Dr. Sinan Chu

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.

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.

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.

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

Global IR Research Methodology, University of Rostock, Rostock Organisers: Institut für Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaften, Universität Rostock Dr. Sinan Chu (Speaker)

This presentation proposes “intra-cultural/civilizational interlocution” – a candid, self-critical conversation among different identities intersecting within the same human collective – to disrupt the homogenizing logic of the national Self and pluralize our understanding of world politics.

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

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