Dingding Chen

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chen.

Dingding Chen
陈定定
Academic background
Alma mater	Renmin University of China University of Chicago
Thesis	Transformation from within: Chinese Agency and International Human Rights Norms, 1978--2005 (2007)
Academic work
Institutions	Jinan University
Main interests	Chinese foreign policy Asian security Human rights in China
Vice President of International Studies Association
In office 2014–2018
President	Amitav Acharya (2014–2015) Paul Diehl (2015–2016) T. V. Paul (2016–2017) Brett Ashley Leeds (2017–2018)

Dingding Chen (Chinese: 陈定定; pinyin: Chén Dìngdìng) is a Chinese political scientist whose research interests include Chinese foreign policy, Asian security, Chinese politics, and human rights. He is Professor of International Relations (IR) and Associate Dean of Institute for 21st Century Silk Road Studies at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He is a non-resident fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), a visiting researcher at Johns Hopkins University SAIS, a researcher at Center for Globalization, Tsinghua University, and the founding (in 2016) director of Intellisia Institute (海国图智研究院), a Chinese independent think tank focusing on international affairs. He is a weekly contributor to The Diplomat magazine.

Academic career

Chen holds a B.A. in International Economics from the Renmin University of China and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. Between 2005 and 2006, he was a visiting instructor in Government Department at Dartmouth College. Between 2006 and 2007, he was a Fellow at Harvard University. From 2009 to 2016, Chen was an Assistant Professor at the University of Macau where he teaches Chinese Politics and IR. From 2014 to 2018, he was a Vice-President of International Studies Association (Asia Pacific region).

Chen is also an academic translator. He has translated Richard Ned Lebow's Why Nations Fight, Graham Allison's Destined for War, and Edward N. Luttwak's The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire into Simplified Chinese.

Publications

Books

• 让世界读懂中国 [Help the World Understand China] (World Affairs Press, 2019)
• 全球秩序 [Global Order] (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2018)

• 国外智库看亚太经合组织(APEC) [On Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation by Global Think Tanks] (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2017)

• International Engagement in China's Human Rights (Routledge, 2015)

• 国际关系中的预测 理论与实践 [International Relations Forecast: Theory and Practice] (Shanghai People's Press, 2014)