XU Xin

Director, Cornell University

PKUSSI Course:The Rise of China and Change in World Politics

Prof. XU Xin 徐昕 (BA & MA in International Relations, Peking University; Ph.D. in Government, Cornell) is Executive Manager of Cornell University’s Levenson China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program (CAPS) and Adjunct Professor in Cornell’s Department of Government; he has also been Visiting Professor at Peking University Summer School International since 2013. He has taught or researched at Peking University, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Harvard University, and Princeton University. His research and teaching focus on Chinese foreign policy and East Asian international relations. His areas of interest include identity politics and the Taiwan issue, Chinese modernity, China’s grand strategy, East Asian security politics, and Olympics and international relations. He has published articles and book chapters about various issues in these areas. His most recent writing, “One China, Two Worlds: Taiwan and China’s Quest for Identity and Security” is included in Peter J. Katzenstein’s Sinicization and The Rise of China (Routledge, 2012). He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled The Power of Identity: China and East Asian Security Politics in the Post-Cold War Era.