Monique Taylor

Dr Monique Taylor is a University Lecturer in World Politics in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki and a research affiliate at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Public Policy and Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University, research fellow at the National University of Singapore, and lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland.

Taylor specialises in political economy and international relations. At a conceptual level, she is interested in exploring questions of governance and institutional change. She has a long-standing interest in China’s political economy, focusing on state capitalism and the political economy of state-owned enterprises, through empirical examination of strategic sectors such as the oil industry and other energy sectors, and the information and communications technology sector. In other work Taylor has explored aspects of regionalism and global governance.

Her research has been published in a range of leading international scholarly journals and edited volumes. Notably, Taylor's first book titled 'The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security' was published by Palgrave Macmillan’s International Political Economy Series in 2014. This monograph received positive reviews in top academic journals including The China Quarterly, where Dr Andrews-Speed (NUS) concluded, “In this book, Monique Taylor has provided a thoughtful and refreshing analysis of China’s oil industry that should be read by students, scholars and policy analysts interested in the governance of this country. The line of argument is well-founded and convincing.” Her latest book published by Palgrave Macmillan, China's Digital Authoritarianism: A Governance Perspective, is out now. In addition, she is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs.