Robert Pauls is an assistant professor in the Department of International Studies. Previously, he was a lecturer at the Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, where he also received his PhD in 2015. His research interests are in Comparative and International Political Economy with a focus on China and East Asia. In his research, he seeks to bridge theoretical divides between political science and economics as well as comparative and international political economy. His current research focuses on transformations of Chinas financial system.Robert Pauls teaches the modules INS202 International Relations Research Methods and INS407 Global Transformations and Crises.Dr Pauls welcomes students who are interested in Ph.D. research with a focus on the Comparative and International Political Economy of China, especially from critical and heterodox perspectives.

Office hours: Tuesdays, 11:00-12:30 and by appointment.

International and Comparative Political Economy of China and East Asia

Finance in and financialization of the Chinese economy

The Belt and Road Initiative and Global Political Economy

Comparative Capitalism, théorie de la régulation, Marxian and Critical Political Economy

Labour relations in China

Since 2018 Lecturer and assistant professor, Department of International Studies, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University

2010-2018 Lecturer and academic program coordinator at the Chair of East Asian Politics, Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr University Bochum.

2016-2017 Managing director at the Alliance for Research on East Asia Ruhr, Ruhr University Bochum University of Duisburg-Essen

2009-2011 Researcher and coordinator in the Co-Reach Project “International Migrant’s Ethnicity and its Impact on Labour Markets of the Receiving Countries” at the Institute of Sociology/Organisation, Migration, Participation, Ruhr University Bochum in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.

Current: 

INS202 International Relations Research Methods (BA IR)

INS407 Global Transformations and Crises (MA IR/IBGA)

Past:

INS102 International Political Economy (BA IR)

INS302 Final Year Project (coordinator) (BA IR)

The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize, 2023 (Runner-up)

Wilhelm-Hollenberg-Prize for best dissertation in the humanities and social sciences at RUB 2016