Louis Pauly

J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy, Department of Political Science
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Current affiliations

  • Founding Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan

Areas of interest

  • International financial regulation and supervision
  • Political economy of industrial innovation
  • Management of global risks

Biography

Main Bio

Louis W. Pauly, the J. Stefan Distinguished Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, established the Centre for the Study of Global Japan in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy in 2017 and directed it until June 2019. He remains an affiliated faculty member of the Centre as well as of the Innovation Policy Lab and the International Relations Program. He served as Chair of the Department of Political Science from 2012 to 2017 and held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Governance from 2002 to 2016. He was Director of the Centre for International Studies at the U of T from 1997 to 2011. A graduate of Cornell University, the London School of Economics, New York University, and Fordham University, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Senior Fellow of Massey College, and a Fellow and Governing Board Member of Trinity College (Toronto). He has held visiting positions at the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre, Oxford University, Northwestern University, Osaka City University, the University of Munich, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, and the Brookings Institution. With Emanuel Adler, from 2007 to 2012 he edited International Organization, a top-ranked journal in the fields of international relations and international political economy. He was given the Distinguished Scholar Award in International Political Economy by the International Studies Association in 2015. Before his initial appointment at the U of T in 1987, Pauly held management positions in the Royal Bank of Canada, won an International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations, and served on the staff of the International Monetary Fund. 

 

Select publications

His personal and collaborative publications include Power in a Complex Global SystemHong Kong’s International Financial CentreGlobal Ordering: Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing WorldGlobal Liberalism and Political OrderComplex Sovereignty: Reconstituting Political Authority in the Twenty-First CenturyGoverning the World’s MoneyDemocracy beyond the State? The European Dilemma and the Emerging Global OrderThe Myth of the Global CorporationWho Elected the Bankers? Surveillance and Control in the World Economy; and Opening Financial Markets: Banking Politics on the Pacific Rim.

A New Multilateralism for the Twenty-First Century
By: Louis W. Pauly (2021)
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Darkness and Light in a Global Political Economy
By: Louis W. Pauly (2020)
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Mutual Entanglement and Complex Sovereignty in Cyberspace
By: Ronald J. Deibert and Louis W. Pauly (2019)
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The Anarchical Society and a Global Political Economy, Chapter 11 in The Anarchical Society at 40
By: Louis W. Pauly (2017)
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Canadian Autonomy and Systemic Financial Risk after the Crisis of 2008
By: Louis W. Pauly (2014)
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Governing Global Risks: The Evolution of Policy Capacity in the Financial Sector
By: Louis W. Pauly (2014)
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Chinese IPE Debates on (American) Hegemony
By: Wang Yong and Louis W. Pauly (2013)
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The Political Resonance of Nixon in China
By: Louis W. Pauly (2012)
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Negotiating Anglo-America: Australia, Canada and the United States
By: Christian Reus-Smit and Louis W. Pauly (2012)
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Supraterritorial Obligations, the Global Economy, and the Changing Politics of Responsibility
By: Louis W. Pauly (2011)
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Hong Kong's Financial Center in a Regional and Global Context
By: Louis W. Pauly (2011)
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Woodrow Wilson's Problem in Reverse: The Continuing Challenge of Making American Democracy Safe for the World
By: Louis W. Pauly (2010)
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The Old and the New Politics of International Financial Stability
By: Louis Pauly (2009)
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Managing Financial Emergencies in an Integrated World
By: Louis W. Pauly (2009)
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Innovation in the Indian Semiconductor Industry:  The Challenge of Sectoral Deepening
By: William Keller and Louis W. Pauly (2009)
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Financial Crisis Management in Europe
and Beyond

By: Louis W. Pauly (2008)
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The Institutional Legacy of Bretton Woods
IMF Surveillance, 1973-2007
By: Louis W. Pauly (2008)
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Monetary Statecraft in Follower States (Canada and Austria Compared)
By: Louis W. Pauly (2006)
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China, Semiconductors, and Security
By: William W. Keller and Louis W. Pauly (2005)
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Enforcing the Rules in a Global Economy: The Emergence of Structural Conditionality in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
By: Louis W. Pauly (2003)
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The League of Nations and the Foreshadowing of the International Monetary Fund
By: Louis W. Pauly (1996)
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The Obsolescence of Capital Controls?: Economic Management in an Age of Global Markets
By: John B. Goodman and Louis W. Pauly (1993)
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Books

  • Power in a Complex Global System

By: Edited By Louis W. PaulyBruce W. Jentleson(2014)Click here

  • Global Ordering Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World

Edited by Louis W. Pauly and William D. ColemanClick here

  • Global Liberalism and Political Order: Toward a New Grand Compromise?

Edited by  Steven BernsteinLouis W. Pauly(2007) Click here

  • Complex Sovereignty: Reconstituting Political Authority in the Twenty-First Century

By Edgar Grande and Louis W. PaulyClick here

  • Governing the World's Money

Edited by David M. Andrews, C. Randall Henning and Louis W. Pauly. Click here

  • Democracy beyond the State?: The European Dilemma and the Emerging Global Order (Governance in Europe Series)

By Michael Th. Greven (Author), Louis W. Pauly (Author), Stephen Clarkson (Contributor), Edgar Grande (Contributor), & 3 more(2000)Click here

  • The Myth of the Global Corporation

By Paul DoremusWilliam W. KellerLouis W. Pauly, and Simon ReichClick here

  • Who Elected the Bankers?

By Louis W. Pauly. Click here

  • Opening Financial Markets

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Awards & recognition

  • Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto, Long Service Award, 2022.
  • Distinguished Professor Award, University of Toronto, April 2017.
  • Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto, Administrative Service Award, 2017.
  • Distinguished Scholar Award in International Political Economy, International Studies Association, 2015.
  • Karl W. Deutsch Professor, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, 2013-14.
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2011.
  • President’s Award for Distinguished Service as Director of the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, July 2011. 
  • Halbert Visiting Professor, Department of International Relations, Hebrew University, Spring 2009.
  • Convocation Speaker, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, June 13, 2008.
  • Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, Centre for International Studies, and University College, University of Oxford, 2006-7.
  • Inaugural Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, 2005.
  • Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto, 2004. 
  • Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), Government of Canada, 2002-2016 (maximum term).
  • Dean's Annual Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto, 25 times.
  • Fellow, Trinity College in the University of Toronto, July 2002.
  • International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, 1988-89.
  • Cornell Nominee, Helen Dwight Reid Dissertation Award, American Political Science Association, 1987.