SFU School for International Studies

The School for International Studies has revamped its Certificate in International Studies! ✨️

The certificate is open to all SFU students and is designed to complement any major. It gives students a flexible way to bring a global perspective to their degree through courses on peace and conflict, human rights and development, global affairs, diplomacy, security, politics, and regional dynamics.

The certificate consists of 18 units:
✅️ Two lower-division International Studies courses
✅️ Three upper-division International Studies courses

Students can declare after completing IS 101 by emailing [email protected] with a copy of their advising transcript. The minimum CGPA to enroll and graduate is 2.0.

Learn more: https://www.sfu.ca/internationalstudies/undergraduate/certificate.html

Dive into the interdisciplinary field of International Studies with IS 101. Examine the biggest global challenges of our time from poverty and inequality to environmental degradation, armed conflict, and more. Fulfils the B-Hum/B-Soc requirement.

See our list of current courses: https://buff.ly/4nOPjjF

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Nazanin Shahrokni, IS associate professor and author of Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran, speaks on her life's work, diving into the inextricable ties between women, activism, and revolution in Iran. Listen at MERIP Podcast:

The MERIP Podcast Episode 24: Iran in Context Part I Gender and Revolution

"Northern cable security is becoming a test of Canada’s Arctic readiness." Nicole Jackson, a professor of international studies, calls for a clear response plan to undersea cable disruptions in an op-ed for Policy Options. Read full:

Canada needs an Arctic undersea cable security plan Canada needs a response plan for northern undersea cable failures before uncertainty, delay and misinformation deepen the damage.

"This Mother’s Day is a chance for the B.C. Labour Ministry to ensure immigrant farm-worker women are protected by the same rights as all working people."
An op-ed co-written by senior lecturer Anushay Malik shares the hard reality of many women toiling in B.C.'s agriculture industry:

Opinion: Mother’s Day not all celebration for farm-worker women in B.C. Opinion: South Asian women farm workers experience double precarity: economic and workplace vulnerabilities compounded by social isolation.

On May 13, join us for an urgent conversation with Professor Arang Keshavarzian of New York University, exposing the drivers beneath the conflicts in the Persian Gulf region since the mid-19th century.

Please note that the event venue has changed! The event has been moved to Harbour Centre Room 1900 Fletcher Challenge Theatre.

RSVP: https://buff.ly/Z9JGQDR

**Please note that the venue has changed too Harbour Centre room 1900**

On May 13, join us for an urgent conversation with Professor Arang Keshavarzian of New York University, exposing the drivers beneath the conflicts in the Persian Gulf region since the mid-19th century.

Why have so many U.S. administrations engaged in military confrontations in and over the Persian Gulf in the past five decades? Since the Iran-Iraq War and through to the current Operation Epic Fury, presidents — Republicans and Democrats, neoconservatives, liberal internationalists, and American Firsters —have turned to militarization and war-making in the Gulf to project American power locally and globally. To answer this question, we must contend with the contradictions in the way the waterway is imagined and the material constitution of it as a geographic region.

Building on analysis marshalled in Making Space for the Persian Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East, Arang Keshavarzian, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, will draw on the long history of geopolitical thought and infrastructures of capitalism that have made the 2026 US-Israeli war on Iran possible. Notably, these same forces have been exposed as the Achilles heel of U.S. power and undermined the possibilities of regional integration that would make regional order sustainable and efficacious.

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Ahead of the NATO July summit in Ankara, associate professor and former NATO Defence College Fellow Nicole Jackson says, "Canada should arrive in Ankara ready to push NATO toward a more practical Arctic posture"—a more proactive role in security and protecting Canadian interests in the High North.
Read the article at Open Canada: https://buff.ly/rsyOVpx

These nondescript cables on the sea floor are a lot more important than you could imagine. "Undersea communication cables have become strategic infrastructure because they sit at the intersection of economic connectivity, military resilience, and information stability," writes associate professor Nicole Jackson. Jackson is a foreign and security policy scholar researching cable security and the risks associated with poor management.

Read the full article in the Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare:
https://buff.ly/dJjjGxh

On May 13, join us for an urgent conversation with Professor Arang Keshavarzian of New York University, exposing the drivers beneath the conflicts in the Persian Gulf region since the mid-19th century.

Building on analysis marshalled in Making Space for the Persian Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East, Arang Keshavarzian, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, will draw on the long history of geopolitical thought and infrastructures of capitalism that have made the 2026 US-Israeli war on Iran possible. Notably, these same forces have been exposed as the Achilles heel of U.S. power and undermined the possibilities of regional integration that would make regional order sustainable and efficacious.

RSVP: https://buff.ly/I7uB7LA