Regine's research focuses on comparative public policy governance, broadly situated in interpretive and critical policy analysis, inspired by constructivist political sociology, science and technology studies, as well as cultural political economy. She explores how ideas, material structures, and power relations co-shape policy and regulation. Her empirical expertise is in migration and mobility governance, risk analysis and risk regulation, and the governance of and with artificial intelligence technologies. 

Regine is currently working on the monograph "The Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence" (with Daniel Mügge/Vali Stan @UvA, fc 2025) and on a series of papers on interaction and learning processes in Norway's "responsible AI" regulatory sandbox (with Heidrun Åm @NTNU).

She is also Editor of Critical Policy Studies, the 2021 Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration (short promotional video here) and the 2024 Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence (see open access introduction). She also published the monographs Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations. Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe (short intro here) and The Political Economy of Border-Drawing which explains variation in labour migration governance in Europe.

Regine has designed and is course responsible for the MA level electives The Politics and Governance of Migration and AI for Good? The Global Governance and Politics of Technology. She has also been responsible for MA level courses in Research Design and International Organisations and the European Union (GOV 107) at the BA level, where we introduced project-based learning in 2022. Regine's teaching portfolio also covers policy analysis, decolonial political economy, qualitative and comparative methods. She is happy to supervise BA and MA theses in any of these broad areas of expertise.

Regine advises the following PhD candidates:

• Sjoerd de Winter (UiB) working on Norway-EU relations and policymaking (main adviser)
• Synne Augestad Lysberg (UiB) working on policy instrumentation in higher education (co-adviser)
• Dorothea Biaback Anong (Humboldt Universität Berlin) working on free movement and mobility regimes in the EU, ECOWAS and Mercosur (co-adviser)
• Nicholas Henkel (Universität Kassel) working on refugee migration policy reforms in Germany and Hungary (co-adviser)

Regine was part of a working group to design the Department's English-speaking MA program The Politics and Governance of Global Challenges around a student-centered project-based learning approach (2021-2022). The program came to attract the highest applicants-student places-ratio at the whole university in 2023 and 2024.

In 2022, Regine was awarded the status as "Excellent Teacher" by the Social Sciences Faculty.

From 2025-2028, Regine will lead an NFR-funded UTFORSK project on "A global classroom for global challenges" (with Lise Rakner and Martina Vukasovic) focusing on decolonial teaching/curricula/course development and student mobilities with partners in Brazil, Canada, South Africa and the United States.

2024

• Paul, Regine (2024). The politics of regulating AI technologies: towards AI competition states. (ekstern lenke)
• de Freitas Boullosa, Rosana; Paul, Regine; Smith-Carrier, Tracy (2024). Fifteen years of Critical Policy Studies: achievements, challenges, and the tensions of growth. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Carmel, Emma; Cobbe, Jennifer (2024). Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Carmel, Emma; Cobbe, Jennifer (2024). Introduction to the Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence: Vantage Points for Critical Inquiry. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Rosana, Boullosa; Smith-Carrier, Tracy (2024). With or without X: can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires?. (ekstern lenke)

2023

• de Freitas Boullosa, Rosana; Paul, Regine; Smith-Carrier, Tracy (2023). Democratizing science is an urgent, collective, and continuous project: expanding the boundaries of critical policy studies. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2023). European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk-based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market. (ekstern lenke)

2022

• Dodge, Jennifer; Elgert, Laureen; Paul, Regine (2022). On the social relevance of Critical Policy Studies in times of turmoil. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2022). Can critical policy studies outsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy. (ekstern lenke)
• Rothstein, Henry; Demeritt, David; Paul, Regine et al. (2022). True to Type? How Governance Traditions Shaped Responses to Covid-19 in China, Germany, UK, and USA. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2022). The Comparative Politics of Migration Governance in Europe. (ekstern lenke)

2021

• Paul, Regine (2021). Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations: Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Carmel, Emma; Lenner, Katharina (2021). Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Carmel, Emma; Lenner, Katharina (2021). The governance and politics of migration: a conceptual-analytical map. (ekstern lenke)

2020

• Paul, Regine (2020). Analyse and rule? A conceptual framework for explaining the variable appeals of ex-ante evaluation in policymaking. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Borraz, Olivier; et., al (2020). Why regulators assess risk differently: Regulatory style, business organization, and the varied practice of risk-based food safety inspections across the EU. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Rothstein, Henry; Demeritt, David (2020). The boundary conditions for regulation: Welfare systems, state traditions & the varied governance of work safety in Europe. (ekstern lenke)

2019

• Paul, Regine (2019). The political ordering of migrant workers: Comparative governance analysis of European labour migration policies. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Rothstein, Henry; Demeritt, David et al. (2019). Varieties of risk regulation in Europe: coordination, complementarity & occupational safety in capitalist welfare states. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Roos, Christof (2019). Towards a new ontology of crisis? Resilience in EU Migration governance?. (ekstern lenke)

2017

• Paul, Regine (2017). Harmonization by risk analysis? Frontex and the risk-based governance of European border control. (ekstern lenke)

2016

• Paul, Regine; Bouder, Frederic Emmanuel; Wesseling, Mara (2016). Risk-based governance against national obstacles? Comparative dynamics of Europeanization in Dutch, French, and German flooding policies. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2016). Negotiating varieties of capitalism? Crisis and change in contemporary British and German labor migration policies. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2016). Against all odds? Explaining the diffusion of risk-based regulation in Germany’s federal system. (ekstern lenke)

2015

• Paul, Regine (2015). Risk-based regulation in continental Europe? Explaining the corporatist turn to risk in German work safety policies. (ekstern lenke)

2013

• Paul, Regine; Carmel, Emma (2013). Migration, mobility and rights regulation in the EU. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine (2013). Strategic contextualisation: free movement, labour migration policies and the governance of foreign workers in Europe. (ekstern lenke)
• Paul, Regine; Carmel, Emma (2013). Complex stratification: Understanding European Union governance of migrant rights. (ekstern lenke)

2012

• Paul, Regine (2012). Limits of the competition state: The cultural political economy of European labour migration policies. (ekstern lenke)

Se en full oversikt over publikasjoner i Cristin

(only publications since 2015 listed here, for more details see my researchgate account)

 

Monographies

2025/fc: The Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence. Newcastle on Tyne: Agenda Publishing (Series 'Comparative Political Economy'), with Daniel Mügge and Vali Stan

2021: Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administration. Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe. London: Routledge (Series ‘Studies in Governance and Public Policy’)  

2015: The Political Economy of Border Drawing. Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies. Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books (paperback edition published in 2019)

 

Edited volumes

2024: Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (with Emma Carmel and Jennifer Cobbe)

2021: Handbook of the Governance and Politics of Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (with Emma Carmel and Katharina Lenner)

2017: Society, Regulation and Governance: New Modes of Social Change?, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (with Marc Mölders, Alfons Bora, Michael Huber and Peter Münte)

 

Peer-reviewed articles

2024: ‘European Artificial Intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: The risk-based fashioning of a competitive common AI market’, Regulation & Governance, 18(4), 1065-1082.

2022: 'Can Critical Policy Studies outsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy', Critical Policy Studies 16(4), 497-509

2022: 'Peace and prosperity for the digital age? The colonial political economy of European AI governance', IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 41(2), with Emma Carmel

2022: ‘Why regulators assess risk differently: Regulatory style, business organization, and the varied practice of risk-based food safety inspections across the EU’, Regulation & Governance 16(1), 274-292, with Olivier Borraz et al., doi: 10.1111/rego.12320

2020: ‘Analyse and rule? A conceptual framework for explaining the variable appeals of ex-ante evaluation in policymaking’, der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management 13(1), 124-142. doi: 10.3224/dms.v13i1.11

2020: ‘The boundary conditions for regulation: Welfare systems, state traditions & the varied governance of work safety in Europe’, Governance (part of a special issue ‘Varieties of regulatory capitalism’, edited by M. Guidi, I. Guardiancich and D. Levi-Faur),  with Henry Rothstein and David Demeritt

2019: ‘Towards a new ontology of crisis? Resilience in EU Migration governance?’, European Security , 28(4): 393-412, with Christof Roos

2019: ‘Varieties of risk regulation in Europe: coordination, complementarity & occupational safety in capitalist welfare states’, Socio-Economic Review , 17(4): 393-412, with Henry Rothstein et al.

2017: ‘Harmonization by risk analysis? Frontex and the risk-based governance of European border control.’ Journal of European Integration , 39(6): 689-706.

2016: ‘Negotiating varieties of capitalism? Crisis and change in contemporary British and German labor migration policies.’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , 42(10), 1631-1650.

2016: ‘Risk-based governance against national obstacles? Comparative dynamics of Europeanization in Dutch, French and German flooding policies.’ Journal of Risk Research , 19(8): 1043-1062, with Fréderic Bouder and Mara Wesseling.

 

Book chapters

2025/fc: Frontex risk analysis and the crisis-driven expansion of coordinated European border control’, in Weinar, A., Zhyznomirska, L., Cleton, L. and N. Irastorza (eds.): Handbook on the Politics of Migration in Europe, London: Routledge.

2024: ‘Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence: Vantage Points for Critical Inquiry (Introduction to the Handbook)’, in R. Paul, E. Carmel, and J. Cobbe (eds), Handbook of Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence, Cheltenham Spa.

2024: ‘The Politics of Regulating Artificial Intelligence Technologies: Towards AI Competition States’, in R. Paul, E. Carmel, and J. Cobbe (eds), Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence, Cheltenham Spa: Edward Elgar Publishing.

2022: ‘True to type? How governance traditions shaped responses to Covid-19 in China, Germany, UK and USA’, in Brown, P. and J. Zinn (Hrsg.) COVID-19 – From the perspective of the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty, London: Routledge, pp. 115-143, with Henry Rothstein, David Demeritt und Li Wang.

2022: ‘The comparative politics of migration governance in Europe.’ Anghel, Veronica and E. Jones (eds.) Developments in European Politics III, London: Bloomsbury, pp. 137-150.

2021: ‘The governance and politics of international migration: A conceptual-analytical map.’ Carmel, E., Lenner, K. and R. Paul (eds.) Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, with Emma Carmel and Katharina Lenner.

2019: ‘The political ordering of migrant workers: Comparative governance analysis of European labour migration policies’. Carmel, E. (ed.): Governance Analysis: A New Approach to Politics, Policy and Practice, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 93-111.

2018: ‘How ‘low-skilled’ migrant workers are made: border-drawing in migration policy’, Rijken, C. and T. de Lange (eds. ) Towards a Decent Labour Market for Low Waged Migrant Workers, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 57-78.

2018: ‘Risk as a governance tool in European border control’, Weinar, A., Bonjour, S., and L. Zhyznomirska (eds.): Handbook on the Politics of Migration in Europe, London: Routledge, p. 227-238.

2017: ‘Shaping society: New modes of social change in regulation and governance? An introduction.’ Paul, R., Mölders, M., Bora, A., Huber, M. and P. Münte (eds.) Society, Regulation and Governance: New Modes of Social Change?, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, with Marc Mölders, p. 1-12.

2017: ‘Risk: new issue or new tool in regulation and governance research?’ Paul, R., Mölders, M., Bora, A., Huber, M. and P. Münte (eds.) Society, Regulation and Governance: New Modes of Social Change?, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 59-74.

 

Encyclopedia Entries

2025/fc: ‘Artificial intelligence’, in Wilson, G. and M. Maguire (eds.): Elgar Encyclopaedia of Business and Government, Cheltenham Spa: Edward Elgar.

2025/fc: ‘Artificial intelligence technologies and (the) international political economy’, in van Appeldoorn, B. and N. de Graaf (eds.): Encyclopaedia of International Political Economy, Cheltenham Spa: Edward Elgar, with Daniel Mügge.