Congratulations to UBC Political Science alum Pascale Massot (PhD’15) for winning the 2024 Best Book Award in International Political Economy at the International Studies Association (ISA)!
Pascale, who is now an Associate Professor in Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, won for her book China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets.
China’s Vulnerability Paradox explains the uneven transformations in global commodity markets resulting from China’s contemporary, dramatic economic growth.
Through a series of case studies, Pascale argues that the balance of market power between Chinese domestic and international market stakeholders explains their behaviour as well as the likelihood of global institutional change. At a time of deepening US-China economic tensions, her book provides an alternative understanding of the interacting dynamics between the political economy of Chinese and global markets.
Pascale Massot with her book
