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Dr  Justin  ROBERTSON 

BA Waterloo, MA Dalhousie, PhD Warwick

Associate Professor; Alumni Coordinator; Career Coordinator

Discipline: Political Science, International Political Economy, International Relations

Contact information
Office: YEUNG-Y7713
Phone: 3442-6301
Fax: 3442-0180
Email: justin.robertson@cityu.edu.hk
Website:
AC1 : Academic 1
MMW : Mong Man Wai Building
TYB : To Yuen Building
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Teaching
  • International Political Economy
  • Theories of International Relations
  • Asia and the World
Research Interests
  • International Political Economy
  • Firms as Actors
  • US International Economic Relations
  • The Foreign-Domestic Divide in Emerging Markets
Current/Recent Research Projects
  • "New" Finance in Emerging Markets (hedge funds, private equity funds, offshore, leverage)
  • Financial Returnees in East Asia
  • Interrogating 'Green' Bonds and 'Green' ETFs
Publications (Selected List)
  • “Global Networks on the Way Up and the Way Down: The Rise and Fall of the Seychelles as an Offshore Financial Centre” Global Networks, published online March 2020.
  • “Global Financial Networks Confront Headwinds: China’s Shifting Offshore Relationship with the British Virgin Islands” The Pacific Review, published online October 2019.
  • “India’s Offshore Pivot: the Implications of a Tougher Approach Towards Mauritius” Contemporary Politics Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 236-254
  • "Replica Localization in East Asia: The Case of the Asian Hedge Fund Industry" Globalizations, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2018) pp. 407-421.
  • "Emergent New Finance: Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds in East Asia" Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Vol. 22, No. 4 (2017) pp. 626-646.
  • Localizing Global Finance: The Rise of Western-Style Private Equity in China, London: Macmillan, Palgrave (2015).
  • “On the National Production of Global Elites: The Rise of a French Trained Global Elite in Financial Derivatives” International Political Sociology, Vol. 8. No. 3 (2014) pp. 275-292.
  • "Financial Returnees as New Agents in East Asia: The Case of Korean Private Equity Funds" New Political Economy, Vol. 18, No. 5 (2013) pp. 579-602.
  • "New Capitalist Processes, Interdependence and the Asia-US Private Equity Relationship" The Pacific Review, Vol. 25, No. 5 (2012) pp. 637-659.
  • "Private Equity Funds and Asian Political Economy: DomesticPrivate Equity Funds as New Actors," Asian Survey, Vol. 50, No. 2 (2010) pp. 356-377.
  • "Global Monitor: Private Equity Funds," New Political Economy, Vol. 14. No. 4 (2009) pp. 545-555.
  • US-Asia Economic Relations: A Political Economy of Crisis and the Rise of New Business Actors , London: Routledge, 2008.
  • (ed) Power and Politics After Financial Crises: Rethinking Foreign Opportunism in Emerging Markets (Houndmills: Palgrave International Political Economy Series, 2007).
  • "Reconsidering American Interests in Emerging Market Crises: An Unanticipated Outcome to the Asian Financial Crisis,"Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2007) pp. 276-305.