Wiebke Rabe

Wiebke Rabe is Assistant Professor of International Relations, specializing in the politics of global resources at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen. Her research and teaching focuses on the global distribution of natural resources and related interdependencies and conflicts as well as on international politics of digital data as an economic resource. A special focus lies on the role of China in international affairs and related domestic political processes and interests under central-local relations. Before joining the InIIS, Wiebke was an Assistant Professor at the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, and a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Chinese Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She holds a doctorate in political science from the Hertie School and is author of the book “China’s Provinces Go Global: Internationalization under Guided Autonomy” (2023, Routledge).Her research has appeared in journals such as Energy Policy, the Review of International Political Economy, The China Quarterly and the Journal of Contemporary Asia. Wiebke covers a range of methodological approaches which include fieldwork, surveys and documentary analysis.

Currently

2023–              Assistant Professor of International Relations, specializing in the politics of global resources, Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), University of Bremen, Germany

Previous positions

2022–2023      Assistant Professor for China’s Political Economy and International Relations, Department of China Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

2019–2022      Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Chinese Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

2015–2017      Research Associate, Hertie School, Berlin, Germany

Education

2019                Dr. rer. pol, summa cum laude

2013                M.A. International Relations / Conflict Studies, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

2010                B.A. European Studies, University of Bremen, Germany

Research and studies abroad

Zhejiang University (2017, 2018) | Nanjing University (2016) | Peking University (2011-2012) | China University of Political Science and Law (2012) | University of Groningen (2011) | St Petersburg University (2009-2010)

Research grants and scholarships

Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes | Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung | Haniel Stiftung | Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst | University Alliance for Sustainability