If Canada succeeds in persuading the US to compromise, it could provide other countries with an example of how to deal with Washington

U.S. President appears prepared to cheat and offer bribes to snatch an electoral victory, despite the obvious headwinds against him

Citizens and leaders are abandoning the rules of liberal democracy. What can reverse the trend?

The rise of the far right has been a defining feature of political systems in developed democracies over the past two decades. In recent research, Alison Johnston and Juliet Johnson demonstrate that d...

Editorial: The president’s image and name are proliferating in Washington and beyond, overturning well-advised democratic taboos on glorifying sitting leaders

Is the U.S. President losing his grip over the Republican Party?

Across Europe, a new divide is hardening over how to respond to Russia’s aggression. The divide cuts across the familiar lines of left and right, and even

Discover the world's top universities for Politics. Explore the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 in various disciplines.

The Great Depression was a turning point in the development of social programming in North America. This paper explores the politics of social policy expansion during the Great Depression in the Uni.....

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Many theorists assume that social power operates only by way of agents’ intentional actions and their causal influence on outcomes—where causality is understood to imply making a difference. This arti...

The past year has been marked by near-constant upheaval, with new, revised or abandoned directives emerging from the Oval Office almost daily. The result is a sustained and dangerous transformation in...

Introduction In response to the ongoing trade war between Canada and the United States, triggered by Donald Trump’s return to the White House, calls to liberalize trade within Canada have gained unpre...

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This latest sequence in the diplomatic charade once again obscures the fundamentals that define the intractability of the Russo-Ukrainian war: Russia has

A new chapter for Chinese Studies at McGill This fall semester marked an important milestone for McGill with the launch of the new Centre for Global Chinese Studies 全球中华研究中心 (CGCS), a university-wide ...

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Rising crime, weak economy spurred public dissatisfaction with outgoing left-of-centre government

Amy Janzwood’s newest book, Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance: Tar Sands, Social Movements, and the Politics of Energy Infrastructure, investigates campaign coalitions that were formed to oppose two meg...

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