Wishing a Happy Retirement to Professor Brian Job
The Department of Political Science wishes a happy retirement to a cherished colleague and renowned mentor of students who has been a cornerstone of UBC Political Science’s International Relations faculty for over three decades.
“Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis” Prof. Yang-Yang Zhou publishes in APSR
Using new, global subnational data from the UNHCR on where refugees are located, Yang-Yang Zhou and Andrew Shaver find no effects of hosting refugees on conflict or violence.
Trudeau pledges support for Ukraine, mum on support for next step in NATO membership
UBC Political Science Prof. Allen Sens believes Ukraine joining NATO will be raised only out of politeness, but that it’s largely “off the table.”
Pipeline Workers Are Scaring Indigenous Elders Away From Their Own Lands
UBC Political Science Professor Sheryl Lightfoot explains how governments and states are “completely side-stepping” Indigenous human rights while extracting resources without consultation and consent of traditional Indigenous communities.
Canada’s oldest oil and gas trade association to drop ‘oil’ from its name in bid to alter image
Prof. Kathryn Harrison noted several companies have removed the word “oil” from their name, using the term “energy” as a euphemism for oil while maintaining the company’s operations.
Prof. Yang-Yang Zhou named as a CIFAR-Azrieli Global Scholar
Dr. Zhou joins the Boundaries, Membership, and Belonging research program, which explores how to create and empower groups without falling back into ideas that produce pernicious divisions and hierarchies.
Prof. Kathryn Harrison notes BC’s carbon tax didn’t hurt the economy in The Tyee
“By now, we have a bunch of studies that have shown that it didn’t hurt British Columbia’s economy, it wasn’t regressive, which is often a concern, and it did reduce emissions below what they would have been otherwise,” said Kathryn Harrison.
COVID-19 tensions emerge in Japan as people are asked to stay home while Olympic Games deemed essential
Japan has done quite well with COVID-19 so far because of the rapid adoption of health instructions. However, the Olympics presents a challenge for the Suga government, notes UBC Political Science Prof. Yves Tiberghien.
What’s at stake in the runoff between leftist front-runner Pedro Castillo and right-wing, dynastic candidate Keiko Fujimori?
Maxwell Cameron and Paolo Sosa-Villagarcia write that a precarious or unpopular president facing an implacable but fragmented opposition in congress in Peru could undermine democracy.
Postdoctoral Fellow Amy Janzwood featured on Global Policy: Next Generation’s #scholarspotlight
Amy Janzwood discusses her book project on how broad-based social movements formed strategies that successfully frustrated pipeline development and new oil sands projects.