“The conditions are ripe for this kind of violence,” says Prof. Max Cameron about recent unrest in Peru
“Increasingly, politics has been conducted by candidates who use parties as vehicles — parties allow you to get registration with the electoral authority and run for office, but they’re not real parties,” Prof. Cameron said.
Registrations open for the first pan-Canadian Model European Union
The Delegation of the European Union to Canada has announced the launch of the first pan-Canadian Model European Union simulation that will take place in Ottawa from 5-7 May 2023. Students can email Professor Kurt Huebner to apply to attend.
Prof. Yves Tiberghien comments on Canada’s new roadmap for engaging with Japan and South Korea
Professor Yves Tiberghien said recent leadership changes in Japan, South Korea, and China require Canadian stakeholders to pay close attention – especially because the changes coincide with significant social discontent in all three countries.
Prof. Yves Tiberghien calls China’s COVID-19 policy “unsustainable” in CBC interview
“It’s difficult in the sense that [China has] reached an impasse, where they have forced everyone to do perpetual tests, to have sudden quarantines at home, lockdowns, and nobody can plan their life. The economy is in freefall,” says Prof. Tiberghien.
Prof. Kathryn Harrison discusses what Canada and China co-hosting COP15 means for climate politics
Prof. Harrison reminds readers that “it’s easy to underestimate how many people there are at these meetings who are deeply committed to trying to move things forward in a positive way and who really care about climate and biodiversity,” despite the political tension present.
Prof. Yves Tiberghien interviewed about Chinese COVID-19 policies and protests
On the difficulty of President Xi Jinping’s COVID-19 decisions moving forward, Prof. Tiberghien says that “the exit is difficult because if they give in to the public to save the legitimacy of the regime, they’re going to have a big number of cases and of deaths.”
Prof. Yves Tiberghien & MA Candidate Dustin Lo discuss China’s zero-COVID policy “trap”
“China’s zero-COVID response to the Omicron variant after March 2022 has become all-encompassing, unpredictable and economically ruinous,” they write in this op-ed. “A logic of political control has pushed aside pragmatic health and economic policy,” leaving the Chinese public frustrated.
Scope Conditions Episode 3.2: Repression Through Political Trials with Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh
Dr. Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh discusses the role of courts as political institutions, as well as her new book, ‘Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts’ in this episode of Scope Conditions Along with Profs. Alan Jacobs and Yang-Yang Zhou.
Op-Ed: the recent VPD social safety net report “isn’t about policing at all,” argues Prof. Carey Doberstein
“In fact, the report isn’t about policing at all,” says Prof. Doberstein on the recent VPD “social-safety-net” report. Rather, it “makes ignorant and oversimplified pronouncements about how funds are directed.”
Prof. Kathryn Harrison comments on the “rise in illegal deeds as a form of activism”
“I think my concern with this form of civil disobedience,” says Prof. Harrison, “is that the connection to the actions that they are trying to get from governments from their fellow citizens is not clear enough.” She acknowledges the activists’ goals, but notes that their actions may actually have an opposite effect.