Thomas Kalinowski
Ewha Womans University (South Korea)
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Biography
Thomas Kalinowski is a professor of political science at the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. He received his doctoral degree in political science at the Free University of Berlin in 2004. At Ewha he teaches Global Political Economy, International Organizations, International Environmental Governance, Sustainable Development, and Development Cooperation. Recent publications include Works on the political economy of financial crisis and crisis management, sustainable governance, the political economy of climate change, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), sustainable governance, the diversity of capitalism and the transformation of the East Asian developmental state. His latest book “Why International Cooperation is Failing: How the Clash of Capitalisms Undermines the Regulation of Finance” has been published as a paperback by Oxford University Press in 2022. His latest article on the “Green Climate Fund and Private Climate Finance” has just been published in Climate Policy.
Background and education
- (2004) PhD, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Research
Research interests
- International Political Economy
- Sustainable Development
- Climate Finance
- Green Industrial Policies
- Green Climate Fund
Research projects
Green Industrial Policies in South Korea and China
Private Sector Climate Finance and the Green Climate Fund
Selected publications
- 2024.National Growth Models and Global Capitalism: a Critique of Comparative Political Economy.Asian International Studies Review,2024 (2)Link
- 2024.The Green Climate Fund and private sector climate finance in the Global South.Climate Policy,2024(3)Link
- 2022.Why International Cooperation is Failing: How the Clash of Capitalisms Undermines the Regulation of Finance.Oxford University Press, Paperback, ISBN: 9780192871442.Link
- 2021.The politics of climate change in a neo-developmental state. The case of South Korea.International Political Science Review,42 (1)Link