Louis W. Pauly is professor of political science

Political science

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 and Director of the Centre for International Studies, at the Munk Centre for International Studies

Munk Centre for International Studies

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, at the University of Toronto

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. In October 2002, he was awarded a Canada Research Chair.

Biography

Pauly is a graduate of Cornell University

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, the London School of Economics

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, New York University

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, and Fordham University

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. He has held management positions in the Royal Bank of Canada

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 and served on the staff of the International Monetary Fund

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Of his current research projects, one is focused on adaptation and learning within international economic organizations, and another examines the politics of technological innovation in East Asia. He is a team leader in the Major Collaborative Research Initiative of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada on "Globalization and Autonomy," which is directed by William Coleman. He teaches courses in the fields of international political economy

International political economy

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 and international relations

International relations

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Pauly serves on the editorial boards of International Organization

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, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Public Policy, the Review of International Political Economy, and Cambridge Studies in International Relations.

Publications

His publications include various books and co-edited volumes, including:

• Global Liberalism and Political Order: Toward a New Grand Compromise? (2007) ISBN 0791470458
• Complex Sovereignty: Reconstituting Political Authority in the Twenty-First Century (2005) ISBN 0802038816
• Governing the World's Money (2002) ISBN 080144019X
• Democracy beyond the State? The European Dilemma and the Emerging Global Order (2000) ISBN 0847699005
• The Myth of the Global Corporation (998) ISBN 0691010072
• Who Elected the Bankers? Surveillance and Control in the World Economy (1997) ISBN 0801433223
• Choosing to Cooperate: How States Avoid Loss (1993) ISBN 0801846110
• Opening Financial Markets: Banking Politics on the Pacific Rim (Cornell, 1988) ISBN 0801499283