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China

Chuyu Liu

Dr. Chuyu Liu studies international relations and comparative politics with a focus on China’s ethnic politics, overseas investments and the political economy of the Belt and Road Initiative. His work integrates interviews, field experiments and quantitative analysis to explore how local and national actors shape policy outcomes. Currently Head of the “Politics of Contemporary China” research area at the University of Zurich, he previously taught at the University of Amsterdam and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Research interests

  • Belt and Road Initiative
  • Energy politics

About Chuyu Liu

Dr. Chuyu Liu is an assistant professor in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on China’s domestic ethnic conflict and overseas investments. His current research projects examine energy politics and digital politics under China’s Belt and Road Initiative. His work has appeared in Energy Policy, Environmental Politics, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Comparative Economics, the Journal of East Asian Studies, Security Studies, and The China Review.