I participated in a workshop on "Democracy, Autocracy, and International Cooperation" at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. The host was Prof. Jonas Tallberg of the University of Stockholm.

My contribution "No Clean Slate: China’s Organizational Entangling and the Prospects for Global Order Transition" (authored together with Yuqian Cai) was published in International Studies Review. 

I participated in a project meeting of the research group "Learning Empire" at the University of Bremen. Our kind host was Prof. Wiebke Raabe. 

I presented my research at the DFG Workshop “Contested Regionalism and Its Effects” at the Fee University Berlin. The workshop was organized by Prof. Diana Panke.  

Together with China specialists from throughout Germany I presented a new research agenda on China called "Learning Empire" at the German Political Science Association (DVPW) congress in Göttingen. The panel was organized by Professor Tobias ten Brink from Constructor University. 

I participated in a roundtable at the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy in Bilbao. The roundtable was organized by Professor Oliver Kessler at the University of Erfurt.

I presented my research at the Department of Politics at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. It was a pleasure to return to my alma mater.

I presented a paper at Leiden University’s Third Global Transformations and Governance Challenges conference in the Hague. The paper, co-authored with Daniëlle Flonk at Hitotsubashi University, looks at China's changing institutional strategies in global internet governance.

I presented my research in progress at the annual convention of the International Studies Association in San Francisco. It was great to be back at the ISA in person for the first time in several years after covid interruptions.

I am happy to see my piece "China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony" published in Security Studies.

It is a response to Darren Lim and John Ikenberry's article "China and the Logic of Illiberal Hegemony" from 2023. Find the authors' reply here.