Colin Chia
@cchia.bsky.social
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Colin Chia
@cchia.bsky.social
· Jul 8
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.
www.cigionline.org
My latest work on lessons from the financial crisis comedy starring Christian Bale and Steve Carrell in "Don't Create the Shadow Money"
Reposted by Colin Chia
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
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
📣#CPSA_ACSP26 Call4Proposals
Pols of Division: Conflict Community Curriculum
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@csnrec.bsky.social
Pols of Division: Conflict Community Curriculum
👉 shorturl.at/AgUow
@jplewis.bsky.social @jrobkan.bsky.social @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social @jfdaoust.bsky.social @lindsaylarios.bsky.social @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social @balsillieschool.bsky.social
@csnrec.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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
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🪄
I wrote a response to Thomas Friedman's "magical thinking" on AI here: aiguide.substack.com/p/magical-th...
September 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology🪄
Hiring accountants is actually a really important way to get defence spending to the 5% target 🤫
September 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Hiring accountants is actually a really important way to get defence spending to the 5% target 🤫
My latest work on lessons from the financial crisis comedy starring Christian Bale and Steve Carrell in "Don't Create the Shadow Money"
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.
www.cigionline.org
July 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My latest work on lessons from the financial crisis comedy starring Christian Bale and Steve Carrell in "Don't Create the Shadow Money"
Long may Canada be our country to celebrate.
July 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Long may Canada be our country to celebrate.
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!
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.
www.uvic.ca
June 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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!
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courts to the US economy
May 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
courts to the US economy
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
May 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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
Russia btw is not a member of the workaround WTO appellate body after the US sabotaged the original one, so if the EU loses the case to Russia it can go "ha ha suckers" and put the case into limbo by appealing to a non-existent AB, which would be very amusing.
May 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Telling students the IPE course will cover "appeals into the void" does seem to keep them interested
Soumettez votre travail en cours à notre atelier de rédaction à la conférence ACSP! Date limite: 21 mai 👇
May 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Submit your work in progress to our editorial workshop at CPSA 2025! Deadline: 21 May
May 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
What can I say, historical IR drew me in again. Here's a book review I wrote. networks.h-net.org/group/review...
Chia on Anderson, 'The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State Formation' | H-Net
Anderson, James A.. The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State Formation. : University of Washington Press, 2024. 298 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780295752792. R...
networks.h-net.org
April 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
What can I say, historical IR drew me in again. Here's a book review I wrote. networks.h-net.org/group/review...
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.
April 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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.
Just posting to assert authorship of the term "geotechnoeconochronopolitics", you heard it here first
March 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Just posting to assert authorship of the term "geotechnoeconochronopolitics", you heard it here first
Trade war at the deli counter
March 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Trade war at the deli counter
Reposted by Colin Chia
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 [email protected]
February 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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 [email protected]
We're all economic nationalists now
February 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
We're all economic nationalists now
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...
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...
doi.org
June 5, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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...