Publications

Books

Taylor, Monique. China’s Digital Authoritarianism: A Governance Perspective. Politics and Development of Contemporary China Series, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Available via Springer | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11252-2 | Amazon

Taylor, Monique. The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security. International Political Economy Series, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Available via Springer | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137350558 | Amazon

Peer-reviewed articles

Taylor, Monique. ‘Rethinking China’s Renminbi Strategy in a Fragmenting Global Economy.’ East Asia Forum, 26 May 2025.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59425/eabc.1748296800

Taylor, Monique. ‘Challenging Dollar Dominance? The Geopolitical Dimensions of Renminbi (RMB) Internationalisation.’ Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (2025).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/18681026251342258

Taylor, Monique and Jeremy Garlick. ‘Flexible’ versus ‘fragmented’ authoritarianism: Evidence from Chinese foreign policy during the Xi Jinping era.’ Australian Journal of International Affairs 79, no.2 (2024): 189-208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2024.2437035

Taylor, Monique. ‘The Petroyuan’s Challenge to Dollar Hegemony.’ Global China Pulse 3, no. 1 (2024): 133-140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.69131/GCP.03.01.2024.11

Taylor, Monique. ‘The Digital Yuan: Purpose, Progress, and Politics.’ Made in China Journal 9, no.1 (2024): 68-73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22459/MIC.09.01.2024.08

Taylor, Monique. ‘From Alipay to the Digital Yuan: China’s Fintech Revolution.’ Asia Paper November (2023): 1-44.

Taylor, Monique. ‘China’s Evolving Energy Security Strategy.’ Asian Affairs 52, no.4 (2021): 890-913.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2021.2004031

Taylor, Monique. ‘Fuelling China’s Rise: Building Oil State Capacity.’ China: An International Journal 16, no.1 (2018): 107-128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/chn.2018.0005

Allison, Laura and Monique Taylor. ‘ASEAN’s ‘People-Oriented’ Aspirations: Civil Society Influences on Non-Traditional Security Governance.’ Australian Journal of International Affairs 71, no.1 (2017): 24-41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2015.1135870

Stark, Alastair and Monique Taylor. ‘Citizen Participation, Community Resilience and Crisis Management Policy.’ Australian Journal of Political Science 49, no.2 (2014): 300-315.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2014.899966

Taylor, Monique. ‘‘The Society of States Under Siege?’ An English School Perspective on the Emergence of Global Civil Society.’ Australasian Journal of Human Security 1, no.3 (2005): 5-25.

Book chapters

Taylor, Monique. ‘The Global Dissemination of The Global Dissemination of Surveillance Technologies that Enable Repression.’ In M. Hasan and A. E. Ruud (Eds) The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: The Transnational Repression of Dissidents in Exile. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, (accepted).

Taylor, Monique. ‘Energy Security.’ In C. Tubilewicz (Ed) Critical Issues in Contemporary China: Unity, Stability and Development. (second edition) London, UK: Routledge, 2017: 81-104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315689050

Taylor, Monique. ‘China’s Oil Industry: Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics.’ In Xu Yi-Chong (Ed) The Political Economy of State-Owned Enterprises in China and India. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012: 69-94.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137271655_4

Policy briefs and op-eds

Taylor, Monique. ‘Understanding China’s Renminbi Strategy: Strategic Integration over Monetary Supremacy.’ Australian Outlook, June 20, 2025.

Taylor, Monique and Jeremy Garlick. ‘Beyond Fragmentation: How Xi’s China Implements Foreign Policy.’ Australian Outlook, April 22, 2025.

Taylor, Monique. ‘AUKUS, Advanced Capabilities and Defense Integration in the Indo-Pacific.’ Issue & Policy Briefs, ISDP, Stockholm: Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, July 25, 2023.

Taylor, Monique. ‘The Return of War to Europe: A View from Finland.’ Korea on Point, (2022), Sejong Institute, Seoul.

Taylor, Monique. ‘A BRICS Approach to Energy Cooperation: Implications for Global Energy Governance.’ ESI Policy Brief No.24 (2018), Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore.

Taylor, Monique. ‘Seeking the Upper Hand or Shaking Hands?’ China, India and Energy.’ China-India Brief No.58 (2015), Centre on Asia and Globalization, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

Taylor, Monique. ‘Improving Energy Security in East Asia: Prospects for Energy Cooperation.’ Regional Outlook, Griffith University, 31 (2011), 30-33.

Interviews and media mentions

Suutarinen, J. TikTok on valtava riski ja länsimaat naiiveja – Näin Kiina käyttää digitaalista valtaa sotilasmahtinsa kasvatukseen. (Interview with Monique Taylor), Kauppalehti, 8 February 2023.

Haikala, T. Kinan Digilonkerot. (Interview with Monique Taylor), Yliopisto-lehti, Issue 10, 16 December 2022, p.16.

Drdlova, H. Interview: Monique Taylor. Global Politics and Communication, University of Helsinki, 7 April, 2022.

Eriksson, J. ‘Kina pressar Australien – kommer landet att ge efter för sanktionerna?’ (Interview with Monique Taylor), Arbetarbladet, 5 February 2021.

‘You Can’t Avoid Theory: Interview with Dr Monique Taylor.’ Young Journal of European Affairs, 15 October 2020.

Haq, M. ‘China Pivots to Old Ally Pakistan for Coal After Australia Spat.’ Nikkei Asia, 19 August 2020.

Book reviews

Taylor, Monique. ‘Review: Clive Gray, The Politics of Museums.’ Political Studies Review 16:1 (2018): NP72-NP72.

Taylor, Monique. ‘Fioretos, Oreo, Falleti, Tulia G. and Adam Sheingate (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism, 2016.’ Political Studies Review 15:3 (2017): 476-477.

Taylor, Monique. ‘Keith Baker and Gerry Stoker, Nuclear Power and Energy Policy: The Limits to Governance, 2015.’ Political Studies Review 15:2 (2017): 291

Taylor, Monique. ‘Steffen Hertog, Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia, 2010 and Miriam R. Lowi, Oil Wealth and the Poverty of Politics: Algeria Compared, 2010.’ Political Studies Review 9:3 (2011): 442-443.

Taylor, Monique. ‘Julia C. Strauss and Martha Saavedra (eds), China and Africa: Emerging Patterns in Globalisation and Development, 2009.’ Political Studies Review 9:2 (2011): 295.

Taylor, Monique. ‘Edward Lucas, The New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West, 2009.’ Australian Journal of International Affairs 64:4 (2010): 491-493.

Taylor, Monique. ‘David Shambaugh, China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation, 2008, and Minxin Pei, China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy, 2006 (review essay).’ Australian Journal of International Affairs 63:1 (2009): 144-147.

Reviews of my work

Kalashyan, V. ‘Review: Taylor, Monique. 2022. China’s Digital Authoritarianism.’ Journal of Political Science: Bulletin of Yerevan University. 2:4 (2023): 158-162.

Laine, M. ‘Review: China’s changing vision of the internet from threat to be managed to indispensable tool of governance and societal control.’ Global Politics and Communication Programme Researcher News, 19 December 2022.

Andrews-Speed, P. ‘Review: Monique Taylor, The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security.’ The China Quarterly, 222 (2015): 547-548.

Handke, S. ‘Review Essay: By All Means Necessary: How China’s Resource Quest Is Changing the World, China’s Foreign Policy and The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security.’ China Information, 29:3 (2015): 397-400.

Shiralizade, H. ‘Review: Monique Taylor, The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security.’ Uluslararası Hukuk ve Politika (Review of International Law and Politics), 11 (2015): 189-193.

Theses

Doctoral Thesis: Fuelling China’s Rise: Building Oil State Capacity. (2012) University of Queensland, Australia. Main supervisor:: Professor Stephen Bell, second supervisor: Associate Professor David Martin Jones.

Master’s Thesis: (De)Constructing the English School. (2004) University of Auckland, New Zealand. Supervisor: Professor Jacqui True.

— Monique Taylor, University of Helsinki