A Neighbor of Neighbors

Feng Zhang is Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer at Yale University's MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and Department of Political Science. A political scientist and interdisciplinary scholar, he specializes in China's foreign policy, Asian international relations, and international relations theory. He is the author of Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History (Stanford, 2015) and coauthor, with Richard Ned Lebow, of Taming Sino-American Rivalry (Oxford, 2020) and Justice and International Order: East and West (Oxford, 2022). His peer-reviewed work appears in leading disciplinary and area studies journals, and his commentary has featured in Foreign Affairs , Foreign Policy , and other international outlets. He has held academic positions at Tsinghua University, Murdoch University, the Australian National University, and the South China University of Technology. In 2024, he was a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center.