Curriculum Vitae - Tim Nicholas Rühlig

Tim Rühlig joined the department of „International Organizations“ (Prof. Christopher Daase) at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and the Cluster of Excellence „The formation of normative orders“ in 2013. Since November 2014, Tim holds a scholarship by the Foundation "Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft". 2006-2012 he studied political science, historical and cultural anthropology, international relations and peace and conflict research at the universities of Tübingen, Frankfurt and Darmstadt. He finalized his studies with a thesis entitled „In Search of a Good Political Order for the Chinese Century. Comparing the Governments’ with Chinese Netizens’ Perspectives“. Tim currently works on questions of world order out of Chinese perspectives.

From April till December 2015, Tim was a visiting research fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Relations (UI) and the Institute of China Studies at the University of Stockholm. From May until October 2016, Tim is a again a visiting research fellow at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. Additionally, in 2016 Tim will be involved in a research project on the impact of Western economists on Chinese economic and financial policies funded by the Swedish Research Council.

2007-2012 Tim held a scholarship by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. In 2011 he initiated and organized the your researchers’ conference „Liberalism: Causing or Resolving the Crises of Global Governance?“. One year before, he was administratively involved in the DVPW conference „International Political Theory“. 2005-2006 he lived and worked in a Kibbutz close to Tel Aviv/Israel. 2009-2011 Tim was a student research assistant at the Chair of international relations and theories of global orders (Prof. Nicole Deitelhoff).  Furthermore, he worked for about five months at AVO Carbon’s quality management.

In his leisure time, Tim volunteers for the Margit-Horváth foundation and campaigns for the preservation of NS-victims’ graves on German cemeteries. Since 2012 Tim regularely writes for the German „Bretterblog“.

Research Interests

  • Global order
  • Legitimacy and global governance
  • State and sovereignty in world affairs
  • People’s Republic of China
  • Internet’s impact on political discussions and dynamics
  • International relations and popular culture

Tim writes his PhD about importance and meaning of the state for the world order out of Chinese perspectives. In this regard he compares the actions and justifications brought forward by the People’s Republic of China in three case studies (Responsibility to Protect, "One country, two systems" in Hong Kong, World Trade Organization). In a second step he relates his findings to more general Chinese discussions on principles of a good political order.