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2023

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Political Science

D-Index
44
Citations
9625
World Ranking
379
National Ranking
56

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Ian Taylor was affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on the field of Social Sciences with notable contributions in related subfields such as Development, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their scholarly work addressed a range of topics including:

  • International Development and Aid
  • China's Global Influence and Migration
  • Economic Growth and Development
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • African studies and sociopolitical issues
  • Economic Zones and Regional Development

Ian Taylor published articles in various academic journals. Frequent publication venues included the South African Journal of International Affairs and Third World Quarterly, each with two papers, as well as the Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Africa Spectrum, and Vestnik RUDN International Relations.

Their recent papers featured the following works:

  • In a fix: Africa's place in the Belt and Road Initiative and the reproduction of dependency, 2020, South African Journal of International Affairs
  • Sixty Years Later: Africa's Stalled Decolonization, 2020, Vestnik RUDN International Relations
  • China as a 'rising power': why the status quo matters, 2022, Third World Quarterly

Ian collaborated frequently with other academics. Notable coauthors included Dominik Kopiński, Pádraig Carmody, Tim Zajontz, Paulo de Carvalho, and Zhangxi Cheng.

In addition to journal articles, Ian Taylor authored a book titled The Political Economy of Chinese FDI and Spillover Effects in Africa published by Springer International Publishing in 2023.

Best Publications

  • China's oil diplomacy in Africa

    Ian Taylor

  • The Role of Models/and Analogies in Science Education: Implications from Research.

    Richard K. Coll;Ian Taylor

  • China's New Role in Africa

    Ian Taylor

  • China and Africa: Engagement and Compromise

    Ian Taylor

  • China's foreign policy towards Africa in the 1990s

    Ian Taylor

  • Dependency redux: why Africa is not rising

    Ian Taylor

  • The Forum on China- Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)

    Ian Taylor

  • Africa Rising?: BRICS - Diversifying Dependency

    Ian Taylor

  • The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa

    Ian Taylor

  • Global governance and conflict diamonds: the Kimberley Process and the quest for clean gems

    J. Andrew Grant;Ian Taylor

  • Promoting mental model building in astronomy education

    Ian Taylor;Miles Barker;Alister Jones

  • Stuck in Middle GEAR: South Africa's Post-Apartheid Foreign Relations

    Ian Taylor

  • Afro-regions : the dynamics of cross-border micro-regionalism in Africa

    Fredrik Söderbaum;Ian Taylor

  • Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of the 'New' South Africa

    Paul Williams;Ian Taylor

  • The ‘all-weather friend’? : Sino-African interaction in the twenty-first century

    Ian Taylor

  • Sino-African Relations and the Problem of Human Rights

    Ian Taylor

  • 'New Africa', Globalisation and the Confines of Elite Reformism: 'Getting the Rhetoric Right', Getting the Strategy Wrong.

    Ian Taylor;Philip Nel

  • Abstract P5-04-18: ARV-471, an oral estrogen receptor PROTAC degrader for breast cancer

    JJ Flanagan;Y Qian;SM Gough;M Andreoli

  • The limits of engagement: British foreign policy and the crisis in Zimbabwe

    Ian Taylor;Paul Williams

  • Not Forever: Botswana, Conflict Diamonds and the Bushmen.

    Ian Taylor;Gladys Mokhawa

  • The eastern industrial zone in Ethiopia: Catalyst for development?

    Philip Giannecchini;Ian Taylor

  • South African Foreign Policy and the Great Lakes Crisis: African Renaissance Meets Vagabondage Politique?

    Ian Taylor;Paul Williams

  • Flexigemony and Force in China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa: Sudan and Zambia Compared

    Pádraig Carmody;Ian Taylor

  • In a fix: Africa’s place in the Belt and Road Initiative and the reproduction of dependency

    Ian Taylor;Tim Zajontz

  • The Forum on China- Africa Cooperation

    Ian Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Fredrik Söderbaum
Fredrik Söderbaum University of Gothenburg
Paul D. Williams
Paul D. Williams George Washington University
Nigel South
Nigel South University of Essex
Oliver P. Richmond
Oliver P. Richmond University of Manchester
David Chandler
David Chandler University of Westminster
Darrell J. Steffensmeier
Darrell J. Steffensmeier Pennsylvania State University
Howard S. Becker
Howard S. Becker University of Washington
Jerry A. Jacobs
Jerry A. Jacobs University of Pennsylvania
Richard K. Coll
Richard K. Coll University of Waikato
Terence P. Thornberry
Terence P. Thornberry University of Maryland, College Park

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