Ron Deibert on the Toronto Star's top Canadian thinkers list
January 10, 2012
Ron Deibert, professor and director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, has been named as one of Canada’s top thinkers according to the Toronto Star because he “cultivates a hothouse where human rights meet cyberspace.” He has won kudos as one of the five most influential IT security thinkers in […]
Undergraduate Award Reception
January 9, 2012
The Annual Undergraduate Award Reception was held on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 in the Political Science Lounge and celebrated the award recipients from the 2010-2011 academic year. One of the awards is the Pollara Statistical Confidence Award, which is awarded to the student who produces the best research report in POL 242Y. The 2010-11 recipient […]
Alanna Krolikowski Awarded Sylvia Ostry Doctoral Fellowship in International Policy
January 9, 2012
Alanna Krolikowski, who is completing her doctoral dissertation in Political Science, has won the inaugural Sylvia Ostry Doctoral Fellowship in International Policy. She is also affiliated with the Asian Institute. The fellowship is supported by an endowment gift from Dr. Sylvia Ostry and her family. Administered by the Munk School of Global Affairs, the fellowship […]
Embrace this blessing in disguise; Freedom of religion is not itself religious – it puts religion in its proper place, argues Clifford Orwin
January 9, 2012
Religious-freedom office is a blessing, non-believers Article by Clifford Orwin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto; Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution 9 January 2012, The Globe and Mail It’s easy to make a bad argument against the Harper government’s plan to establish an Office of Religious Freedom within the Department […]
Sylvia Bashevkin comments on NDP Leadership
January 4, 2012
NDP’s Female Contenders Must Offer Substance, Not Just Style Article by Sylvia Bashevkin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. 4 January 2012, The Globe and Mail The NDP leadership race presents, in many respects, a déjà vu experience. For more than 30 years, candidates for the federal party’s top job have claimed […]
Semra Sevi talks about balancing academic and extracurricular activities
January 2, 2012
Semra always knew that she wanted to be a debater and dreamed of attending law school. So, when she arrived at U of T, she wasted no time jumping straight into an array of extracurricular activities. “I first discovered the many clubs at U of T at clubs day in my Frosh Week and never […]
Michael Ignatieff teaches students about the hard realities of Parliament Hill
December 9, 2011
At Massey College, Michael Ignatieff teaches students about the hard realities of Parliament Hill By Lisa Bryn Rundle, UofT Magazine Winter 2012 While it’s not uncommon for engineering professors to have worked as engineers, or law professors to have worked as lawyers, you don’t find many political scientists who can draw on their experiences as […]
Clifford Orwin examines the European Identity
December 9, 2011
Too big to fail, too vague to succeed; The old national allegiances stand muted, expressing themselves only in soccer stadiums. Yet, they still trump the continental one Article by Clifford Orwin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto; Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution 8 December 2011, The Globe and Mail Europe’s […]
Harald Bathelt on the potential outcome of this week’s EU summit in Brussels
December 8, 2011
What if the euro leaders fail? Laura Stone, Toronto Star 6 December 2011 “Harald Bathelt, geography and political science professor at the University of Toronto, said he believes the EU leaders will come up with a solid fiscal union plan to get Europe back on track, enough to convince investors to have faith in the […]
Jeffrey Kopstein discusses the Eurozone
December 8, 2011
Echoes of history threaten eurozone; The economic crisis is mired in the past while racing against time Madhavi Acharya-Tom Yew, Toronto Star 3 December 2011 “The European union is a response to Europe’s violent history. The initial hope was that by tying the economies of Germany and France together you would never have a war […]