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Angelo Kruger

Angelo Kruger

PhD Researcher International Relations and Political Science
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Spoken languages
German, English, French

PhD Thesis


Provisional PhD Thesis Title: How do traditional lenders react to Chinese investment? An analysis of cooperation, competition, and its effects on recipient countries.

PhD Supervisor: Cédric Dupont
 

PROFILE
 

Angelo Kruger is a PhD Researcher in International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva. His research interests lie in the international political economy of investment and trade, international organizations, and Chinese overseas finance. Specifically, he is interested in the effects Chinese investment has on existing economic relations between industrialized and developing countries. Angelo holds an MA in International Relations from Central European University (CEU) in Vienna and a BA in History, Politics, and Sociology from the University of Potsdam. Previously, he has completed research visits to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Anderson School of Management and National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taipei, with field research conducted in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and Presevo and Bujanovac, Serbia. Additionally, he completed internships with Oxford Analytica’s North America Desk in New York and the German Federal Parliament in Berlin.
 

Academic Work Experience
 

  • Research Assistant (remote), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 2022 - 2024
  • Research Assistant, University of Potsdam, 2022
  • Research Assistant (remote), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2020; 2021
  • Visiting Student Researcher and Research Assistant (remote), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – Anderson School of Management, 2019 – 2021
     

Other Work Experience
 

  • Oxford Analytica, Intern, New York City, 2022
  • Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Intern, 2021
  • Deutscher Bundestag (German Federal Parliament), Intern, 2018
     

Research Interests
 

  • International Political Economy
  • Foreign Direct Investment and Trade
  • International Organizations
  • Chinese Global Finance
  • International Markets
     

Publications and Works
 

  • Heinzel M. and Kruger, A. (2024). Determinants of AIIB cooperation with legacy institutions [work in progress].
  • Kruger, A. and Strosser, J. (2023). The emergence of geo-economic institutions: Observations on European and Chinese development cooperation in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova 2014 – 2020. Asian Review of Political Economy, 2(1). 1-28.
  • Kruger, A. (2023). Economic integration and its effects on hostile state behavior: Evidence from the China-Taiwan dyad 2003 – 2023. Central European University.
  • Kruger, A. (2021). Cooperation, Not Bartering: Why Germany Needs Better Relations with Taiwan. Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), October 7. (First published in Der Tagesspiegel, 17.8.2021).
     

Fellowships, Grant and Awards

 

  • Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (2023): Fully-funded PhD Package
  • Central European University (2023), Thesis Grant
  • Open Society University Network (2023), Research Grant
  • Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (2022 – 2023), Full Scholarship
  • Central European University (2022), Conference Grant
  • German Academic Exchange Service (2019) Travel Grant
     

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Affiliations
 

  • China in Europe Research Network (CHERN) Working Group 1 Strategic Sectors and Infrastructure Development