Index - Assistant Professor

Name

Duan Xiaolin

Title

Assistant Professor

Education Background

Ph.D in Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Research

Chinese foreign policy, nationalism, territorial dispute, foreign policy analysis theories

Personal Website

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Duan-Xiaolin

duanxiaolin@cuhk.edu.cn

Office Address

TxB 1115

Phone

+86 755 23 516558

Teaching Area

International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Chinese Foreign Policy

Other

Biography

Duan Xiaolin is an Assistant Professor in the Global Studies Program at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Before that, he was Assistant Professor in international relations in the Department of Global & Social Studies at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Duan receieved his PhD in Public Policy from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at National University of Singapore. His research interests include international relations theories, foreign policy analysis, Chinese foreign policy and East Asian security.

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Awards and honors

2023
2022
2021
2017

01

2023

The 2023 Excellent Professional Teaching Ethics Award
02

2022

Presidential Exemplary Teaching Award 2022
03

2021

2021 Jimmy Carter Award for Best Paper on Chinese Foreign Policy at the Sixth Annual Young Scholars Forum on U.S.-China Relations
04

2017

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad

Publications

13. Hongzhou Chen, Duan Xiaolin, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Wei Cai. Political leanings in Web3 betting: Decoding the interplay of political and profitable motives. ACM WebSci'25, 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.

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