Rate My Professor Jingdong Yuan

Associate Professor Jingdong Yuan serves in the Department of Government and International Relations, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, where he has been appointed since 2010. He earned his PhD in political science from Queen's University in 1995, MA from Carleton University, and BA from Xi'an Foreign Studies University. Yuan's research focuses on Asia-Pacific security, Chinese defence and foreign policy, global and regional arms control and non-proliferation, Indo-Pacific security, Sino-Indian relations, China-EU relations, nuclear arms control, and Chinese security policy. He is affiliated with the Centre for International Security Studies, United States Studies Centre, and China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, and serves as Associate Senior Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

His career includes visiting appointments at the National University of Singapore, University of Macau, East-West Center, National Chengchi University, Mercator Institute for China Studies, Fudan University, Berlin Social Sciences Centre, and United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Yuan has delivered public lectures, including at the Sydney Ideas series on geopolitics in a post-pandemic world. Key publications encompass co-authored books China and India: Cooperation or Conflict? (2003) and Chinese Cruise Missiles: A Quiet Force-Multiplier (2014), as well as co-edited volumes Engaging China: How Australia Can Lead the Way Again (2023), Trump’s America and International Relations in the Indo-Pacific (2021), and Australia and China at 40 (2012). Prominent articles include 'The United States and Stability in the Taiwan Strait' (2023), 'External and Domestic Drivers of Nuclear Trilemma in Southern Asia: China, India, and Pakistan' (2022), and 'Forging a New Security Order in Eurasia: China, the SCO, and the Impacts on Regional Governance' (2022). His scholarship appears in outlets such as Asian Survey, Washington Quarterly, Nonproliferation Review, Contemporary Security Policy, and South China Morning Post, contributing to understandings of regional security dynamics and great power relations.