About
Brian L. Job (PhD, Indiana University) was Professor of Political Science and a resident Faculty Associate of School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.
He joined the UBC faculty in 1989, having previously been on the faculty of the University of Minnesota. He has served as Director of the Centre of International Relations, Director of the MSSP/Security and Defence Program, Director of the Canadian Centre for Human Security, Interim Director of the Liu Institute, and Associate Director of the Institute of Asian Research.
His teaching and research interests concern international security—more specifically, the evolving security order of the Asia Pacific, intrastate conflict, human security, and Canadian foreign and security policies. Job has been actively involved in Asia Pacific expert networks, particularly with the Council of Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), serving as Co-Chair Canadian CSCAP Committee, CSCAP Regional Co-Chair, and Editor CSCAP Regional Security Outlook (2007-2012). He has served as a Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
Job has been co-editor of International Studies Quarterly, and of Global Governance, and currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal and of International Relations of the Asia Pacific. He has been a visiting professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo; Nanyang Technical University, Singapore; and the Australian National University.
Research
See About and Publication sections.
Publications
Recent Publications:
Brian Job, Chien-wen Kuo, Chiung-Chiu Huang, eds., 2022. Strategic Options of Middle Powers in the Asia-Pacific. New York: Routledge.
Brian Job, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Dilemmas of Middle Powers,” in Chien-wen Kuo, Chiung-Chiu Huang, and Brian Job, eds., 2022. Strategic Options of Middle Powers in the Asia-Pacific. New York: Routledge, Pp. 34-56.
Anastasia Shesterinina and Brian Job, 2016. “Particularized Protection: The United Nations and the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict?” International Peacekeeping. 23 (2): 240-273.
Job, Brian. 2016.“Evolution, retreat or rejection: Brazil’s, India’s and China’s normative stances on R2P” Cambridge Review of International Affairs,Vol. 29, 3.
Job, Brian and Anastasia Shesterinina, 2014. “China as a Global Norm-Shaper: Institutionalization and Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect,” in Alexander Betts and Phil Orchard (eds), Implementation and World Politics: How International Norms Change Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Research in Progress:
David Dewitt, Paul Evans, and Brian Job, 2024, Canada and Cooperative Security in Asia Pacific, 1989-2005.
Awards
H.T. Morse-Amoco Foundation Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 1987
UBC Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008
Graduate Supervision
Recently completed PhD advisees:
Stewart Prest. Civil Peace, Political Conflict: Understanding Negative Cases of Civil War. 2015. SSHRC Postdoc, Carleton University. Currently Lecturer, Department of Political Science, UBC.
Anastasia Shesterinina. Post-Conflict Violence and Transformation of Social Networks. 2014. SSSHRC Postdoc, Yale University. Currently Professor and Chair Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science, York University, UK. Thesis publication: “Collective Threat Framing and Mobilization in Civil War,” APSR. 110, 3. 411-427.
Avery Poole, Processes of Socialization in Regional Institutions: ASEAN and the Charter. 2013. Currently Assistant Director, University of Melbourne School of Government. (tenured)
Leanne Smythe. The Non-Traditional Security Agenda: The End of the Traditional Military? 2013. Assistant Professor of Political Science, Trinity Western University.
PhD Research Committee Member (recently completed)
Mo Al-Hairabi (2018), Carla Winston (2016, University of Melbourne), Pascale Massot (2015, University of Ottawa) Deborah Farias (2014, University of New South Wales), Aim Sinpeng (2013, University of Sydney), Daisaku Higashi (2013, Sophia University)
Masters students recently completed (post-graduate position):
Ellen Brookes, 2017. PhD program, University of Western Australia. University Scholarship.
Aden Dur-e-Aden, 2014. PhD Program, University of Toronto, SSHRC Fellowship.
Katie Meredity. 2014. Trade Officer, Government of Alberta.
Sam Slota Newsom. 2014. Officer, UK Armed Forces.
Kevin McCleod. 2013. Executive Council, Government of Alberta.
Anton Bezglasny. 2012. Senior Analyst, DND Ottawa.
Karen McCrae. 2012. BC Center of Substance Abuse
Yunnan Chen, PhD Program, Johns Hopkins University.
Gihan, Indragupta, Foreign Ministry of Sri Lanka.