Nath Aldalala'a is an Adjunct Professor of Institute for Gloabl Public Policy at Fudan University, Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Political Science and Public administration at Shandong University. His current research focuses on Sino-Arab relations examining China specific relations with the Arabian Gulf States. His forthcoming monograph is China’s Relations with the Arabs: Business, Respect, and Future Common Security Interests. His latest assignment was a visiting researcher at Trends Research Organization in Abu Dhabi for part of the year 2021.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

China Foreign Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy

EDUCATION

• PhD in International Relations from the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK

• Master’s degree in International Relations from the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth, UK

Selected Publications

• Aldalala’a, N.  (2021) Contextualizing Biden’s China Foreign Policy. Trends Research Organization. Abu Dhabi. UAE.

• Aldalala’a, N. (2020b). ‘End of Liberal Triumphalism: A perspective on China in the post-Covid Global Order’. STRATEGIC TRENDS (1), June, First Edition, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

• Aldalala’a, N.  (2020a). ‘The impact of Covid-19 on global politics: ‘It is all in the response’ Trends Research Organization, April 23, 2020.  Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Aldalala’a, N., & Geoffrey Nash, (2019) ‘Islamophobia and the War of Representations: Martin Amis’s 'The Last Days of Muhammad Atta’, in Peter Morey et, al. Contesting Islamophobia:  Anti-Muslim Prejudice in Media, Culture and Politics, I.B. Tauris.

• Aldalala’a, N. (2018) ‘Asiatic in the Asiatic Mode of Production: Chinese Intellectuals Choices.’ The Kolkata Journal of International Affairs, vol.2, Issue 2, pp. 195-219.

• Aldalala’a, N. (2017b) Why has China Achieved Success by Taking the Socialist Road?  By Dai Mucai, Journal of Intercultural Inquiry, Vol 3, No 1.

• Aldalala’a, N., & Geoffrey Nash. (2017a). Critical Muslim responses to postcolonial theory and writing. In J. McClug, & E. Santesso, (Eds.), Purity and hybridity: Islam and postcolonial discourse. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

Recent Book Reviews

• Aldalala’a, N. (2022). Marx and Lenin in Africa and Asia: Socialism(s) and Socialist Legacies (Third Worlds), edited by Harry Verhoeven. Brill: Journal of African and Asian Studies. (SSCI)

• Aldalala’a, N. (2022). Stuart Price and Ben Harbisher (Editors), Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse. Annenberg Press: University of Southern California: International Journal of Communication Vol. 16, 2022. (SSCI).

• Aldalala’a, N. (2022). Hamka and Islam: Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World, by Khairudin Aljunied. Kyoto University; Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 11, No.1. (ESCI).

• Aldalala’a, N. (2022). Contesting Revisionism: China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order. By Steve Chan, Huyun Feng, Kai He, and Weixing Hu. American Journal of Chinese Studies, (ISSN 0742-5929), Vol. 29, issue 1, April 2022.

• Aldalala’a, N. (2022). ASEAN-China Cooperation for Poverty Reduction, Yue Yang and Yanjun Guo (Editors). Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, 2022, 11(1).

• Aldalala’a, N. (2022). Paradigm Shifts in Chinese Studies, Shiping Hua (Editor), Chinese University of Hong Kong: The China Review, (Forthcoming November 2022). (SSCI).

• Aldalala’a, N. (2022). Internationalizing the Social Sciences in China: The Disciplinary Development of Sociology at Tsinghua University, Meng Xie (Author), Singapore: Springer Verlag. 1st Ed. 2022.ISBN-13:9789811901621. Forthcoming at International Sociology Review, Sage Publications, December 2022.

• Aldalala’a, N. (2020) Review Article, Orientalism and Literature, edited by Geoffrey P. Nash. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. The Muslim World Book Review, 40: 4, 2020.