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CHEN Zhaoyuan
2020-08-25 17:04:00
Zhaoyuan CHEN
Ph.D. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow
chen-zy@cass.org.cn
EDUCATION:
Renmin University of China (RUC)
Ph.D., School of International Studies, 2016-2020.
M.A., School of International Studies, 2014-2016.
B.A., School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2012-2014.
B.A., School of International Studies, 2010-2014.
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Visiting Ph.D., Political Science Department, 2018-2019
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT:
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
Assistant Research Fellow at Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP), 2020-2024
Senior Research Fellow at Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP), 2024-present
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Political outcomes of foreign direct investment
Design and diffusion of international economic institutions
Chinese foreign economic policy
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Top 1% Highly Cited Scholar, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), 2024.
T. K. Ann Award for International Trade Study, 2018 and 2020.
Outstanding Graduate Student, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education, 2020.
National Scholarship for Graduate Students, Ministry of Education, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
WU Yu-Zhang Scholarship (Highest Honor), RUC, 2019.
Scholarship for Academic Star in School of International Studies (Grand Prize), RUC, 2019.
Awarded Grant from Outstanding Innovative Talents Cultivation Funded Program, RUC, 2017.
Awarded Grant from Scientific Research Funds for Graduate Students, RUC, 2017.
Winner of Excellent Paper Award for National Ph.D. Forum (First Prize), Youth Committee of China Society of World Economics, 2017.
Co-Winner of Excellent Paper Award for Youth (First Prize), Annual Meeting of China Society of International Economic Law, 2017.
Top 10 Chinese Paper on Global Economic Governance, World Economic Yearbook, 2016.
PUBLICATIONS:
Book
1.Zhaoyuan Chen, Investing in State Capacity: FDI. Structure and State Building in the Developing Countries (投资国家能力：外国直接投资结构与发展中世界的国家建设), Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2023.
2.David A. Lake and Robert Powell (editors), Zhaoyuan Chen (translator), Strategic Choice and International Relations（战略选择与国际关系）, Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2024.
3.Edward Mansfield and Helen Milner (authors), Zhaoyuan Chen (translator), Votes, Vetoes, and the Political Economy of International Trade Agreements (表决、否决与国际贸易协定的政治经济学), Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2019.
4.Ye Tian et al. International Trade and Regime Change: Trade Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism (国际贸易与政体变迁：民主与威权的贸易起源), Beijing: China Social Science Press, 2019. (Coauthored)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
1.Zhaoyuan Chen, Kaiyun Ma, and Lian Ma, “China’s Overseas Contracted Projects and the Enhancement of Governance Capacity in Host Countries,” Quarterly Journal of International Politics (国际政治科学), No.2, 2024.
2.Zhaoyuan Chen and Chenyang Li, “Outward Investment Cooperation and Development Knowledge Diffusion of Chinese Path to Modernization,” Journal of Latin American Studies (拉丁美洲研究), No.6, 2024.
3.Zhaoyuan Chen, “International Expression of Local Knowledge in Outward Investment Cooperation,” Fudan International Studies Review (复旦大学国际关系评论), No.1, 2023.
4.Zhaoyuan Chen, Ting Yang, and Runtao Cheng, “Outlook of China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment in 2023,” Journal of International Economic Cooperation (国际经济合作), No.2, 2023.
5.Zhaoyuan Chen and Zhenmin Sun, “An Analysis of High-Quality Joint Development of the Belt and Road from African Perspective,” Journal of China-Africa Studies (中国非洲学刊), No.1, 2023.
6.Zhaoyuan Chen, “Time Horizon and Patient Capital in International Investment Cooperation,” World Politics Studies (世界政治研究), No.1, 2023.
7.Zhaoyuan Chen, “Foreign Direct Investment and State Capacity in the Developing World: Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence from the Perspective of Investor Diversity,” World Economics and Politics (世界经济与政治), No.3, 2022.
8.Zhaoyuan Chen and Aizong Xiong, “The New ESG Regulations in EU and Chinese Firms ‘Going Global’,” China Finance (中国金融)，No.2, 2022.
9.Zhaoyuan Chen, “China’s Outward Direct Investment and State Capacity Building in Ethiopia,” World Politics Studies (世界政治研究), No.1, 2021.
10.Zhaoyuan Chen, “China’s Developmental Tales in Africa,” China International Strategy Review, Vol.3, No.1, 2021.
11.Zhaoyuan Chen, “Partnership Choice of China's Free Trade Agreements: An Empirical Analysis Based on Diplomatic Strategies,” World Economics and Politics（世界经济与政治）, No.7, 2019.
12.Zhaoyuan Chen, “Legalization Degree, Signatory Identity and Investment Promotion Effect of Bilateral Investment Treaties,” Foreign Affairs Review（外交评论）, No.2, 2019.
13.Zhaoyuan Chen, “The Domestic Political Impacts under the Trend of De-globalization: Core Issues and Theoretical Chances,” Teaching and Research（教学与研究）, No.10, 2018.
14.Zhaoyuan Chen, Ye Tian and Donglin Han, “Ownership Types and the Location Choice of Chinese Enterprises’ Outward Direct Investment: A Transaction Costs Perspective,” World Economics and Politics（世界经济与政治）, No.6, 2018.
(Winner of Excellent Paper Award for National Ph.D. Forum, Youth Committee of China Society of World Economics, 2017)
15.Zhaoyuan Chen, “Legalization, Institutional Benefits and Path Choices of Economic Integration in Asia-Pacific,” Southeast Asia Studies（东南亚研究）, No. 5, 2017.
16.Zhaoyuan Chen, “Host Country’s Political Institutions and the Location Choice of Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment,” World Economics and Politics（世界经济与政治）, No.11, 2016.
17.Zhaoyuan Chen, Ye Tian and Donglin Han, “Institutional Choice of Dispute Settlement Mechanism in Bilateral Investment Treaties,” World Economics and Politics（世界经济与政治）, No.3, 2015.
(Top 10 Chinese Paper on Global Economic Governance, World Economic Yearbook, 2016)
18.Chong Li and Zhaoyuan Chen, “United States Supply Chain Alliances Formation: Progress, Types, and Prospects,” Northeast Asia Forum (东北亚论坛), No.6, 2024.
19.Yating Zhao and Zhaoyuan Chen, “China's Diplomacy towards the Developing Countries: Historical Inheritance and Current Practice,” Journal of Shanxi Normal University (Social Science Edition) (山西师大学报(社会科学版)), No.3, 2023.
20.Jizhao Huang and Zhaoyuan Chen, “Competition and Differentiation: Japan's Strategic Choice of Infrastructure Investment in Southeast Asia,” Japanese Studies (日本学刊)，No.2, 2022.
21.Ye Tian and Zhaoyuan Chen, “De-globalization Trends and Global Cooperation Against Covid-19,” Contemporary World and Socialism（当代世界与社会主义）, No. 4, 2020.
22.Donglin Han, Zhaoyuan Chen and Ye Tian, “To Sign or not to Sign: Explaining the Formation of China’s Bilateral Investment Treaties,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2020.
23.Qiang Zhou and Zhaoyuan Chen, “Economic Crisis, Political Realignment and Western Populism: Formal Model and Empirical Tests Based on Domestic Political Coalition,” World Economics and Politics（世界经济与政治）, No.11, 2019.
24.Ye Tian, Zhaoyuan Chen and Qian Xiong, “International Trade, Initial Authoritarian Types, and Democratic Transition,” World Economics and Politics（世界经济与政治）, No.5, 2017.
25.Shengkai Mo and Zhaoyuan Chen, “International Law amid International Relations: A Construction of Jurisprudence Based on Theories of International Institutions,” Foreign Affairs Review（外交评论）, No.1, 2017.
Book Chapter
1.Zhaoyuan Chen, “High-Standard Opening Up to Enhance Efficacy of Governance,” in Zhizhong Yao, et al., Zhejiang’s Practice of High-Standard Opening Up to Promote Common Prosperity (高水平对外开放推动共同富裕的浙江实践), Beijing: Social Science Academic Press, 2024.
2.Zhaoyuan Chen, “Global Food Crisis under Geopolitical Conflicts and Pandemic,” in Yuyan Zhang and Zhibo Zou, eds., Annual Report on International Politics and Security (2023): Yellow Book of International Politics (全球政治与安全报告（2023）•国际形势黄皮书), Beijing: Social Science Academic Press, 2022.
3.Shengkai Mo and Zhaoyuan Chen, ““International Law amid International Relations,” in Yue Chen and Ye Tian, eds., International Politics: A Guidebook for Students (国际政治学学科地图), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2021.
4.Zhaoyuan Chen, “International Political Economy in Hard Times: Explore the Political Effects of the Contraction of Globalization,” in Yizhou Wang, Xiaoming Zhang and Junju Zhuang, eds., International Relation Theories: Frontier Issues and New Approaches（国际关系理论：前沿问题与新的路径）, Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2018.
Revised: January 2025.