Joern Dosch is a professor of International Politics and Development Cooperation at the University of Rostock, Germany. His previous positions include Professor of International Relations and Head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Monash University (Malaysia Campus) and Head of the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds.
His research focuses on Southeast Asian politics and international relations as well as Europe-Asia relations. He has spent extended periods of time in the ASEAN-region since the early 1990s. Joern’s current research projects explore the foreign policies of the individual ASEAN member states and the future of development cooperation in Southeast Asia. Joern also regularly works as a consultant for the European Union’s development programme with Asia and has evaluated several donor-funded projects in support of ASEAN. His recent publications include Malaysia Post-Mahathir. A Decade of Change? Marshall Cavendish 2015 (edited with James Chin) and The ASEAN Economic Community, Nomos 2016 (in German; short version in English).