Dr. Xinyu Yuan

Forschungsgruppenleiterin // Senior Researcher

The light boat has already sailed past a thousand mountains

Xinyu Yuan ist Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe Friedenssicherung und Konfliktmanagement durch die Vereinten Nationen und Senior Researcher im Programmbereich Internationale Institutionen am PRIF. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Peacekeeping und Peacebuilding, Wandel der internationalen Ordnung und Anfechtung von Normen, nicht-westliche Mächte und die transnationale Zivilgesellschaft.

CV

| seit 2025
Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe Friedenssicherung und Konfliktmanagement durch die Vereinten Nationen am PRIF
Forschungsassoziierung, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genf (IHEID)

| 2025
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Universität Genf

| 2022–2025
Post-doctoral Researcher, Forschungsprojekt „Peace by Other Means: Alternative Practices of Building Peace a Changing Global Order“, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genf (IHEID)

| 2022–2024
Akademische Koordinatorin, Geneva Policy Outlook, gemeinsam gegründet vom Kanton Genf, der Fondation pour Genève und dem IHEID

| 2023
Empfängerin des Postdoc-Brückenstipendiums der European International Studies Association (EISA)

| 2022–2024
Visiting Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Master's Programme, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genf (IHEID)

| 2022
Promotion in Internationalen Beziehungen und Politikwissenschaft, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genf (IHEID)

| 2017–2022
Doktorandin, Department of International Relations and Political Science (IRPS), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genf (IHEID)
Research Assistant, Global Governance Centre (GGC) / Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genf (IHEID)

| 2017
M.A. in International Politics, School of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, China
Empfängerin des Zhejiang Government Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students

| 2017
Empfängerin eines Gaststipendiums des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes (DAAD)

| 2016
Austauschstudentin, Universität Trient, Italien
Empfängerin eines Erasmus+-Mobilitätsstipendiums

Publikationen

  • (Re)Setting the boundaries of peacebuilding in a changing global order
    | 2025
    Kobayashi, Kazushige; Krause, Keith; Yuan, Xinyu (2025): (Re)Setting the boundaries of peacebuilding in a changing global order, Contemporary Security Policy, 46: 2, 226–252. DOI: 10.1080/13523260.2025.2466287
  • Pathways to socialisation: China, Russia, and competitive norm socialisation in a changing global order
    | 2022
    Kobayashi, Kazushige; Krause, Keith; Yuan, Xinyu (2022): Pathways to socialisation: China, Russia, and competitive norm socialisation in a changing global order, Review of International Studies, 48: 3, 560–582. DOI: 10.1017/S0260210522000146
  • The Chinese approach to peacebuilding: contesting liberal peace?
    | 2022
    Yuan, Xinyu (2022): The Chinese approach to peacebuilding: contesting liberal peace?, Third World Quarterly, 43: 7, 1798–1816. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2022.2074389
  • Norm Contestation and Normative Transformation in Global Peacebuilding Order(s): The Cases of China, Japan, and Russia
    | 2021
    Jütersonke, Oliver; Kobayashi, Kazushige; Krause, Keith; Yuan, Xinyu (2021): Norm Contestation and Normative Transformation in Global Peacebuilding Order(s): The Cases of China, Japan, and Russia, International Studies Quarterly, 65: 4, 944–959. DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqab060
  • Chinese pathways to peacebuilding: from historical legacies to contemporary practices
    | 2020
    Yuan, Xinyu (2020): Chinese pathways to peacebuilding: from historical legacies to contemporary practices, Pathways to Peace and Security, 26–45. DOI: 10.20542/2307-1494-2020-1-26-45