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Dr. Sinan Chu

Research Fellow

Dr. Sinan Chu

  • Kurzer Lebenslauf

    • 01/2025 - present: Principal investigator, DFG project “Intellectual Contestation over China’s Multiethnic Regime”
    • 10/2022 - present: Editor of Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
    • 05/2022 - 07/2022: Visiting Fellow at Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China,” Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • 12/2018 - 12/2022: Researcher, DFG project "Legitimate Multipolarity" and Leibniz project “Drifting Apart: International Institutions in Crisis and the Management of Dissociation Processes”
    • 05/2019: PhD in Political Science, Department of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York, USA; Subfield: Comparative Politics, International Relations
    • 08/2016 - 11/2018: Visiting Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies; Funding: Konrad Adenauer Foundation
    • 12/2010: M.A. in Political Science & International Relations (dual-degree), Department of Political Science & Department of International Relations, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York, USA
    • 06/2007: B.A. in International Politics, Department of Politics and Public Administration, College of Public Management, Nanjing University, Jiangsu Province, PRC 
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    Aktuelle Forschung

    • Legitimacy in global governance

    • Science, experts, and politics

    • Nationalism and ethnicity in China

    • Global IR

    Länder und Regionen

    • China

    • East Asia

    Dr. Sinan Chu

    Research Fellow

    T. +49 (40) 428874-29[email protected]

    Highlights

    In the Eyes of the Beholders: The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions under Multipolarity

    International Studies Quarterly | 04.2024

    In the Eyes of the Beholders: The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions under Multipolarity

    We investigate how global publics evaluate the legitimacy of two GGIs—the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Group of Twenty (G20)—and multipolarity’s role in those evaluations.

    Dr. Sinan Chu

    Prof. Dr. Heike Holbig

    Prof. Dr. Amrita Narlikar

    Dr. Johannes Plagemann

    Fantastic Theories and Where to Find Them: Rethinking Interlocutors in Global IR

    Millennium: Journal of International Studies | 2023

    Fantastic Theories and Where to Find Them: Rethinking Interlocutors in Global IR

    This article explores an alternative approach to engaging with non-Western IR theories, which the author refers to as the embedded observer approach.

    Dr. Sinan Chu

    Research Fellow

    Whither Chinese IR? The Sinocentric Subject and the Paradox of Tianxia-ism

    International Theory | 03.2022

    Whither Chinese IR? The Sinocentric Subject and the Paradox of Tianxia-ism

    This essay critically assesses the Tianxia Theories, a line of indigenous International Relations (IR) theorizing in China organized around the concept of Tianxia (‘all-under-heaven’).

    Dr. Sinan Chu

    Research Fellow

    Publikationen

    Eterotopie | 2025

    Che cento fiori sboccino: il dibattito sulla politica etnica della Cina fra il 2004 e il 2015

    This essay explores the social context anticipating the intensified effort to assimilate China’s vast ethnic minority population under Xi Jinping by tracing the debate among prominent university professors, government-affiliated researchers, and high-ranking officials over China’s ethnic policy between 2004 and 2015.

    Dr. Sinan Chu

    Research Fellow

    Kapitel in Sammelband | 05.2024

    Nichtwestliche Perspektiven in den Internationalen Beziehungen

    Wie sollten wir durch die Beschäftigung mit Erfahrungen und Perspektiven aus dem Nichtwesten über die Mainstream- bzw. disziplinären Internationale Beziehungen hinausgehen? Der vorliegende Aufsatz untersucht die wichtigsten Forschungsprojekte der letzten beiden Jahrzehnte, die sich auf die Untersuchung „nichtwestlicher IB“ beziehen.

    Dr. Sinan Chu

    Research Fellow

    International Studies Quarterly | 04.2024

    In the Eyes of the Beholders: The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions under Multipolarity

    We investigate how global publics evaluate the legitimacy of two GGIs—the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Group of Twenty (G20)—and multipolarity’s role in those evaluations.

    Dr. Sinan Chu

    Prof. Dr. Heike Holbig

    Prof. Dr. Amrita Narlikar

    Dr. Johannes Plagemann

    Millennium: Journal of International Studies | 2023

    Fantastic Theories and Where to Find Them: Rethinking Interlocutors in Global IR

    This article explores an alternative approach to engaging with non-Western IR theories, which the author refers to as the embedded observer approach.

    Dr. Sinan Chu

    Research Fellow

    International Theory | 03.2022

    Whither Chinese IR? The Sinocentric Subject and the Paradox of Tianxia-ism

    This essay critically assesses the Tianxia Theories, a line of indigenous International Relations (IR) theorizing in China organized around the concept of Tianxia (‘all-under-heaven’).

    Dr. Sinan Chu

    Research Fellow

    Forschungsprojekte

    Forschungsprojekt | 01.01.2025 - 31.12.2027

    Intellectual Contestation over China’s Multiethnic Regime

    This project will critically examine the societal discourse surrounding ethnic politics in mainland China, focusing on how intellectuals utilized various philosophical, theoretical, and cultural resources while adapting, appropriating, and rearticulating ideas to engage with the subject. It will shed light on the critical-mindedness and agency of contemporary Chinese intellectuals and enhance our understanding of intellectual praxis and knowledge production in a non-Western context.
    DFG, 2025-2027

    Forschungsprojekt | 01.04.2019 - 31.12.2021

    Drifting Apart: International Institutions in Crisis and the Management of Dissociation Processes (DRIFTS)

    Brexit, US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement under President Trump and the demise of security cooperation between Russia and the West are reminders that international cooperation is fragile. States dissociate themselves from international institutions – either by formally withdrawing their membership, by ignoring their commitments or by creating alternative institutions. The DRIFTS project, coordinated by HSFK, explores the tensions between states that result from these dissociation processes.
    Leibniz Association, 2019-2021

    Forschungsprojekt | 01.12.2018 - 31.03.2022

    Legitimate Multipolarity

    Global governance institutions work differently under conditions of multipolarity. In a first step, in this project we investigate the legitimacy deficits of global governance institutions under conditions of multipolarity. In a second step, we analyse possible solutions to such problems put forward in rising powers’ foreign policy discourses. Legitimate Multipolarity adopts an empirical approach to the study of legitimacy and contributes to a global understanding of multilateralism’s merits, pitfalls – and prospects for reform.
    DFG, 2018-2022

    Vorträge

    German Institute for Global and Area Studies | 05.03.2025

    ISA Annual Convention 2025

    Organisation: German Institute for Global and Area Studies Dr. Sinan Chu (Chair)

    Chair on Panel: "Relational Thinking in International Politics: Towards a Global Comparative History"

    Dr. Sinan Chu

    Research Fellow

    Konferenz | 02.03.2025 - 05.03.2025

    ISA Annual Convention 2025

    ISA Annual Convention 2025, Chicago Organisation: International Studies Association Dr. Sinan Chu (Panelbeitragende:r)

    Participant on Roundtable: "Teaching China's International Relations: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities"

    Dr. Sinan Chu

    Research Fellow

    Konferenz | 02.03.2025 - 05.03.2025

    ISA Annual Convention 2025

    ISA Annual Convention 2025, Chicago Organisation: International Studies Association Dr. Sinan Chu (Panelbeitragende:r)

    Participant on Roundtable: "Voices from the Global South: Perspectives on the Evolving Global Order and International Relations Theory"

    Dr. Sinan Chu

    Research Fellow

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