著作

Books & Monographs

Richard J. Cook, Maximilian Ohle and Zhaoying Han. (2025). Asia Pacific Secondary States as Kingmakers: Alignment Roles in the China-US Strategic Competition. London and New York: Routledge. Forthcoming.

论文 

Peer Reviewed Publications

Richard J. Cook, Mateus Bilhar, Maximilian Ohle and Zhaoying Han. (2025). “Hedging Comes to Latin America: Gauging Brazil’s Coping Strategies vis-à-vis the Sino-US Peer Competition.” Journal of Latin American Studies, online: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X25000021(SSCI & AHCI), IF: 0.7. 

Richard J. Cook, Maximilian Ohle and Zhaoying Han. (2024). “Geopolitical Kingmakers: South Korea and the Philippines as Linchpins amid the China-US Competition.” The Chinese Journal of International Politics 17(4): 379-403. (SSCI), Q1, IF: 3.0.

Richard J. Cook. (2024). “Review of World War Two from Timeghost as Modern Visual Learning Material.” Journal of Political Science Education 21(2): 359-362. (ESCI), IF: 1.1.

Richard J. Cook, Maximilian Ohle and Zhaoying Han. (2024). “South Korea’s Foreign Policy Shifts Under President Yoon and Implications for the Sino-US Peer Competition.” Korea Observer 55(1): 1-28. (SSCI).

Mateus Bilhar, Zhaoying Han, Maximilian Ohle and Richard J. Cook. (2023). “Brazil’s Pragmatic Equidistance: Hedging and the Second World War.” International Relations, online: https://doi.org/10.1177/00471178231211499. (SSCI), Q2, IF: 1.6.

Yaohui Wang, Maximilian Ohle, Richard J. Cook and Elliot Ji. (2023). “A Friend in Need May Not be a Friend Indeed: Anti-Coronavirus Aid and China’s Soft Power in Europe.” Journal of Contemporary China, 33(148): 649-665. (SSCI), Q1, IF: 3.1.

Richard J. Cook, Maximilian Ohle and Zhaoying Han. (2022). “The Illusion of the China-US-Europe Strategic Triangle: Reactions from Germany and the UK.” The Journal of Chinese Political Science 27(3): 493-518. Special Issue (SSCI), Q1, IF: 4.4.

Maximilian Ohle, Richard J. Cook, Srdan M. Jovanovic and Zhaoying Han. (2022). “Russia’s Architecture of Hegemony: Christian Orthodox Subordination Strategies in Russia’s Peripheral Zone.” Europe-Asia Studies 73(3): 382-401. (SSCI), Q1, IF: 2.1.

Richard J. Cook, Maximilian Ohle and Zhaoying Han. (2021). “Bargaining Interactions Reconsidered: TheKorean Peninsula Nuclear Crisis Viewed through the Lens of Hierarchy.” The Pacific Review 34(1): 113-145. (SSCI), Q1, IF: 2.43. 

Maximilian Ohle, Richard J. Cook and Zhaoying Han. (2020). “China’s Engagement with Kazakhstan and Russia’s Zugzwang: Why Is Nur-Sultan Incurring Regional Power Hedging?” Journal of Eurasian Studies 11(1): 86-103.

Maximilian Ohle, Richard J. Cook, Zhaoying Han and Rysbek Mamazhanov. (2019). “Caught in the Middle: What Is Bishkek's Hedging Stratagem?” Contemporary Eurasia 8(1): 45-62.

Richard J. Cook, Zhaoying Han, Maximilian Ohle and Srdan M. Jovanovic. (2019). “Bridging the Theorist-Practitioner Gap in IR: What are the Risks and Benefits?” Korean Journal of International Studies 17(2): 103-131. (ESCI).

Richard J. Cook and Srdan M. Jovanovic. (2019). “The Emu Strikes Back: An Inquiry into Australia’s Peculiar Military Action of 1932.” The Romanian Journal of Historical Studies 2(1): 1-11.

Srdan M. Jovanovic and Richard J. Cook. (2019). “The Operational Code Analysis of the Serbian Orthodox Church’s Official Political Discourse on Kosovo.” South Eastern European Review 14(1): 250-270.

Zhaoying Han, Richard J. Cook and Maximilian Ohle. (2019). “The Thucydides Trap on the Korean Peninsula: So Why Won't the USA and China Get Caught?” The Journal of Chinese Political Science 24(1): 105-127. Special Issue (SSCI), Q1, IF: 1.69.

著作章节

Book Chapters

Maximilian Ohle, Richard J. Cook and Zhaoying Han. (2024). "Political and Economic Drivers of the Hedge: Unboxing Germany's contemporary Relations towards China." In Mher D. Sahakyan (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Euraian International Relations. London and New York: Routledge, 167-181.

Richard J. Cook, Maximilian Ohle and Zhaoying Han. (2023). “The Kingmaker’s Conundrum: South Korea Navigating the Sino-US Peer Competition.” In Kari Roberts and Saira Bano (Eds). Rethinking the Great Power Rivalry: The Ascendancy of Regional Powers in Contemporary US-China Relations. Cham: Palgrave McMillan, 91-111. 

媒体评论

Commentaries

Richard J. Cook and Alaric Searle. “Queen Elizabeth II’s Soft Power and Britain’s Place in a Post-Elizabethan Age”, E-International Relations, October 16, 2022. Online: https://www.e-ir.info/2022/10/16/queen-elizabeth-iis-soft-power-and-britains-place-in-a-post-elizabethan-age/.

Richard J. Cook and Maximilian Ohle. “A Crucial Year for the Asia-Pacific Region: Gauging Elections and Strategic Transformation.” Modern Diplomacy, March 6, 2022. Online: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/03/06/a-crucial-year-for-the-asia-pacific-region-gauging-elections-and-strategic-transformations/.

Mateus Bilhar, Richard J. Cook and Zhaoying Han. “To ‘B’ or Not to ‘B’: The BRICS, Brazil and Bolsonaro.” Modern Diplomacy, March 1, 2022. Online: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/03/01/to-b-or-not-to-b-the-brics-brazil-and-bolsonaro/. This article was also reposted on the BRICS Information Portal, March 3, 2022. Online: https://infobrics.org/post/35255/.

Richard J. Cook. “Business as Usual or a New Normal? Talking about USA – China Relations with William Zarit.” Business Tianjin, February 10, 2017. Online: http://www.businesstianjin.com/images/magazine/bt%20201702%20mq96.pdf.

会议文献

Conference Papers

“The Kingmaker’s Conundrum: South Korea Navigating the Sino-US Peer Competition”, held by the International Studies Association (ISA), at the ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco (03/04/2024).

“Kingmakers: Asia-Pacific Secondary States and their Role in the Sino-US Peer Competition”, held by the Tianjin Forum, Tianjin (19/10/2023).

“Strategic Transformations and the BRICS: Gauging Brazil’s Strategic Hedge Amid the Sino-US Peer Competition”, held by 金砖合作、全球治理、文明互鉴, at Huaqiao University, Collage of International Relations (17/11/2021).

“Order Building with Chinese Characteristics: Terraforming the Periphery through coordinated Economic Corridors”, held by 中巴合作国际会议, at Sichuan University, China Center for South Asian Studies (23-24/10/2021).

“A ‘Pariah’ on the Periphery? Understanding Beijing’s Strategic Patience on Post-Coup Myanmar”, held by 百年变局下的国际秩序与大国关系, at Nankai University, The Zhou Enlai School of Government (10/07/2021).

“The Illusion of the Sino-US-Europe Strategic Triangle: Reactions from Germany and the UK”, held by China-US-Europe: Global Power Triangles and the Remaking of the International Order, at The Confucius Institute of the Freie Universitat Berlin, European Institute for Asian Studies (22/10/2020).

“Coordinated Economic Corridors: An Analysis of China’s Extrinsic Performances as an Extension of Its Intrinsic Practices”, held by 33rd Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Association of Chinese Political Science, at the Association of Chinese Political Science and Middlebury College (19/10/2020). This paper was also presented at the 第十届复旦大学中国周边外交研讨会, held by Fudan University (12/11/2020).

“May’s Mayday: An Operational Code Analysis on the Rt. Hon. Theresa May’s Brexit Speeches (2016-2019)” held by Foreign Policy Analysis Beyond the West: A Chinese Perspective, at the Beijing University (16/11/2019).

“Russia’s Architecture of Hegemony: Christian Orthodox Subordination Strategies in Russia’s Peripheral Zone” held by International Studies Association (ISA), CEEISA-ISA2019, at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science (17/6/2019).

研究项目

Research Projects

Kingmakers: The Roles of Asia-Pacific Secondary States in the China-US Strategic Competition

造王者： 亚太次等国家在中美战略竞争中的角色

Contested Hierarchy: The China-US Hierarchical Competition and Asia-Pacific Bargaining Interactions

竞争中的等级体系：交易互动与中美两国在亚太地区等级体系重叠研究

教授课程

Teaching & Course Convenorship

南开大学周恩来政府管理学院 - 创新研究与训练 Research and Innovation (本科生 Undergraduate Level) - 中文

南开大学周恩来政府管理学院 - 国际关系史 History of Internaitonal Relations (硕士生 Postgraduate Level) - 英文

南开大学周恩来政府管理学院 - 中国外交政策 Chinese Foreign Policy (硕士生 Postgraduate Level) - 英文

南开大学周恩来政府管理学院 - 专业英语 Professional English (博士生 Doctoral Level) - 英文

南开大学-格拉斯哥大学联合研究生院 - 国际关系史 History of Internaitonal Relations (硕士生 Postgraduate Level) - 英文

南开大学-格拉斯哥大学联合研究生院 - 中国外交政策 Chinese Foreign Policy (硕士生 Postgraduate Level) - 英文

专题讲座系列

Special Lectures

Kingmakers: The Roles of Asia-Pacific Secondary States in the China-US Strategic Competition

Contested Hierarchy: The China-US Hierarchical Competition and Asia-Pacific Bargaining Interactions

The Illusion of the China-US-Europe Strategic Triangle

Unboxing the Sino-Russo Entente: Complex and Contested Leadership in Central Asia

China and the Malacca Dilemma: Through the Lens of Geopolitics and Geo-economics

The Balance of Power and Anarchy vs. Hegemony and Hierarchy

Soft Power: What It Is and What It Is Not

The Does and Don'ts of Publishing in International Journals - Social Sciences

Critical Thinking in Action: Tools for Rational Thought and Innovative Research

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