Dr. Qinyi Xu is Assistant Professor at the School of International Studies, Peking University (Ph.D. & M.Phil., University of Cambridge; B.A., Peking University). She’s also the Researcher at Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Peking University and Director of Strategic Planning and Cooperation at PKU Analytics Lab for Global Risk Politics, as well as the Academic Director for the PKU- Sciences Po dual degree program at Peking University. 

Her research spans Global Climate Governance, Non-traditional Security Studies (especially environmental and energy security) to International Political Economy (Trade Politics and Governance), as well as Gender and Climate.

Newspaper Articles：

"Why Women Must be Centred in Climate Action", World Economic Forum, Oct  10, 2025.

“Trends in U.S. and European New Energy Policies Toward China,” Beijing Daily, Theoretical Edition, February 10, 2025.

“Security and Governance Studies Under the Condition of ‘Coexisting with Risk’,” Chinese Social Sciences Today, March 7, 2024.

Books：

Xu, Q. (forthcoming). Green Dilemma in Climate Change: the Study of State Role Conflicts. Springer Nature. (Contributions to International Relations series )

Xu, Q., & Guan, C. (2025). Policy Space Conflicts in Global Trade Politics. Routledge. (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics series.)

Selected Publications：

Guan, C., Meng, J., & Xu, Q*. (2025). Structural resilience of climate regime in the global conflicts. Environmental Research Communications. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ada5b6

“The Development Trends and Policy Recommendations of Global New Energy Industry Competition,” China Energy, No. 8, 2024.

“Crisis, Resilience, and Risk: Global Climate Governance under the Paris Agreement,” International Politics Quarterly, No. 5, 2023.

Li, K. X., Zhang, X., Yuen, K. F., Xu, Q., Zhu, Y., & Xiao, Y. (2023). Who carries the great trade? Logistics links between China and the world. Maritime Policy & Management, 1–18.

Yu, P., Chen, Y., Xu, Q., Zhang, S., Yung, E. H. K., & Chan, E. H. W. (2022). Embedding of spatial equity in a rapidly urbanising area: Walkability and air pollution exposure. Cities, 131, 103942.

Guan, C., & Xu, Q*. (2021). The Boundary of Supranational Rules: Revisiting Policy Space Conflicts in Global Trade Politics. Journal of World Trade, 55(5), 863–880.

Xiao, Y., Wang, G., Ge, Y. E., Xu, Q., & Li, K. X. (2021). Game Model for a New Inspection Regime of Port State Control under Different Reward and Punishment Conditions. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 156, 102526.

Xu, Q., & Guan, C. (2021). Escalated Policy Space Conflict: Tracing Institutional Contestations between China and the United States. Chinese Political Science Review, 6(1), 143–165.

Xu, Q., Dhaundiyal, S., & Guan, C. (2020). Structural Conflict under the New Green Dilemma: Inequalities in Development of Renewable Energy for Emerging Economies. Journal of Environmental Management, 273, 111117.

Ren, S., Wei, W., Sun, H., Xu, Q., Hu, Y., & Chen, X. (2020). Can Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure Achieve a Win-win for a Firm’s Environmental and Economic Performance? Journal of Cleaner Production, 250, 119530.