China's soft power

Dr Huiyun Feng, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Utah State University, has joined DIIS Foreign Policy unit on a project funded by the Defence and Security Policy studies examining Chinese foreign policy practices in Africa. The project will concentrate on different investments as means of exerting Chinese soft power and setting up new norms countering the western practices. By systematically examining the questions related to Chinese investments in Africa on motives, strategies, and impacts, this project will help foreign and security policymakers better understand the economic and strategic implications of China’s rise forAfrica as well as the world.

Dr Huiyun is a former Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar at United States Institute of Peace. Her publications have appeared in i.a. the European Journal of International Relations, European Political Science Review, International Politics. She is the author of Chinese Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Confucianism, Leadership and War (Routledge, 2007) and the co-author of Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific: Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior (Routledge, 2013). Her main research areas include foreign policy analysis, strategic culture, Chinese government and politics, Chinese foreign policy, Asian security, Asian politics and development, and Track II diplomacy.

For further information please contact Fabrizio Tassinari or Helle Malmvig.