Robert Pauls is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Studies at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China, and holds a PhD from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. His research is informed by approaches in comparative and international political economy and focuses on China in the context of global capitalism, including its industrial policy, monetary policy and the ongoing transformation of its growth model. His research has been published in the Journal of Contemporary China, the Journal of Contemporary Asia and the Cambridge Journal of Economics, among others.

Dr Pauls teaches the modules INS202 International Relations Research Methods, INS407 Global Transformations and Crises, and INS412 Global Political Economy.

He welcomes prospective PhD students who are interested in exploring the political economy of China through comparative and international political economy approaches, especially from critical and heterodox perspectives.

Office hours: Mondays, 15:30-17:00 and by appointment.

Transformations of China's political economy

Finance and monetary policy, industrial policy, labour relations with a focus on China

Théorie de la régulation, Marxian, and Critical Political Economy

Since 2018 Lecturer and assistant professor, Department of International Studies, Xi'an 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)

INS407 Global Transformations and Crises (MA)

INS412 Global Political Economy (MA)

Past:

INS102 International Political Economy (BA)

INS302 Final Year Project (coordinator) (BA)

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

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