tumultuous state of democracy in Peru
Prof. Cameron specifically mentioned Alberto Fujimori, who he says “had sold some property and bought a tractor, and drove around in this tractor with a trailer behind it, called it the Fujimobile, drove around the shantytowns of Peru, gathering popular support.”
Op-Ed: Prof. Yves Tiberghien & MA Candidate Panthea Pourmalek ask, can elections survive the digital age?
“Studying the role of social media in elections in Brazil, the Philippines, South Korea and Kenya offers important lessons — among them, that policy makers should develop tailored solutions for these problems based on individual states’ contexts, rather than assuming one size fits all.”