15. Duan Xiaolin, More than Diversion: Economic Turmoil, Foreign-policy Assertiveness, and China's Balance of Risk, Contemporary Security Policy. 2026. 

14, Duan Xiaolin and Hao Yufan, Surprising stability in the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands since 2012. The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2025.

13. Hongzhou Chen, Duan Xiaolin, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Wei Cai. Political leanings in Web3 betting: Decoding the interplay of political and profitable motives. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference. May 2025.

12. Duan Xiaolin. Power transition in process: Explaining the dominant power's failures to prevent the rise of a challenger. International Journal, March 2025. 

11. Duan Xiaolin. Challenging popular narratives: The course of power transition and Sino-U.S. relations. Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2024.

10. Duan Xiaolin. Domestic sources of China's wolf-warrior diplomacy: individual incentive, institutional changes and diversionary strategies. The Pacific Review 2023.

9. Duan Xiaolin. Steering A Middle Course: The Domestic Sources of China’s Rare Earth Strategy. Chinese Journal of International Politics 15, issue 1 (2022): 47-68.
8. Duan Xiaolin and Shafi Aldamer. The Saudi Arabia–China relationship at a crossroad: A neoclassical realist analysis. Asia Politics & Policy 14, issue 1 (2022): 114-12
7. Duan Xiaolin and Song Xining. China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment and its impacts on China’s structural reform. Asia-Europe Journal 20, 2022, pp.15-20.

• 6. Hao Yufan and Duan Xiaolin. Rescaling “Two Systems” into “One Country”: The Illusion of Macao’s Integration with China and the Limits of China’s Functionalist Approach. China: An International Journal 19, no.1 (February 2021): 1-22.
• 5. Duan Xiaolin. Think Territory Politically: The Making and Escalation of Beijing’s Commitment to Sovereignize Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, The Pacific Review 32, no.3 (2019): 419-45.
• 4. Duan Xiaolin. Unanswered Questions: Why we may be wrong about Chinese Nationalism? Journal of Contemporary China 26, no.108 (2017): 866-900.
• 3. Duan Xiaolin. Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Chinese Military Spending, 1980-2013. China: An International Journal 15, no. 3 (August 2017):  77-99.
• 2. Duan Xiaolin. Rediscovering Weberian Bureaucracy: A Systemic Review of the Classical Bureaucracy in Public Administration Theories (重新发现官僚制：西方公共行政理论对官僚制的再思考), Journal of Public Administration (公共行政评论) 5 (2015):129-53 (in Chinese).
• 1. Duan Xiaolin. Do Not Let Tactical Needs Drive Strategy: How to Renew the U.S.'s Drone Warfare on Counterterrorism, The Solutions 2, Issue 5 (March-April 2015): 56-65.