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Xu Ruike

Release time:2025-09-01 01:11:00

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).