International organizations, law, and norms

COVID-19 and UN Peacekeeping: Professor Katharina Coleman on posing existing global governance questions with new urgency

Professor Coleman argues that the pandemic has highlighted tensions in UN peacekeeping, posing existing global governance questions with renewed urgency.

Prof. Brian Job teaches final class before retirement

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!

“Other nations need to speak up, now”: Read Prof. Michael Byers’ latest about US space policy

“Other nations need to speak up, now”: Read Prof. Michael Byers’ latest about US space policy

Michael Byers latest titled: U.S. policy puts the safe development of space at risk

Fourth-year student Yoojung Lee’s pandemic research journey

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.

UBC Political Science Professor Yves Tiberghien publishes on Canada’s global strategy for the 21st century

UBC Political Science Professor Yves Tiberghien publishes on Canada’s global strategy for the 21st century

UBC Political Science Professor Yves Tiberghien worked with a team of Canadian experts on two recently published papers highlight issues confronting Canada in the 21st century including global power shifts, the retreat of democracy, climate change, and the digital arms race. 

PhD grad Yana Gorokhovskaia: It may seem Putin controls the Russian state personally. The reality is more dangerous

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.

“It’s Time for a Truly Canadian Space Mission,” writes Prof. Michael Byers

“It’s Time for a Truly Canadian Space Mission,” writes Prof. Michael Byers

Apophis will pass within 40,000 kilometres of the Earth, closer than communications satellites in geostationary orbit. Spacecraft that could intercept and track asteroids could be built in BC.

Grace Jaramillo

SSHRC postdoctoral fellow Grace Jaramillo publishes on COVID-19 and Latin American Global Value Chains

SSHRC postdoctoral fellow Grace Jaramillo published a new analysis on how COVID-19 is an opportunity to re-think Latin America (dis)connection to Global Value Chains

Four third-year Honours students published in the Journal of East Asian Studies

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.

UBC Political Science alumna shortlisted for the Macpherson Prize

UBC Political Science alumna shortlisted for the Macpherson Prize

Congratulations to UBC Political Science alumna Dr. Laura Montanaro whose book, Who Elected Oxfam? A Democratic Defense of Self-Appointed Representatives, has been shortlisted for the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association.