Professor, Department of Political Science, Director Emeritus, Institute of Asian Research, Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research and Director of the Center for Japanese Research, The University of British Columbia (UBC)
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Yves Tiberghien (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2002; Harvard Academy Scholar 2006; Fulbright Scholar 1996) is a Professor of Political Science and Director Emeritus of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia. He is also the Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research and Director of the Center for Japanese Research at UBC. Yves is a Visiting Professor at the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science (National Tsinghua University, Taiwan) and an adjunct Chair Professor, International Doctoral Program in Asia-Pacific Studies (IDAS), National Chengchi University in Taipei.
Yves is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada and a Senior Fellow at the University of Alberta’s China Institute. He is an International Steering Committee Member at Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD) and a visiting professor at Sciences Po Paris. He has held other visiting positions at Tokyo University, GRIPS (Tokyo), and the Jakarta School of Public Policy (Indonesia).
In November 2017, he was made a Chevalier de l’ordre national du mérite by the French President.
His research focuses on the comparative political economy of East Asia and on global economic and environmental governance. His latest book is The East Asian Covid-19 Paradox (2021. Cambridge University Press, with post-2021 updates found here), to be soon followed by a second one, titled East Asia’s COVID Responses: Long-Term Lessons.
He is working on three other books, respectively titled The Hedgers: the Global South in A Transactional World (with Zaki Laidi), Up for Grabs: Disruption, Competition, and the Remaking of the Global Order and Navigating the Age of Disruption: Options in a Shifting Global Order. He is also leading a research project on the political economy of the twin industrial revolutions (digital/AI and green tech).
His previous books include Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea (2007, Cornell University Press); L’Asie et le futur du monde (2012, Paris: Science Po Press); and Leadership in Global Institution-Building: Minerva’s Rule (2013, edited volume, Palgrave McMillan). In 2020, he edited an online collection of papers on Japan’s leadership in the Liberal International Order.
In 2023, he co-edited an online collection of short papers on the political economy of the twin industrial revolutions (AI and green tech) in Japan and East Asia. He has published articles and book chapters on the political economy of Japan and China, global governance, global climate change politics, and the governance of agricultural biotechnology.
Dr. Tiberghien co-founded the Vision 20 initiative in 2015, a new coalition of global scholars and policy-makers aiming at providing a long-term perspective on the challenges of global economic and environmental governance.
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Yves’ research specializes in East Asian comparative political economy, international political economy, and global economic and environmental governance, with an empirical focus on China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and Europe
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2020 Tiberghien, Yves. “The Battle over GMOs in Korea and Japan” in Esarey, Ashley, Mary Alice Haddad, Stevan Harrell, and Joanna Lewis Ed. Eco-Developmentalism in East Asia. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
2020 Tiberghien, Yves. “Asia’s Rise and the Transition to a Post-Western Global Order.” In Contending Views on the Decline of Western-Centric World and the Emerging Global Order in the 21st Century, edited by Yun-han Chu and Yongnian Zheng. London: Routledge. Pp. 357-378.
2020 Tiberghien, Yves. « La nouvelle route de la soie, pivot des relations commerciales contemporaines ? » (the New Silk Road, anchor of contemporary global trade relations?), in Delas, Olivier ed. Relations commerciales internationales: l’Union Européenne et l’Amérique du nord à l’heure de la nouvelle route de la soie. Bruxelles : Larcier. Pp. 23-34.
2020 Tiberghien, Yves. « Les relations Union Européenne -Chine » in Delas, Olivier ed. Relations commerciales internationales: l’Union Européenne et l’Amérique du nord à l’heure de la nouvelle route de la soie. Bruxelles : Larcier. Pp. 253-274.
2020 Tiberghien, Yves. « Divergence and convergences des positions Chine- -Union Européenne - États-Unis dans les crises internationales » in Delas, Olivier ed. Relations commerciales internationales: l’Union Européenne et l’Amérique du nord à l’heure de la nouvelle route de la soie. Bruxelles : Larcier. Pp. 533-540.
Teaching
Semester: Fall 2024 | 11310TSE 501200 | 2 credits
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This course focuses on the foundations of international political economy, both theoretically and substantively. We initially discuss the various theoretical approaches to IPE, as well as key debates in trade, finance, currency, and investment questions. It also applies the theories and frameworks of IPE to the great questions of our time: the role of governance in markets, changing political economy of development, overcoming the resource curse, the transition of global economic order and hegemonic transition, climate political economy and the green technology revolution, digital and AI political economy, global sanction politics, and others. The session brings all frameworks down to the level of concrete empirical policy questions.
Semester: Spring 2025 | 11320TSE 602100 | 2 credits
Module: MGPE Core
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This course analyzes the key forces and patterns that have shaped international relations with the Greater East Asian Region since 1945. It focuses on a few key questions: 1. What explains East Asia’s relative success in overcoming colonization, poverty, and fragmentation in the post war period? 2. What explains East Asia’s pattern of soft, informal, and multi-layered regional institutionalism? 3. What explains the diversity of patterns of international behavior exhibited by key players, such as China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Indonesia?