Nath Aldalala'a was Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Political Science and Public administration at Shandong University. His research focuses on Sino-Arab relations examining China specific relations with the Arabian Gulf States.

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.