Colin Chia

Tether gets junked by S&P Collateral damaged

Well, Tether is worse than I thought

Annual Conference @isa-canada.bsky.social #CPSA_ACSP26
For the 20th consecutive year, ISA Canada will co-organize with CPSA the IR section of 2026 CPSA. Submit yr proposals on areas of interest in the study of IR!
Section Heads Can E. Mutlu (Acadia) Shaun Narine (St. Thomas). @jplewis.bsky.social

Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology🪄

Hiring accountants is actually a really important way to get defence spending to the 5% target 🤫

Could Stablecoins Create Financial Instability? Regulators need to act to manage risks that the rapid scaling up of stablecoins, and diverging approaches on how to govern them, pose to global financial stability.

My latest work on lessons from the financial crisis comedy starring Christian Bale and Steve Carrell in "Don't Create the Shadow Money"

People watching Canada Day fireworks

Long may Canada be our country to celebrate.

POLI 280-197 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

My department is hiring a limited term IR teaching position. Please forward and feel free to reach out to me if you'd like to chat about it!

courts to the US economy

To be clear I think the right answer in 2025 is "why not ALL the symbols?"

This old Kate Beaton comic about the flag debate in 1965 sums up the strangeness of how we're apparently doing Canadian identity politics in 2025

Telling students the IPE course will cover "appeals into the void" does seem to keep them interested

#CPSA_ACSP25

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There are more airplanes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.

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I wonder how this White House will react when the inspectors from Dublin arrive to check on the fleet of Delta Aviation Financing Ireland

What can I say, historical IR drew me in again. Here's a book review I wrote. networks.h-net.org/group/review...

It's wonderful how the White House's April 2 schedule ended with "8pm ET: Global markets respond to America's renewed strength."

Here's what the USA imported from the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands in 2024 (dataweb.usitc.gov). I'd love to know the story behind these figures, but anyway they're clearly ripping off America, very unfair.

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I don't think the right emoji for this exists

Just posting to assert authorship of the term "geotechnoeconochronopolitics", you heard it here first

Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States Americans have already been defeated by insurgents all over the world. Invading Canada would be no exception.

theconversation.com/why-annexing... Worth looking at Ahmad's extended piece too.

Trade war at the deli counter

Are you an ISA member resident in Canada? You’re also a member of the ISA-Canada region and you’re invited to our business meeting on Sunday March 2, 7:30pm at Boulevard A (Hilton). A reception will follow! For virtual attendance, contact colinchia@uvic.ca

Front page of Victoria Times-Colonist newspaper with banner reading "Shop local - buy Canadian"

We're all economic nationalists now

Technology and monetary sovereignty: Understanding motivations for central bank digital currencies - Colin Chia, 2024 Central bank digital currency (CBDC) projects have advanced the furthest in small or developing economies. In contrast, central banks in wealthy countries where...

Why did lower-income countries launch central bank digital currencies, while major economies are not going ahead with them? My latest article in Competition & Change doi.org/10.1177/1024...