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.
Prof. Peter Dauvergne interviewed by The Ubyssey regarding the climate crisis
Professor Peter Dauvergne was recently interviewed by The Ubyssey on his optimistic stance regarding the current climate crisis.
Brilliant scholar Alan Cairns helped shape political thought in Canada
Hugh Alan Craig Cairns, who died in Waterloo, Ont., on Aug. 27 at age 88, a mentor, a kind, self-deprecating man whose interest in the work of his colleagues – whatever their age and status – was forever supportive, a teacher loved by his students.
Yves Tiberghien Discusses Trumps Meeting with Chinese President at Mar-a-Lago
This week’s Mar-a-Lago summit meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping of China has been heralded as the most significant bilateral summit in decades. The world paused to witness the mighty clash between the two most powerful men on Earth and the painful confrontation of the declining superpower with its rising challenger.
Professor Richard Price Discusses Chemical Weapons in Washington Post Article
President Trump launched a cruise missile strike Thursday to punish the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad for the alleged use of chemical weapons. Assad’s apparent sarin attack represented yet another blow to the global norm prohibiting the use of chemical weapons.
Statements in response to the U.S. executive order
The University of British Columbia is deeply concerned about a new executive order signed by President Trump on Friday preventing individuals from seven countries from entering the U.S. for 90 days. We are especially concerned about the effect of the executive order on some UBC students, faculty and staff, as well as other scholars in Canada, the U.S., and around the world.
New Washington Post Articles – Professor Paul Quirk, PhD Candidate Eric Merkley
Professor Paul Quirk and PhD Candidate Eric Merkley recently published articles in The Washington Post.
Video: Johnston on the US electoral landscape
The battle for the Republican nomination defied prediction and challenged much of what we thought we knew about parties in the United States. Many believed that Donald Trump was a creature of the media, doomed to obscurity once they lost interest. Instead, he activated potential Republican constituencies that had long been dormant. Something of the same happened on the Democratic side with the race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Is 2016 an historical accident, leaving no permanent impact, or has the electoral landscape been fundamentally transformed? What impact will this have on Canada?
Barbara Arneil on the Public Sector’s Glass Ceiling
“There’s an old saying: the higher, the fewer, with respect to women,” said Barbara Arneil, head of the University of B.C.’s political science department. “We have what I think are structural, systemic reasons why women are not reaching the top of their profession, whether that is in the university, whether that’s in government, whether that’s in the private sector. And we’re wasting very good resources.”
Prof. Yves Tiberghien: Canada’s China strategy is in desperate need of repair
Should we enter into a Faustian bargain, selling our soul to scrape together uncertain economic benefits? As the nation struggles to solve a conundrum of its own making, we are becoming bystanders to some of the greatest changes in global history. Canada deserves better.