Gurol-Haller, Dr. Julia

Position:

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Chair for International Relations, University of Freiburg

Email:

julia.gurol-haller [at] politik.uni-freiburg.de

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/J_GurolHaller

Areas of Research:

Global authoritarianism/transregional authoritarian practices; connectivity; (digital) infrastructure

Regional Focus:

Global China, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Education:

Since 2023	Member Young Academy
2017-2020	PhD, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
2015-2017	MA International Relations & BA Asian and Islamic Studies, Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
2011-2014	BA Social Sciences, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

Professional Experience / Applied Research:

Since 2023	Associate fellow, ABI Freiburg
Since 2020	Research associate (Post-Doc) and executive managing assistant, Chair for International Relations, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
2020	Guest researcher, Asia Studies Program, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
Since 2018	Associate fellow, Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO)
2019	Guest researcher, Tongji University Shanghai (China)
2017-2020	Research associate (Pre-Doc), Chair for Multilevel Governance, Albert-Ludwigs- University Freiburg

Projects:

Volkswagen-Foundation: Global autocratic collaboration in times of COVID-19: Game-changer or business as usual in Sino-Gulf relations? (2021-2022)

FRIAS early career researcher conference: Authoritarianism & Democracy: Transnational and Multiscalar Perspectives on Power and Spaces of Contestation (with Alke Jenss, Fabricio Rodríguez, Benjamin Schütze and Cita Wetterich)

Selected Publications:

Monograph:

(2022) The EU-China Security Paradox. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.

Articles & book chapters:

(2023) 'The authoritarian narrator: China's power-projection and its reception in the Gulf', International Affairs, Vol. 99, No. 2, pp. 687-705.

(2023) 'Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Collaboration in Times of a Global Pandemic', Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 32, No. 139, pp. 138-151 (co-authored with Tobias Zumbrägel & Thomas Demmelhuber).

(2022) 'Contingent Power Extension and Regional (Dis)Integration: China's Belt and Road Initiative and its Consequences for the EU', Asia Europe Journal (co-authored with Fabricio Rodríguez).

(2022) 'Infrastructuring Authoritarian Power: Arab-Chinese Transregional Collaboration Beyond the State', International Quarterly of Asian Studies, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 231-249 (co-authored with Benjamin Schütze).

(2022) 'South-South Cooperation: Between Cooperation on Eye-Level and Accusations of Neo-Colonialism', in: Regionalism and Global Governance, Jürgen Rüland & Astrid Carrapatoso (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing: 160-170 (co-authored with Sandra Destradi).

(2022) 'The Corona Temptation? Autocratic Linkages in Times of a Global Pandemic', in: The MENA Region and COVID-19: Impact, Implications and Prospect, Zeina Hobaika, Lena-Maria Möller, Jan Völkel (eds.). Routledge: 19-35 (co-authored with Thomas Demmelhuber & Tobias Zumbrägel).

(2020) 'The Role of the EU and China in the Security Architecture of the Middle East', Chinese Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 18-34.

(2020) 'Perspectives on Fieldwork in Security-Sensitive Spaces - Insights from China and the Southern Mediterranean', ABI Working Paper, No. 14 (co-authored with Cita Wetterich).

Freelance Academic Staff

Publications

Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)

Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state

Gurol-Haller, Dr. Julia / Dr. Alke Jenss / Dr. Fabricio Rodríguez / Dr. Benjamin Schütze / M.A. Cita (Universität Freiburg) Wetterich

GLOBALIZATIONS

Research on authoritarian connections beyond the state requires a transregional practices approach. This special issue is an invitation to combine critical approaches to the study of authoritarian power by paying attention to spaces of contestation, authoritarian practices, as well as non-state actors and agency below and beyond the scale of the state. We focus on authoritarian practices and their spatial and temporal articulations in (1) transregional infrastructures, (2) global processes of capital accumulation and (3) nature-society relations.

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