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 National University of Singapore. His research interests include international relations theories, foreign policy analysis, Chinese foreign policy and East Asian security.

Awards and honors
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2017
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  • 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

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Publications

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” intoOne 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. (Link)