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





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.