Here you will find research, scholarly works, and projects completed by contributors of the Canada and the Asia Pacific Policy Project.
B.M. Jain
Jain, B.M. (Forthcoming). South Asia: Victim of the Great Power Rivalry. In E. Fong, B., & E. Ja, C. (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Great Power Competition (July 2024).
Jain, B. M. (2024). Great Power Competition in Associated States: The Case of Bhutan. Johns Hopkins University Press. (Forthcoming Special Issue of Asian Perspective journal).
Jain, B. M. Book Project (Forthcoming). India and China: The Complex Relationship in the Age of Interdependence.
Jain, B. M. India-China Border Dispute: A Critical Inquiry. Chinese Journal of International Review (World Scientific Publishers).
Bala Raju Nikku
Das, T. K., Mehta, B., Nikku, B. R., Omer, S., & Granich, S. (2022). “Decolonizing South Asian social work: an analysis.” Social Work Education, 1-19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2022.2075843.
Nikku, B. R., Nepali, B., & Khatiwada, H. (2021). Earthquakes of Nepal: Making a case for Indigenous resilience. The Routledge International Handbook of Indigenous Resilience (pp. 285-299). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Indigenous-Resilience/Weaver/p/book/9780367499723.
Baloch, J., Nikku, B. R., & Shah, S. F. (2021). “Teaching and Practice of Community Organization and Development in South Asia: Evidence from Pakistan and Nepal.” Progressive Research Journal of Arts & Humanities, 3(1): 186-199. https://prjah.org/index.php/prjah/article/view/136.
Shoukat, A., Khalid, A., Jafar. M., Hassan, S.M & Nikku, B.R (2020). Culture and Politics of Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan: Borderlands and Conflict Areas as Critical Spaces for International Social Work, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, 57 (1): 523-529. http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/history/PDF-FILES/47_57_1_20.pdf.
Nikku, B. R. (2015). Living Through and Responding to Disasters: Multiple Roles for Social Work, Social Work Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2015.1090942.
Carlo Dade
Dade, C. (2023). China Brief 99: EU policies on China, U.S. Divided on IPEF & more, CanadaWest Foundation. https://cwf.ca/research/publications/china-brief-99-eu-policies-on-china-u-s-divided-on-ipef-more/.
Dade, C. (2023). What do Businesses in Alberta need from an Indo-Pacific strategy? CanadaWest Foundation. https://cwf.ca/research/publications/backgrounder-what-do-businesses-in-alberta-need-from-an-indo-pacific-strategy/.
Dade, C. (2023). Hot Takes on the U.S. Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and Canada, CanadaWest Foundation. https://cwf.ca/research/publications/commentary-hot-takes-on-the-u-s-indo-pacific-economic-framework-and-canada/.
Eric Li
Li, E. P, H., He, S. G., Lam, M. M.-L., & Liu, W.zS. (forthcoming) Utopia and Dystopia: Consumer Privacy and China’s Social Credit System. In Consumer Culture Theory in Asia: History and Contemporary Issues, Yuko Minowa and Russell W. Belk (eds), Routledge Frontiers in the Development of International Business, Management and Marketing.
Presentations:
Li, E., P. H. & Husain, M. (2021). Surveillance Technology and Agency: How does China’s Social Credit System Redefine Human Rights? Workshop on Canada and the Indo-Pacific Strategic Environment, Thompson River University, Kamloops, September 25.
Li, E., P. H., He, G., Lam, M., & Liu, W.-S. (2020). Utopia and Dystopia: Consumer Privacy and China’s Social Credit System (Special Session: The Management of Population and Social Sustainability: Precarious Consumers in Asia). Consumer Culture Theory Conference Proceedings, 2020.
Li, E., & Lam, M. M. L. (2019). Consumer Privacy and Consumer Citizenship: Distributed or Centralized Trust Among the Chinese Social Credit System. York Centre for Asian Research seminar, June 28.
Haval Ahmad
Ahmad, H., Christie, K., & Kampmark, B. (2024). Edited Volume: Countering Terrorism or Fuelling Extremism? The Comparative Growth of Global De-Radicalization Programs and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan.
Ahmad, H., & Christie, K. (2024). Radicalization, Terrorism, and Countering Extremism: Theory and Practice. Roman & Littlefield Publishers. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538160961/Radicalization-Terrorism-and-Countering-Extremism-Theory-and-Practice.
Ahmad, H., MacTavish, E., & Christie, K. (2024). The de facto Autonomous Governance and Stability in the Middle East: The Case of Kurds in Rojava. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2024.2314447.
Ahmad, H. (2023). Book Review: The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures, by Francesca Orsini, Neelam Srivastava, and Laetitia Zecchini, eds. (2023). The Canadian Journal Of Peace and Conflict Studies. https://www.peaceresearch.ca/issues/55-1/.
Ahmad, H. (2020). Book Review: Presidential Decision Making and Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era, by Dennis Ricci, London: Roman & Littlefield, 2019. The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies. https://www.peaceresearch.ca/issues/52-1-2/.
Ahmad, H., & Masinda, T.M. (2018). Research Note on Immigrant Youth Radicalization and Terrorism: Pre- and Post-Migration Considerations. Journal for Deradicalization, Winter (17), 295-312. https://journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php/jd/article/view/181.
Ahmad, H. (2017). Youth De-Radicalization: A Canadian Framework. Journal for deradicalization. Fall (12), 119-186. https://journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php/jd/article/view/113.
Kristen Hopewell
Hopewell, K. (2024). The (Surprise) Return of Development Policy Space in the Multilateral Trading System: What the WTO Appellate Body blockage means for the Developmental State, Review of International Political Economy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2024.2303681.
Hopewell, K. (2023). Canada Must Show Leadership in Backing Taiwan’s Pacific Trade Bid, The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-must-show-leadership-in-backing-taiwans-pacific-trade-bid/.
Hopewell, K. (2023). The BRICS Resurgence, Australian Institute for International Affairs. https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/the-brics-resurgence/.
Manfred Elfstrom
Clarke, K., & Elfstrom, M. (2022). “Power on the Margins: Lumpenproletarian Resistance in China and Egypt.” Comparative Politics 55(1):119-148. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5129/001041522X16540374328516.
Elfstrom, M. (2021). Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness, Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108923286.
Li, Y., & Elfstrom, M. (2021). “Does Greater Coercive Capacity Increase Overt Repression? Evidence from China.” Journal of Contemporary China 30(128), 186–211. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2020.1790898.
Mary Hanlon and Taylor Brydges
Hanlon, M., Brydges, T. & Hanlon, R. (2023). Boxing Week sales should remind us of Garment Worker’s fight for a Living Wage, Policy Options Politiques. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2023/ethics-boxing-sales/.
Paul Clark
Principal Investigator and Advisor
Serving as the Faculty Adviser, TRU Enactus Student Club: The TRU Enactus club promotes student opportunities and both local and international sustainability initiatives! https://enactus.ca/
Robert J. Hanlon
Hanlon, R., & Christie, K, (2024). Building a Human Security Diplomacy: Strategies for Strengthening the Canada-China Relationship. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Hanlon, R., & Lien, C. H. (2023). Managing the Canada-China Political Relationship in an Indo-Pacific Era. Canadian Political Science Review, 17(1), 147-150.
Hanlon, R. (2023). Canada and the Indo-Pacific Strategic Environment. Canadian Political Science Review, 17(1), 1-9.
Hanlon, R. (2022). Human Security and the Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility in China. London: Edward Elgar Press.
Hanlon, R. (2022). Asia Pacific Governance in a Chinese Century. In The Politics of Asia by Mark Williams (Ed). Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Hanlon, R., & Christie, K. (2016). Freedom from Want/Freedom from Fear: An Introduction to Human Security. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Hanlon, R. (2019). Human Trafficking and the Issue of Slavery in the Supply Chain. In Migration, Refugees and Human Security in the Mediterranean by Marion Boulby and Kenneth Christie (eds). New York: Palgrave McMillian.
Hanlon, R., & Christie, K. (2018). Human Security and Peacebuilding: Critical Tools for Operationalizing Human Rights in the Post-Cold War World. In The Routledge Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies by Sean Byrne, Thomas Matyok and Imani M. Scott (eds). New York: Routledge.
Hanlon, R. (2017). Thinking about the AIIB: Can a China-Led Development Bank Improve Sustainability in Asia? In Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies Vol.4:3, pp. 541-554
Hanlon, R., & Christie, K. (2017). Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility in Southeast Asia. In Routledge Handbook on Human Rights in Asia by Fernand de Varennes and Christie May Gardiner. New York: Routledge, pp. TBA.
Hanlon, R., & Kwon, K. L. (2015). A Comparative Review for Understanding Elite Interest and Climate Change Policy in China. In Environment, Development and Sustainability, pp, 1-17.
Hanlon, R., & Christie, K. (2014). Myanmars Transition and the Impact of the UN Global Compact on Development. In Addressing Integration and Exclusion: Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention by Y. A. Stivachtis & S. Abbott (eds), Athens: AIER, pp. 9-20.
Saira Bano
Bano, S. (2024). Pakistan at a Crossroads, The National Interest. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/pakistan-crossroads-209157.
Bano, S. (2024). As Pakistani Election Looms, the Military Maintain its Grip on the Country’s politics, The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/as-pakistani-election-looms-the-military-maintains-its-grip-on-the-countrys-politics-221395.
Bano, S. (2024). India’s Newfound Assertiveness is a Feature of the Great Game in South Asia, The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/india-s-newfound-assertiveness-feature-great-game-south-asia.
Co-edited: Bano, S., & Roberts, K. (2023). “Rethinking the Great Power Rivalry: The Ascendency of Regional Powers in Contemporary US-China Relations,” Palgrave McMillian Press. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-37612-2.
Presentations:
Bano, S. (February 2, 2023). Presentation: “A Potential Flashpoint: South Asia in the U. S. – China Great Power Competition,” Arts Lecture Series, Thompson Rivers University.
Scott Harrison
Harrison, S., & Huang, Q. (2023). “Canadian Twinning in the Indo-Pacific: The Agency of Non-central Governments in Present Relationships and Future Strategies.” Canadian Political Science Review Vol 17, No. 1, 2023, 25-56. https://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/cpsr/article/view/1863/1447
Harrison, S., & Sakudo, M. (2023). “Japan Needs More Labour. Is Immigration the Answer?” Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. https://www.asiapacific.ca/publication/japan-needs-more-labour-immigration-answer
Harrison, S., & Hara, K. (2022). “The Cold War, the San Francisco System, and the Indigenous Rights Movement in Japan.” Rivista italiana di storia internazionale 2 (July-December): 217-240. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.30461/106161
Harrison, S., & Huang, Q. (2022). “Citizen or City Diplomacy? Diplomatic Co-Production and the Middle Ground in Municipal Twinning Relationships.” The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 17(4), 654-668. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/1871191x-bja10127.
Harrison, S., Fox, S., & Huang, Q. (2022). “In an Age of Crisis, Canadian Engagement Abroad Needs an ‘Ecosystem Approach’” July 27. Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. https://www.asiapacific.ca/publication/age-crisis-canadian-engagement-abroad-needs-ecosystem
Projects:
Transnationally Indigenous: https://www.transnationallyindigenous.com/
AINUTODAY: https://ainutoday.com/
Personal Website: https://www.scottmharrison.com/
Victor V. Ramraj
Ramraj, V. (2023). “Global Challenges and Plurilateral Engagement in the Indian Ocean World”. 17(1) Canadian Political Science Review 10-24. https://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/cpsr/article/view/1867
About the Contributors:
B. M. Jain is a Senior Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the South Asia Studies Centre, University of Rajasthan.
Bala Raju Nikku is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work and Human Service, Thompson Rivers University.
Carlo Dade is the Director, Trade and Trade Infrastructure at the CanadaWest Foundation.
Haval Ahmad is an Associate Faculty in the School of Humanitarian Studies and School of Leadership at Royal Roads University.
Kristen Hopewell is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Policy, the University of British Columbia & Director for Liu Institute for Global Issues.
Manfred Elfstrom is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economic, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus.
Mary Hanlon is a Professor of Sociology at Okanagan College
Paul Clark is an Instructor in the School of Business and Economics; Department of Management, Information, and Supply Chain at Thompson Rivers University
Robert J. Hanlon is the Director of the Asia Pacific Policy Project and Associate Professor of Political Science at Thompson Rivers University.
Saira Bano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, History and Politics at Thompson Rivers University.
Scott Harrison is a Senior Program Manager, Northeast Asia for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and a Research Associate for the David Lam Centre for Asian Studies, Simon Fraser University.
Taylor Brydges is a Research Principal at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney.
Victor V. Ramraj is a Professor of Law and Chair in Asia-Pacific Legal Relations at the University of Victoria.