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37
Citations
8434
World Ranking
630
National Ranking
27

Overview

John Ravenhill is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and specializes in social sciences with a focus on political science and international relations, demography, sociology and political science, and general economics, econometrics, and finance.

The main research topics covered by their work include:

  • Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism
  • Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
  • Australian History and Society
  • Asian Industrial and Economic Development
  • Global trade and economics

The scientist has published multiple recent papers spanning from 2022 to 2024. Notable publications include:

  • "A Region at Risk of Unraveling?" (2022) in Asia Policy
  • "Response from the Authors: The Enduring Salience of East Asia's Automotive Experiences - Roundtable on Rick Doner, Gregory Noble, and John Ravenhill, The Political Economy of Automotive Industrialization in East Asia" (2023) in Journal of East Asian Studies
  • "Index" (2024) appearing in Cambridge University Press eBooks with three distinct editions or volumes

John Ravenhill has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • James Cotton
  • David Goldsworthy
  • Australian Institute of International Affairs

Their publication record shows a strong presence in the following venues:

  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Asia Policy
  • Journal of East Asian Studies

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to multiple book publications, notably four volumes published by Cambridge University Press titled:

  • Australia in World Affairs 1991-1995 (2024)
  • Australia in World Affairs 1996-2000 (2024)
  • Australia in World Affairs 2001-2005 (2024)
  • Australia in World Affairs 2006-2010 (2024)

Furthermore, they have authored a book titled Global Political Economy published in 2024 by Oxford University Press.

Best Publications

  • Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa

    Joseph R. A. Ayee;N. Chazan;R. Mortimer;J. Ravenhill

  • Beyond Product Cycles and Flying Geese: Regionalization, Hierarchy, and the Industrialization of East Asia

    Mitchell Bernard;John Ravenhill

  • Global Political Economy

    John Ravenhill

  • APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism

    John Ravenhill

  • The ‘new East Asian regionalism’: A political domino effect

    John Ravenhill

  • Cycles of middle power activism: Constraint and choice in Australian and Canadian foreign policies

    John Ravenhill

  • The new bilateralism in the Asia Pacific

    John Ravenhill

  • Multilateralising regionalism: what role for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement?

    Ann Capling;John Ravenhill

  • A three bloc world? The new East Asian regionalism

    John Ravenhill

  • East Asian regionalism: Much Ado about Nothing?

    John Ravenhill

  • The Asian financial crisis and the architecture of global finance

    Gregory W. Noble;John Ravenhill

  • Hemmed in : responses to Africa's economic decline

    York W. Bradshaw;Thomas M. Callaghy;John Ravenhill

  • Economic Cooperation in Southeast Asia: Changing Incentives

    John Ravenhill

  • The Asian and global financial crises: consequences for East Asian regionalism

    Ralf Emmers;John Ravenhill

  • Global value chains and development

    John Ravenhill

  • Is China an Economic Threat to Southeast Asia

    John Ravenhill

  • Pacific Cooperation: Building Economic And Security Regimes In The Asia-pacific Region

    Andrew Mack;John Ravenhill

  • Collective clientelism : the Lomé Conventions and north-south relations

    John Ravenhill

  • Africa in economic crisis

    John Ravenhill

  • Crisis as catalyst : Asia's dynamic political economy

    Andrew J. MacIntyre;T. J. Pempel;John Ravenhill

  • China's Move to Preferential Trading: a new direction in China's diplomacy

    John Ravenhill;Yang Jiang

  • Trading on Alliance Security: Australia in World Affairs 2001-2005

    James Cotton;John Ravenhill

  • Oxford handbook of the international relations of Asia

    Saadia M. Pekkanen;John Ravenhill;Rosemary Foot

  • Pacific economic relations in the 1990s : cooperation or conflict?

    Richard A. Higgott;Richard Leaver;John Ravenhill

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald Rothchild
Donald Rothchild University of California, Davis
James Cotton
James Cotton University of Glasgow
Dieter Ernst
Dieter Ernst Centre for International Governance Innovation
Ian McAllister
Ian McAllister Australian National University
Prema-chandra Athukorala
Prema-chandra Athukorala Australian National University
Diane Stone
Diane Stone European University Institute
Nicola Phillips
Nicola Phillips University of Adelaide

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