Dr. Sinan Chu

Research Fellow

Dr. Sinan Chu

  • Short CV

    • 10/2022 - present: Editor of Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
    • 05/2022 - 07/2022: Visiting Fellow at Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China,” Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • 12/2018 - present: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies, team member of the projects "Legitimate Multipolarity" and “Drifting Apart: International Institutions in Crisis and the Management of Dissociation Processes”
    • 05/2019: PhD in Political Science, Department of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York, USA; Subfield: Comparative Politics, International Relations
    • 08/2016 - 11/2018: Visiting Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies; Funding: Konrad Adenauer Foundation
    • 12/2010: M.A. in Political Science & International Relations (dual-degree), Department of Political Science & Department of International Relations, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York, USA
    • 06/2007: B.A. in International Politics, Department of Politics and Public Administration, College of Public Management, Nanjing University, Jiangsu Province, PRC 

    Current Research

    • Legitimacy in global governance

    • Science, experts, and politics

    • Nationalism and ethnicity in China

    • Global IR

    Countries and Regions

    • China

    • East Asia

    Dr. Sinan Chu

    Research Fellow

    T. +49 40 428874-29[email protected]

    International Studies Quarterly | 04/2024

    In the Eyes of the Beholders: The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions under Multipolarity

    We investigate how global publics evaluate the legitimacy of two GGIs—the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Group of Twenty (G20)—and multipolarity’s role in those evaluations.

    Research Project | 01/04/2019 - 31/12/2021

    Drifting Apart: International Institutions in Crisis and the Management of Dissociation Processes (DRIFTS)

    Brexit, US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement under President Trump and the demise of security cooperation between Russia and the West are reminders that international cooperation is fragile. States dissociate themselves from international institutions – either by formally withdrawing their membership, by ignoring their commitments or by creating alternative institutions. The DRIFTS project, coordinated by HSFK, explores the tensions between states that result from these dissociation processes.
    Leibniz Association, 2019-2021

    Research Project | 01/12/2018 - 31/03/2022

    Legitimate Multipolarity

    Global governance institutions work differently under conditions of multipolarity. In a first step, in this project we investigate the legitimacy deficits of global governance institutions under conditions of multipolarity. In a second step, we analyse possible solutions to such problems put forward in rising powers’ foreign policy discourses. Legitimate Multipolarity adopts an empirical approach to the study of legitimacy and contributes to a global understanding of multilateralism’s merits, pitfalls – and prospects for reform.
    DFG, 2018-2022

    Conference | 27/08/2024 - 31/08/2024

    17th EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations

    17th EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Lille Catholic University - Université Catholique de Lille , Lille Organisers: European International Studies Association Dr. Sinan Chu (Panelist), Dr. Maxine Rubin (Panelist)

    Organizing and participating in roundtable "Global IR: How Should I Do It?"

    Conference | 27/08/2024 - 31/08/2024

    Interlocution: A Nondual Methodology to Disrupt the Non-Western National Self

    17th EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Lille Catholic University - Université Catholique de Lille , Lille Organisers: European International Studies Association Dr. Sinan Chu (Speaker)

    Paper presentation at the panel "Global IR Research Methodology: Consolidating Nondualism"

    Workshop | 03/07/2024 - 05/07/2024

    “You have no power here!”: Qing’s Failed Legitimacy Claim in the Islamsphere and the Limits of Its Universal Rule

    EWIS 2024: 11th European Workshops in International Studies, Istanbul Organisers: European International Studies Association Dr. Sinan Chu (Speaker)

    Revisiting the historical record of China's last imperial dynasty's multicultural governance from the perspective of global IR

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