Dr Fuzuo Wu

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies

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Contact Details

Crescent House 113a
Salford
M5 4WT

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Current positions

Lecturer in International Relations

Biography

I hold a PhD in International Relations from Fudan University and was a Postdoctoral research fellow 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).

I trained on China’s policy on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and its related export control policy at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington (October 2008–March 2009), Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and Center for International Trade and Security at the University of Georgia (May–July 2009). Also, I was a visiting PhD student at the Cooperative Monitoring Center of the Sandia National Laboratories for two months (January to March 2007).

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.

Teaching Qualifications and Recognitions Publications

Teaching

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Programme Leader for MA in International Relations and Global Challenges (forthcoming September 2026)

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); International Relations: Theories and Practices (Level 7 forthcoming September 2026); International Relations: Research Methods (Level 7 forthcoming September 2026); Global Environmental Politics and Energy Security (Level 7 forthcoming September 2026)

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 Studies (Level 7)

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 and Recognitions

Qualifications

  • MA in World History (Sichuan University)

  • PhD in International Relations (Fudan University)

  • Postdoctoral Fellow (Yale University, University of Oxford, Princeton University)

  • Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)


Publications

Publications

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