Profile：

Dr. XU Qinyi obtained her bachelor's degree from Peking University and both her master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge. She also served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development (CRSD) at Cambridge. Since 2022, she has been an Assistant Professor, Research Fellow, and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of International Studies, Peking University. She also holds a joint appointment at the Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Peking University, and serves as the Director of the Peking University–Sciences Po Dual Master's Degree Program.

Education Background：

Research Areas：

Non-traditional security studies (including environmental and energy security), global environmental and climate governance, climate and gender, international political economy.

Newspaper Articles：

“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. (To appear in the Contributions to International Relations series by Springer.)

Xu, Q., & Guan, C. (forthcoming). Policy Space Conflicts in Global Trade Politics. Routledge. (To appear in the 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.