Stephen Noakes

Stephen Noakes is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Auckland.

His research has appeared in journals such China Quarterly, Pacific Affairs, Voluntas, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Problems of Postcommunism, Political Science Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is also the author of The Advocacy Trap: Transnational Activism and State Power in China (Manchester University Press, 2017), a regular commentator on China's role in international affairs, and a frequent advisor to the aid community on governance issues in the PRC.

Prior to joining the University of Auckland, he was an SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, and a Visiting Research Scholar at Fudan University’s School of International Relations and Public Affairs in Shanghai. In 2018, he will be a visiting NZ-China Fellow at the School of International Studies at Peking University.