Ruike Xu TITLE/POSITION: Associate Professor
EMAIL: Ruike.Xu@bfsu.edu.cn
DEGREES • PhD International Relations, University of Nottingham, October 2015 • MA International Relations, Shandong University, July 2011 • BA International Relations, Shandong University, July 2008
ACADEMIC POSITIONS • September 2019- : Associate Professor, School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University. • September 2016-September 2019: Lecturer, School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University. • February 2015-February 2016: Research Assistant, Center for China Policy Studies, University of Nottingham
OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE • September 2011-October 2015: Studying for my PhD at the University of Nottingham • September 2019-July 2020: Visiting Scholar, American University in Cairo, Egypt.
TEACHING • British History • Modern British Political History • Post-war British Foreign Policy • Introduction to International Relations • Introduction to International Political Economy • Politics in Contemporary China • Understanding Contemporary China: English Reading and Writing
RESEARCH INTERESTS • British party politics • British foreign policy • The US-UK special relationship • The UK’s China policy after Brexit • British history
RESEARCH PROJECTS • The Persistence of the Anglo-American Special Relationship After the Cold War: An Alliance Theory Perspective (23FGJB005), funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China. • The Tendency and Countermeasures of the UK and the US Against China (22ZGC010), funded by Beijing Social Science Foundation. • The Northern Ireland Border and the Prospect of the Northern Ireland Problem in the Process of Brexit (19 GBQY035), funded by the Chinese Ministry of Education.
SCHOLARLY WORKS • Ruike Xu and Ruiping Wang, “The Radical Change in the UK’s China Policy in the Post-Brexit Era: From economic opportunism to ideological confrontation”, British Politics, 2025. (SSCI, first author) • Biao Zhang and Ruike Xu, “Chinese views of ‘Global Britain’: evidence from the government, media, and scholars”, Asia Europe Journal, Vol.23, No.1, 2025, pp.99-116.（SSCI, corresponding author） • Wyn Rees and Ruike Xu, “US-UK-France relations amid the Russia-Ukraine war: a new strategic alignment”, International Affairs, Vol.100, No.3, 2024, pp.1249–1261. (SSCI, corresponding author) • Degang Sun and Ruike Xu, “China and Egypt’s comprehensive strategic partnership in the Xi-sisi era: a ‘role theory’ prism”, Mediterranean Politics, Vol.28, No.5, 2023, pp.764-784. (SSCI, corresponding author) • Ruike Xu and Wyn Rees, “America and the special relationship: the impact of the Trump administration on relations with the UK”, British Politics, Vol.17, No.1, 2022, pp. 62-80. (SSCI, first author) • Ruike Xu and Yulin Lu, “Intra-party dissent over Brexit in the British Conservative Party”, British Politics, Vol. 17, No.3, 2022, pp.274-297. (SSCI, 1st author) • Ruike Xu and Wyn Rees, “Comparing the Anglo-American and Israeli-American Special Relationships in the Obama Era: An Alliance Persistence Perspective”, Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 41, No.5, 2018, pp. 494-518. (SSCI, 1st author) • Anoushiravan Ehteshami, Niv Horesh, and Ruike Xu, “Chinese-Iranian Mutual Strategic Perceptions”, The China Journal, No.79, 2018, pp.1-20. (SSCI, corresponding author) • Niv Horesh and Ruike Xu, “CCP Elite Perception of the US since the Early 1990s: Wang Huning and Zheng Bijian as Test Cases”, Asian Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 1, 2017, pp. 51-74. • Ruike Xu, “Institutionalization, Path dependence and the Persistence of the Anglo-American Special Relationship”, International Affairs, Vol. 92, No.5, 2016, pp.1207-1228 (SSCI, independent author).
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