Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente is a university lecturer at Leiden University. Ruben's research interests include South-South development cooperation, China's international relations (with a specific interest on China's engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean), the role of natural resources in processes of development, and the transformation of politics and international relations under late capitalism. Ruben got his PhD from Cambridge in 2012, and worked as an assistant professor in City University of Hong Kong between 2012 and 2016 before moving to Leiden.
Experience
2017–present
University Lecturer, Leiden University
2012–2016
Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Education
2012
University of Cambridge, PhD
Publications
2017
The empire strikes back? China’s new racial sovereignty, Political Geography
2015
The limits to China's non-interference foreign policy: Pro-state interventionism and the rescaling of economic governance, Australian Journal of International Affairs
2013
Development dynamics of Chinese resource-based investment in Peru and Ecuador, Latin American Politics and Society
2012
The political economy of Sino-Peruvian relations: A new dependency?’, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
2012
Mapping Chinese mining investment in Latin America: Politics or market?, The China Quarterly
2011
The internationalization of the Chinese state, Political Geography
2011
China’s engagement in South America and Africa’s extractive sectors: New perspectives for resource curse theories, The Pacific Review