Political Science

Grace Miura-Wong received her B.A. from UBC and M.A. from SFU in Political Science. She is a current PhD student at Ottawa’s Carleton University, conducting research on East Asian-Canadian voting behaviour.

Grace has taught and assisted in the teaching of courses related to Canadian Politics, International Relations, and Human Rights.

My research interest center around International Relations, International Security, and Comparative Politics, with a particular focus on Eurasia, and Northeast and Central Asia.

Topics I address in my course include global and regional security, economics/IPE, and the developing world order. Currently, I study great power engagements in the security framework on the Korean Peninsula (Six-Party Talks).

I presented my findings at the Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), the International Conference on Economics, Management and Social Science, and a number of forums on transborder regional business engagement.

Richard holds a Master of Development Studies from the Geneva Graduate Institute, a Master of Public Policy from the KDI School of Public Policy & Management, an MA International Affairs – Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), and a BA Political Science with Sociology, University of Ghana.

He has worked with multiple organizations, including the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), GAN-Global and the Government of Ghana. Richard is currently pursuing his PhD at the Simon Fraser University.

His research centers around Security Sector Reform and Governance (SSR/G). He has taught multiple courses in Political Science and International Studies.

Colter Louwerse is a researcher and lecturer focusing on the transnational history and politics of Palestine and the Middle East. A graduate of the University of Exeter’s European Centre for Palestine Studies and the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies in the United Kingdom, he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in Middle East and Islamic Studies at Exeter in 2018, and in 2022 was awarded a doctorate in Palestine Studies.

Louwerse’s ongoing research addresses the diplomatic history of Canadian, American, and British foreign policy in the Middle East, Palestinian nationalism on the global stage, the role of the United Nations in negotiating self-determination, sovereignty and human rights claims in the context of the Palestine Question, and the interrelationship between asymmetrical warfare, political violence and conflict resolution in Israel/Palestine and the broader Middle East region.

Cornel Turdeanu holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from Simon Fraser University (SFU). Cornel has co-authored articles which have been published by think tanks such as the Macdonald Laurier Institute, and Latvian Institute of International Affairs, and a peer-reviewed academic paper in the French academic journal Canadian Studies / Etudes Canadiennes.

Cornel is co-founder and former manager of Canada’s largest NATO-focused educational program, the SFU NATO Field School and Simulation Program, and has several years experience working in the fields of government policy and public affairs.

I hold a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE), UK. I have research interests in counterinsurgency, international relations, security, terrorism, conflict, state-society relations, peacebuilding, and post-conflict reconstruction. My regional area of expertise is Sub-Saharan Africa. My work has focused on militarized responses to insurgent activities, and the harms to civilians from state and non-state actors particularly in the context of Nigeria’s Boko Haram crisis. I have published in the Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice. In the past, I have worked for Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and served as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of British Columbia and LSE. I have also taught political science courses at Columbia College and Corpus Christi College in Vancouver, Canada.