Degang Sun

GRM 2025 Workshop: Great Power Competition in the Asia-Pacific: Challenges for Gulf Economic and Political Interests

GRM 2024 Workshop: Conflict Resolution Initiatives in the Gulf and Beyond: Strategies of Engagement and Prospects of Success

GRM 2023 Workshop: The Gulf and the Horn of Africa: Trans-Regional Competition and Cooperation

Professor of Political Science at the Institute of International Studies, and Director of Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China GCC Foreign Policy and International Relations Fudan University

Degang Sun is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of International Studies, and Director of Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He was Deputy Director of the Middle East Studies Institute of Shanghai International Studies University, China, and he was a visiting scholar at Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (September 2018-September 2019), and Senior Associate Member at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, and an Academic Visitor to Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (2012-2013), Denver University (2007-2008), and Hong Kong University (2004-2005). His research interests are Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations, Great Powers’ Strategies in the Middle East, and China’s Middle East Diplomacy. He has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, such as Mediterranean Politics, Middle East Policy, Journal of Contemporary China, China: An International Journal, and Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. His latest book is China’s Holistic Diplomacy Towards the Arab Countries: A Perspective of China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (Seoul: Xinxing Publisher, 2024).