Research
Title of Research:
China and ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative: A Post-Structuralist Reading
Brief overview of research topic:
My PhD thesis focuses on China’s mega-project – the Belt and Road Initiative from a post-structuralist perspective. It interrogates the underlying assumptions, discursive performance, and constitutive effects that make possible the articulation and final acceptance of BRI as a global initiative for economic governance.
My research interests include International Relations Theory, International Security, Foreign Policy Analysis, and the International Politics of Asia-Pacific.
Conferences
2019 Speaker – 2009 York Asian Research Network Annual Conference, York, England
Title: Beyond Rationality: China and Its ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative
2019 Speaker and Co-organiser – Global Futures: China as a European Power (Pushing the Boundary Workshop Series). York, England
Title: Europe: a BRI-Taker or BRI-Shaper
2018 Speaker – 7th UIBE International Affairs Summer Forum: The Global Significance and Practical Implications of Building a New Model of International Relations. Beijing, China
Title: How New is China’s New Type of International Relations?
2018 Speaker – 4th China and The Middle East Conference – China and West Asia: Economic Development, and Social and Political Cooperation. Nevsehir, Turkey
Title: Beyond Rationality: China and ‘One Belt, One Road’
2018 Discussant – Renmin University of China (RUC) – The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Think Tank Summit: “The Belt and Road” Green Development. Beijing, China
