Susanne Kamerling is associate fellow at LeidenAsiaCentre (LAC) and the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) of Leiden University in the Netherlands and the SPEAR Institute in Germany. She has worked as a senior researcher and adviser on research projects on EU-Asia relations and China’s growing international influence for EU-projects such as the Europe-China Partnership Facility (ECPF), Enhancing Security Cooperation in and with Asia (ESIWA) and Advancing the EU’s Role in Multilateral Fora in Asia (MULTIFORA). Previously, she was Manager of Research of the Asia Pacific Research and Advice Network (#APRAN), an advisory network covering a range of topics in EU-Asia relations to the European External Action Service and European Commission.

Until 2018, she was lecturer at the International Relations and International Organisation department of Groningen University and PhD researcher at the Centre for East Asia Studies Groningen (CEASG). In this context she was a visiting fellow at Tsinghua University, Beijing in 2015 and the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi in 2016. She worked at the Netherlands Embassy in Beijing, China, for a short stint between 2015-2016. She was deputy head of the Clingendael Security and Conflict Programme (CSCP) of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ between 2010 and 2012 and training and research fellow at the CSCP and Clingendael Asia Programme since 2007.

She is member of the Editorial Board of the Clingendael Spectator, member of the Dutch China Knowledge Network (CKN) and member of the Europe India Research and Dialogue Network (EIRDN). She has a double MSc. in Political Science (International Relations) and Social Geography (International Development Studies/ Asia) and Conflict Studies at the University of Amsterdam and SciencePo, Paris.

Research interests:

· China’s foreign security policies

· India’s foreign security policies

· EU-Asia relations, the EU as a security actor

· Security issues and geopolitics in the Asia/ Indo-Pacific

· Regional security order and security mechanisms in the Asia/ Indo-Pacific

· Hybrid conflict including influence and interference operations and FIMI

· Maritime security issues

Projects and publications:

· Chinese influence and interference in the Dutch media landscape, LAC Report, October 2024. · Hoe de Europese democratie te wapenen tegen China, Clingendael Spectator, June 2023.

· Dutch foreign and security policy vis-à-vis China 1989-2022 [forthcoming 2024]

· Chinese information suppression in Europe [forthcoming 2025]

Contact E: s.kamerling@fgga.leidenuniv.nl

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