Contemporary Chinese government and politics; Chinese health and social policy, poverty and inequality; comparative politics
Elected 2016
President of the British Association for Chinese Studies (2014-17).
Foreign policy analysis; European Union and its member states; foreign policy and domestic society; international politics; international relations theory.
British and American political thought, c.1870-present, with a focus on empire and international relations; contemporary international political theory; the politics of memory; political aesthetics, especially architecture and speculative literature
The modern history of the Middle East and North Africa from the late Ottoman era to the present day
