Dr. Sinan Chu

This study examines how global governance institutions led by emerging powers cope with legitimacy challenges under multipolarity through a qualitative case study of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, based on an original dataset of global elite media coverage, expert interviews, and official documents.

I critically examine how three leading Chinese IR theories—Moral Realism, Relational Theory, and Tianxia System—relate to the concept of ‘good international citizenship’ (GIC), arguing that they do not offer a fundamentally different vision of world politics or states’ conduct from the perspective of GIC.

It has been over a decade since the emergence of what is now best known as the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI). This Special Issue highlights the immense complexity not only of the idea itself but also of China’s global influence and the varied attitudes and responses towards it.

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.

Organiser: German Institute for Global and Area Studies Dr. Sinan Chu (Speaker), Dr. Massimo Ramaioli (Speaker)

In this article, we draw on Gramscian theory to investigate how certain ideas become widely recognized as authoritative voices representing a non-Western geo-cultural site and as legitimate interlocutors in the global conversation on knowledge pluralization.

Organiser: University of British Columbia (UBC) Dr. Sinan Chu (Speaker)

In this talk, I will explore a novel approach to critically engaging with alternative knowledge traditions, such as the theoretical contributions of the “Chinese School,” in ways consistent with the mission of emancipating our knowledge production from its Eurocentric bias.