Facing the ire of 1.4 billion Chinese consumers: Prof. Xiaojun Li on supply chain risks in consumer boycotts for the Fulcrum
UBC Political Science Professor Xiaojun Li writes about the recent consumer boycott of international clothing brands in China through the lens of supply chain risk management.
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
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.
CALACS honours Dr. Maxwell Cameron as its 2020 Distinguished Fellow
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Maxwell Cameron was selected as the recipient of the Association’s Distinguished Fellow Award for 2020.
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.
Departmental Speaker: Antoinette Handley
Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto Antoinette Handley gave a talk titled: Doing business like a state? AIDS, violence and the construction of business autonomy on January 28, 2020 as the Departmental Speaker to the Department of Political Science.
Departmental Speaker: Eric Helleiner Oct 18, 2019
Departmental Speaker Dr. Eric Helleiner gave a talk titled, “Backlash against free trade: the diverse ideological roots of neomercantilism,” on October 18, 2019.
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.