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Professor Joseph Carens wins 2014 CB Macpherson Prize

May 29, 2014

The department is proud to announce that Professor Joseph Carens’ book, The Ethics of Immigration (Oxford University Press, 2013), has won the 2014 C.B. Macpherson Prize for the best book in political theory written by a Canadian. The prestigious Macpherson Prize was established to honour the life and work of Crawford Brough Macpherson (1911-1987), an […]

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Congratulations to Mark Manger on his successful SSHRC

May 28, 2014

Professor Mark Manger has been awarded a three-year SSHRC Insight grant for his project, “Mercantilism in a Liberal Economic Order,” in collaboration with Thomas Sattler (London School of Economics) and J. Scott Matthews (Memorial University).   ‘Why do some countries run persistent current account surpluses? Why do others run deficits, often over decades, leading to […]

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Congratulations to Margaret Kohn on her successful SSHRC

May 22, 2014

Professor Margaret (Peggy) Kohn has been awarded a SSHRC grant for her project titled, Spaces of Civil Disobedience: From Sanctuary to Occupy. “Any juridical order needs places where it is possible to explore alternatives. Subaltern counter-publics are particularly important in a democracy where these spaces play a role in formulating and disseminating critical points of […]

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Congratulations to Stephen Clarkson on his successful SSHRC

May 8, 2014

Professor Stephen Clarkson has been awarded a 5-year SSHRC grant for his project titled, “North America’s Engagement in a World of Regions: Bilateralism vs. Regionalism in Foreign Investment Protection Regimes (1988-2018)”. Clarkson’s most recent project addressing the inter-regional diffusion of rules and institutions promoting trans-national corporations’ investments in the Euro-American Triangle was supported by the […]

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