Elliot Goodell Ugalde
Graduate Researcher
Political Studies
Queen's University
elliot.goodellugalde@queensu.ca
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, C303
About
Elliot Goodell Ugalde is a PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow in Political Studies at Queen’s University. He holds a B.A.H. in Political Science from the University of Victoria (2022) and an M.A. in Political Science from McMaster University (2024). His research sits at the intersection of international political economy, critical security studies and international economic security. He examines how financialization, monopoly capital, and technological change shape systemic economic risk, state power, and international security.
His work has appeared in journals including Capital & Class, Constellations, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, and Social Policy & Administration.
He has published policy research through the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University, the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance at Dalhousie University, and the International Karl Polanyi Society at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. He has also written public-facing commentary for outlets including Canada’s National Observer, The Conversation, The Tyee, Monthly Review and E-International Relations.
Research Interests
- Political Economy
- Critical Security Studies
- International Economic Security
Recent Publications
- Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. “Beyond Techno-Feudalism: A Monopoly-Capital Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Investment.” Capital & Class. (2026).
- Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. 2025. “Kinship Beyond Borders: Relational Sovereignty and the Limits of Liberal Statist Secession.” Constellations 32, no. 4: 601–622.
- Gintova, Maria, Abigail Jaimes Zelaya, and Elliot Goodell Ugalde. 2025. “User-Centered Policy Design: Challenges and Opportunities of Its Application for Social Policy in Canada.” Policy Design and Practice: 1–17.
- Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. 2026 “Artificial Intelligence and Crisis Economics: Marx, Financial Concentration, and Strategic Risk.” Research Report, Centre for International and Defence Policy. Queen’s University.
- Braun, Natalie, and Elliot Goodell Ugalde. 2026 “How the U.S.-Israel War on Iran Exposing the Limits of the Petrodollar System” The Conversation, May 11.
Online
- Website: elliotgoodellugalde.net
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/elliot_uga8142
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliot-g-ugalde-58183425a/
- Other: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1139-0194