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Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal.
Montreal Quebec Canada
Joined April 2012
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Congratulations to Prof. Juliet Johnson (@excubs) who has been awarded the Arts Award for Distinction in Research and to Prof. Debra Thompson (@debthompsonphd) who has been awarded the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching!
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Congratulations to PSSA Awards for: Professor of the Year: Amy Janzwood Course of the Year: Leonardo Baccini - POLI 575 TAs of the Year: Rupinder Liddar and Brooke Steinhauer
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Congratulations to winners of the PSSA Awards for best courses in: Canadian: Daniel Béland - POLI 427 IR: T.V. Paul - POLI 360 Theory: Catherine Lu - POLI 362 Comparative- Developing: Simon Bertrand - POLI 319 Comparative- Developed: Debra Thompson - POLI 316
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Congratulations to @tariajadi whose dissertation has won a Dalhousie Doctoral Thesis Award, "an annual honour that recognizes dissertations that have made significant and original contributions to the academic community and Canadian society."
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Luc Barter Moulaison (RGCS Student Fellowship alumn) in CJPS/RCSP: “Une pièce d’étoffe que nous aurons à faire”: Louis Riel's Utopia: Between Prophecy and Politics
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Prof. Eric Bélanger in @LP_LaPresse on the decline of public services (en français). "Le désemparement de la population ouvre la voie au populisme et à des solutions faciles pour répondre au désarroi."
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RT @tvpaul1: My co-edited volume Complex Deterrence with late Patrick Morgan contains many useful chapters on understanding the deterrence…
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Statement on academic freedom and current events from @jtlevy, Chair of the Department of Political Science at McGill University.
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Professor Jacob Levy @jtlevy has been named an Adam Smith Templeton Fellow. Levy is among 8 other academics who have been given this honour by the John Templeton Foundation to mark the tercentenary year of Adam Smith. Congratulations!
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@RexBrynen explains that calls to evacuate civilians from Gaza generate fear that this would lead to a permanent depopulation of the area, and would be opposed by many, not least by Gazans themselves and Palestinian leaders.
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RT @McGillARTS: Today Professor Jacob Levy from @McGillPoliSci will be giving his #AdamSmith300 Templeton Foundation lecture at @KingsColle…
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@PopovaProf in @LP_LaPresse on how the war between Hamas and Israel benefits Russia by forcing the United States to invest in a new front. (in French)
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@RexBrynen in @LP_LaPresse on the consequences of the Hamas attack on Israeli domestic politics, relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and the peace process. (in French)
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@RexBrynen observes in @LeDevoir that the effect of the Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians on public opinion in the West will make it more difficult to find a solution to the conflict between Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (in French)
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Congratulations to Prof. Yann Allard-Tremblay, who has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
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@munizfraticelli on caps on int’l student visas: “This is really a misguided policy. It misunderstands the causes of the housing crisis, and it doesn’t appreciate the enormous contribution that int’l students make to Canadian universities, to Canadian higher education in general”
#WATCH: "Not a solution," says Oludayo Sokunbi, an international PhD student in Montreal, about an idea by the federal housing minister to cap the number of international study permits to help with Canada’s housing shortage. Felisha Adam reports.
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RT @debthompsonphd: “Unexplained differences in earnings compared with (white) people born in Canada)” RACISM. THE EXPLANATION IS RACISM I…
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@munizfraticelli argues against proposals to limit the number of international students, as it "would cause a tremendous amount of damage to [… Canada’s] excellent educational system and its excellent research and teaching facilities".
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