Expertise

Chinese politics and political economy; urban and regional development; intergovernmental relations; sub-national diplomacy; US-China relations

At the Keough School

Kyle A. Jaros is associate professor of global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He is a faculty fellow of the Keough School’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studiesand Pulte Institute for Global Development.

Courses

• The Political Economy of East Asian Development (undergraduate course)
• Cities, States and Global Governance (undergraduate course and elective for master of global affairs)
• East Asia’s Global Cities (elective for undergraduate program in Asian studies)
• Connecting Asia (core course for undergraduate program in Asian studies)
• Research Design for Governance and Policy (required course for governance and policy concentration, master of global affairs)

Research and Publications

Jaros’s research explores the politics of urban and regional development, intergovernmental relations, and subnational foreign engagement with a focus on China. His first book, China’s Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development (Princeton University Press, 2019) examines the policy logics and political factors driving uneven development in China’s provinces.

Jaros’s research on China’s subnational development and central-local relations has appeared in leading China studies and social science journals such as The China Journal, The China Quarterly, Modern China, Politics & Society, and Studies in Comparative International Development. Jaros is currently at work on a second book project and related articles (with Sara Newland) examining subnational US-China relations during a period of rising tensions. He is a fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program and a former Wilson China Fellow (2022-23). Jaros is also a member of the editorial boards of Urban Affairs Review and Studies in Comparative International Development.

Biography

Jaros holds a concurrent appointment in Notre Dame’s Department of Political Science. Before coming to Notre Dame, he was associate professor in the political economy of China at the University of Oxford’s School of Global and Area Studies and held a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Ash Center of the Harvard Kennedy School. Jaros earned a PhD and MA in political science from the Department of Government at Harvard University, and an AB in public and international affairs and a certificate in Chinese language and culture from Princeton University. He also holds a graduate certificate in Chinese studies from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies.

In the Media

• Kyle Jaros on the Role of of Subnational Relations in US-China Relations (The US-China Perception Monitor)
• Chinese grieve popular ex-premier Li Keqiang in quiet show of dissent (BBC News)
• California governor’s trip shows US-China engagement is still possible on a state level (The Washington Post)
• A rural Michigan town is the latest battleground in the US-China fight (The New York Times)
• They Courted Chinese Investment. Now They’re Running for President (Real Clear Politics)
• Federal anti-China sentiment is increasingly seeping into state laws (The Hill)
• Rokita, Desantis-type comments on Chinese influence are politics. We need policy. (Indianapolis Star)
• China’s year of crackdowns: Party first, business second (Al Jazeera)

News

• Notre Dame experts consider the recent attention toward Taiwan and its impact on US-China relations (Notre Dame News)