Dr Fuzuo Wu
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Lecturer in International Relations
Biography
I hold a PhD in International Relations from Fudan University and did postdocs at Yale (2010-11), Oxford (2012-13), and Princeton (2013-14). Before joining Salford in 2020 as a tenured Lecturer in International Relations, I was an Assistant Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark (2015-19) and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (2014-15).
Areas of Research
• China and India’s foreign policy, energy security and climate policy/diplomacy, nuclear nonproliferation and export control policy
• Global Environmental Governance
Currently, I am working on my new book project on Chinese foreign policy towards the Arctic based on one of my articles published in the Journal of Contemporary China.
Areas of Supervision
I'd like to welcome PhD applications relating to any topics on China, India, the US, energy security, climate change, and nuclear nonproliferation and export control.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
As module convenor: International Politics 1 (Level 4); Contemporary International Relations (Level 5); Contemporary Security (Level 5); US Foreign Policy Since 1945 (Level 5); Chinese Foreign Policy Since 1949 (Level 6); Politics Placement (Level 6); Global Environmental Politics (Level 6, to be progressed to MA in 2025)
Teaching: Introduction to Comparative Politics (Level 4); International Politics 2 (Level 4); Politics and Democracy (Level 4); Researching Politics (Level 5); International Political Economy (Level 6); Strategic and Security Studies (MA)
Supervision:
BA and MA dissertations (at Aalborg University, I supervised 50 MA students’ theses and more than 100 MA students’ group projects, and at Salford, I have supervised 3 MA dissertations)
Qualifications
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MA in World History (Sichuan University)
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PhD in International Relations (Fudan University)
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Postdoctoral Fellow (Yale University, University of Oxford, Princeton University)
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Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Publications
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Shaping China’s Engagement with the Arctic: Nationalist Narratives and Geopolitical Reality
Wu, F. (2023). Shaping China’s Engagement with the Arctic: Nationalist Narratives and Geopolitical Reality. Journal of Contemporary China, 32(143), 828-843. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2022.2124353
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Energy and climate policies in China and India : a two-level comparative study
Wu, F. (2018). Energy and climate policies in China and India : a two-level comparative study. Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333498
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India’s pragmatic foreign policy toward China’s BRI and AIIB : struggling for relative and absolute gains
Wu, F. (2020). India’s pragmatic foreign policy toward China’s BRI and AIIB : struggling for relative and absolute gains. Journal of Contemporary China, 29(123), 354-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2019.1645486
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Shaping China’s climate diplomacy : wealth, status, and asymmetric interdependence
Wu, F. (2016). Shaping China’s climate diplomacy : wealth, status, and asymmetric interdependence. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 21, 199-215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-016-9404-4
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China’s puzzling energy diplomacy towards Iran
Wu, F. (2015). China’s puzzling energy diplomacy towards Iran. Asian perspective, 39(1), 47-69. https://doi.org/10.1353/apr.2015.0009