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

Prof. Degang Sun is Professor and Deputy Director of the Middle East Studies Institute of Shanghai International Studies University, China. He was an academic visitor to Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University(2018-2019), the Middle East Centre, Oxford University, and Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (2012-2013). His research interest is China’s Middle East Policy, international relations in the Middle East. His most recent works are: Diplomacy of Quasi-alliance in the Middle East ( Berlin: Gerlach, 2019); “China’s Response to the Revolts in the Arab World: A Case of Pragmatic Diplomacy,” (Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2014, with Professor Yahia Zoubir); and “China’s Economic Diplomacy towards the Arab Countries: Challenges Ahead?” (Journal of Contemporary China, 2018, with Prof. Yahia Zoubir).