Julia Gurol
Biographic Data
| ID | 4096957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Gurol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Gurol |
| SIGNATURE | GUROL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4642-8013 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
World-Making in Concrete and Steel: Geo-Narration as Authoritarian Spatial and Temporal Practice in China–Saudi Relations
This article introduces “geo-narratives” to show how authoritarian regimes use infrastructure as both a tool of governance and a form of spatial and temporal storytelling. Rather than treating infrastructure as purely technocratic, the article shows how authoritarian states use it as a narrative device that encodes visions of modernity and legitimacy.” Geo-narratives link selected pasts with promised futures through depoliticized, technocratic la…
Reimagining Global Governance: Strategic Pluralism, Normative Blending, and the Emergence of a Polycentric Order
This research note offers a new theoretical framework to capture the current developments in global governance through the lens of strategic pluralism, normative blending, and polycentricity. Rather than viewing current dynamics as mere fragmentation or institutional decline, the article foregrounds the argument that they signal a structural transformation in global governance. Using illustrative empirical snapshots from different world regions, …
Competing ambitions regarding the global governance of artificial intelligence: China, the US , and the EU
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are developed and used across borders and have the potential to transform societies worldwide, global regulation thereof becomes necessary. However, key differences exist in how the leading players in the field, China, the United States, and the EU, view these technologies and approach their regulation. This article traces their respective ambitions on the global governance of AI technologies. It asks …
The Role of Narratives for Gaining Domestic Political Legitimacy: China’s Image Management during Covid-19
Crises constitute ideal opportunities for authoritarian leaders to promote certain narratives, shaping reality in their favor and crafting their own preferred storylines about current events. In other words: they serve authoritarian leaders on a silver platter the opportunity to instrumentalize these unforeseen circumstances to gain domestic political legitimacy by promoting strategic narratives. The COVID-19 pandemic was no exception in this reg…
Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state
Research on authoritarian connections beyond the state requires a transregional practices approach.This special issue is an invitation to combine critical approaches to the study of authoritarian power by paying attention to spaces of contestation, authoritarian practices, as well as nonstate actors and agency below and beyond the scale of the state.We focus on authoritarian practices and their spatial and temporal articulations in (1) transregio…
The authoritarian narrator: China's power projection and its reception in the Gulf
This article argues that transregional communication mechanisms and the diffusion of narratives are important co-drivers towards autocratization. Offering a look beyond the 'material' in the study of global authoritarianism, it makes two conceptual arguments. It shows show transregional authoritarian practices are often discursively reinforced. Moreover, it demonstrates how narratives and their transregional diffusion are a form of authoritarian …
“Contingent power extension” and regional (dis)integration: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its consequences for the EU
In this article, we explore the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a case of “Contingent Power Extension” (CPE) towards the European Union (EU), assessing its implications for regional (dis)integration in the latter. CPE is a conceptual prism that interprets the BRI as a polymorphous, dynamic, and context-specific mechanism through which Chinese foreign policy elites intend to convey, amplify, and legitimize the regime’s power-reach into other reg…
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic
Scholarly debates on Chinese foreign policy in the Middle East and the international dimension of authoritarianism have gained momentum since Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013. At the same time, the global pandemic provided a window of opportunity to autocrats worldwide to fine-tune their modes of surveillance for the sake of regime survival. This article deconstructs Sino-Emirati relations in the field of digital surveillance. Ins…
New Partners for the Planet? The European Union and China in International Climate Governance from a Role‐Theoretical Perspective
Only with the three largest emitters (the EU, China and the US) building a coalition was it possible to conclude the Paris Agreement in 2015. With the announced withdrawal of the US, the interdependence between the EU and China has increased significantly. Both actors have reiterated their will to implement the Paris Agreement and to cooperate on climate change. In times of political constraints between the EU and China, this seems puzzling. The …
The Role of the EU and China in the Security Architecture of the Middle East
For decades, contradicting foreign policy principles, including state sovereignty, territorial integrity, and non-interference have hindered cooperation between the EU and China beyond the economic realm. However, since the establishment of the EU-China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation (2013) we observe a shift towards cooperation. For instance, China and the EU have expressed the desire to collaborate on security issues in the Middle East. …
Beyond dichotomy: Towards conceptual and theoretical variety in EU-China research
Small States as Agenda‐setters? The Council Presidencies of Malta and Estonia
New Partners for the Planet? The European Union and China in International Climate Governance from a Role‐Theoretical Perspective
Only with the three largest emitters (the EU, China and the US) building a coalition was it possible to conclude the Paris Agreement in 2015. With the announced withdrawal of the US, the interdependence between the EU and China has increased significantly. Both actors have reiterated their will to implement the Paris Agreement and to cooperate on climate change. In times of political constraints between the EU and China, this seems puzzling. The …
Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state
Research on authoritarian connections beyond the state requires a transregional practices approach.This special issue is an invitation to combine critical approaches to the study of authoritarian power by paying attention to spaces of contestation, authoritarian practices, as well as nonstate actors and agency below and beyond the scale of the state.We focus on authoritarian practices and their spatial and temporal articulations in (1) transregio…
Small States as Agenda‐setters? The Council Presidencies of Malta and Estonia
The Role of Narratives for Gaining Domestic Political Legitimacy: China’s Image Management during Covid-19
Crises constitute ideal opportunities for authoritarian leaders to promote certain narratives, shaping reality in their favor and crafting their own preferred storylines about current events. In other words: they serve authoritarian leaders on a silver platter the opportunity to instrumentalize these unforeseen circumstances to gain domestic political legitimacy by promoting strategic narratives. The COVID-19 pandemic was no exception in this reg…
The authoritarian narrator: China's power projection and its reception in the Gulf
This article argues that transregional communication mechanisms and the diffusion of narratives are important co-drivers towards autocratization. Offering a look beyond the 'material' in the study of global authoritarianism, it makes two conceptual arguments. It shows show transregional authoritarian practices are often discursively reinforced. Moreover, it demonstrates how narratives and their transregional diffusion are a form of authoritarian …
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic
Scholarly debates on Chinese foreign policy in the Middle East and the international dimension of authoritarianism have gained momentum since Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013. At the same time, the global pandemic provided a window of opportunity to autocrats worldwide to fine-tune their modes of surveillance for the sake of regime survival. This article deconstructs Sino-Emirati relations in the field of digital surveillance. Ins…
Small States as Agenda‐setters? The Council Presidencies of Malta and Estonia
The Role of the EU and China in the Security Architecture of the Middle East
For decades, contradicting foreign policy principles, including state sovereignty, territorial integrity, and non-interference have hindered cooperation between the EU and China beyond the economic realm. However, since the establishment of the EU-China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation (2013) we observe a shift towards cooperation. For instance, China and the EU have expressed the desire to collaborate on security issues in the Middle East. …
Beyond dichotomy: Towards conceptual and theoretical variety in EU-China research
New Partners for the Planet? The European Union and China in International Climate Governance from a Role‐Theoretical Perspective
Only with the three largest emitters (the EU, China and the US) building a coalition was it possible to conclude the Paris Agreement in 2015. With the announced withdrawal of the US, the interdependence between the EU and China has increased significantly. Both actors have reiterated their will to implement the Paris Agreement and to cooperate on climate change. In times of political constraints between the EU and China, this seems puzzling. The …
“Contingent power extension” and regional (dis)integration: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its consequences for the EU
In this article, we explore the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a case of “Contingent Power Extension” (CPE) towards the European Union (EU), assessing its implications for regional (dis)integration in the latter. CPE is a conceptual prism that interprets the BRI as a polymorphous, dynamic, and context-specific mechanism through which Chinese foreign policy elites intend to convey, amplify, and legitimize the regime’s power-reach into other reg…
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic
Scholarly debates on Chinese foreign policy in the Middle East and the international dimension of authoritarianism have gained momentum since Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013. At the same time, the global pandemic provided a window of opportunity to autocrats worldwide to fine-tune their modes of surveillance for the sake of regime survival. This article deconstructs Sino-Emirati relations in the field of digital surveillance. Ins…
Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state
Research on authoritarian connections beyond the state requires a transregional practices approach.This special issue is an invitation to combine critical approaches to the study of authoritarian power by paying attention to spaces of contestation, authoritarian practices, as well as nonstate actors and agency below and beyond the scale of the state.We focus on authoritarian practices and their spatial and temporal articulations in (1) transregio…
The authoritarian narrator: China's power projection and its reception in the Gulf
This article argues that transregional communication mechanisms and the diffusion of narratives are important co-drivers towards autocratization. Offering a look beyond the 'material' in the study of global authoritarianism, it makes two conceptual arguments. It shows show transregional authoritarian practices are often discursively reinforced. Moreover, it demonstrates how narratives and their transregional diffusion are a form of authoritarian …
Competing ambitions regarding the global governance of artificial intelligence: China, the US , and the EU
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are developed and used across borders and have the potential to transform societies worldwide, global regulation thereof becomes necessary. However, key differences exist in how the leading players in the field, China, the United States, and the EU, view these technologies and approach their regulation. This article traces their respective ambitions on the global governance of AI technologies. It asks …
The Role of Narratives for Gaining Domestic Political Legitimacy: China’s Image Management during Covid-19
Crises constitute ideal opportunities for authoritarian leaders to promote certain narratives, shaping reality in their favor and crafting their own preferred storylines about current events. In other words: they serve authoritarian leaders on a silver platter the opportunity to instrumentalize these unforeseen circumstances to gain domestic political legitimacy by promoting strategic narratives. The COVID-19 pandemic was no exception in this reg…
World-Making in Concrete and Steel: Geo-Narration as Authoritarian Spatial and Temporal Practice in China–Saudi Relations
This article introduces “geo-narratives” to show how authoritarian regimes use infrastructure as both a tool of governance and a form of spatial and temporal storytelling. Rather than treating infrastructure as purely technocratic, the article shows how authoritarian states use it as a narrative device that encodes visions of modernity and legitimacy.” Geo-narratives link selected pasts with promised futures through depoliticized, technocratic la…
Reimagining Global Governance: Strategic Pluralism, Normative Blending, and the Emergence of a Polycentric Order
This research note offers a new theoretical framework to capture the current developments in global governance through the lens of strategic pluralism, normative blending, and polycentricity. Rather than viewing current dynamics as mere fragmentation or institutional decline, the article foregrounds the argument that they signal a structural transformation in global governance. Using illustrative empirical snapshots from different world regions, …
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · China (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Authoritarianism (5 works) · Corporate governance (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (5 works)