Publications

Monograph

Forthcoming: In search of a good political order for the Chinese Century. Saarbrücken: Éditions Universitaires Européennes.

Articles in edited volumes and journals

Forthcoming: “Expressing my attitude and doing something impossible to make it happen...”Listening to the Voices of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement Protesters, in: Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal. (peer-reviewed)

Forthcoming: “Honkongs framtid på en skör tråd”, in: Kinarapport 1/2017. (article in Swedish)

2016: "Do You Hear the People Sing" "Lift Your Umbrella"? Understanding Hong Kong's Pro-democratic Umbrella Movement Through YouTube Music Videos, in: China Perspectives 4/2016, pp. 59-68. (peer-reviewed)

French version: 2016: "Do You Hear the People Sing" "Lift Your Umbrella"? Le Mouvement des parapluies vu à travers ses chansons protestataires, in: Perspectives Chonoises 4/2016, pp. 59-68. (peer-reviewed)

2016 (with Johan Lagerkvist): The Mobilization of Memory and Tradition: Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement and Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Movement, in: Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal 2:2, pp. 735-774. (peer-reviewed)

2016: How Does China Impact the Future International Political Order? Conceptual Reflections of the “China Model” in Light of China’s Fragmented Polity, in: International Relations and Diplomacy 4:1, pp. 48-59. (peer-reviewed)

2016 (with Christopher Daase): Sicherheitskultur nach 9/11, in: Masala, Carlo/Fischer, Susanne (eds.): Innere Sicherheit nach 9/11. Sicherheitsbedrohungen und (immer) neue Sicherheitsmaßnahmen? Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Tim Rühlig (2015): Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement in Search of Self-determination. UI Paper, No. 3, November 2015.

2010 (with Katharina Grabietz, Fee Müller and Markus Patberg): “Internationale Politische Theorie”, in: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 4/2010.


Conference Papers

2016: Legitimate governance and state sovereignty in times of globalization. Europe and China in search of a “new deal”. Lecture at the China Foreign Affairs University, Peking.

2016: How Does China Deal with the Quest of Self-determination in Greater China? The case of Hong Kong. Presented at the International Studies Association Asia-Pacific conference, 25-27 June 2016, City University of Hong Kong.

2016: How does China impact the future international political order? Conceptual reflections of the “China model” in light of China’s fragmented polity. Presented at the International Studies Association Asia-Pacific conference, 25-27 June 2016, City University of Hong Kong.

2015/2016: How do Chinese view global governance? Chinese perspectives on the legitimacy deficit of global governance. Presented at the SWEPSA-conference, 14-16 October 2015, Stockholm as well as at the European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS-Workshops) of the European International Studies Association, 6-8 April 2016, Tübingen.

2015: “Do you hear the people sing” “Lift your umbrella”? Understanding Hong Kong’s pro-democratic umbrella movement through YouTube music videos. Presented at the Popular culture and World Politics Conference, 20-21 November 2015, University of Westminster, London. Lectures on similar topics have been held at the institute of media studies at the University of Stockholm, the institute of Political Science at Frankfurt University and the institute of China Studies at the University of Stockholm.

2015: Theorizing? IR in Contemporary China: The Role of Norms, Processes and Practices. Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, 18-21 February 2015, New Orleans.

2015: Norms and Processes: Thinking about IR in Contemporary China. Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, 18-21 February 2015, New Orleans.

2015: China and its WTO commitments: How interest groups shape China´s trade policies. Presented at the Global South Caucus conference of the International Studies Association, 8-10 January 2015, Singapore.

2015: Who makes Chinese foreign policy? Bringing the administration, think tanks and society back in. Presented at the Global South Caucus conference of the International Studies Association, 8-10 January 2015, Singapore.

2014: Zwischen Norm und Pragmatismus: Der Staat und die neue chinesische Weltordnung? Presented at the workshop "Der Staat in globaler Perspektive", 30-31 January 2014, University of Kassel.

2013: From Red Hacker Attack to Ai Weiwei’s “Dumbass”. Mapping Chinese cyber-activism and online debates and its impact on Chinese foreign relations. Presented at the “Pirating the Popular. Popular Culture and World Politics Conference”, 13-14 September 2013, Stockholm.

2011 (with Matthias Dembinski and Britta Weiffen): Rising States in a World of Regions. Regional Policies of the United States and China in Comparison. Presented at the ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, 25-27 August 2011.

2011: Western Individual or Chinese Collective? Towards a Trans-Individual Understanding of Morality. Presented at the young researchers conference “Liberalism: Causing or Resolving the Crises of Global Governance?”, 3-6 February 2011, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main.


Online Publications

Regularly, Tim publishes short articles at the Bretterblog (in German). Additionally, blog articles have been published (in German) in carta, “menschenhandel heute” and Sicherheitspolitik-Blog.