Associate Professor Fengshi Wu

Associate Professor Fengshi Wu

Director

PhD in Political Science, University of Maryland, 2005

BA (first honor) in International Politics, Beijing University, 1999

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
Executive

Fengshi Wu is an Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. She is a world leading scholar in environmental politics, state-society relations, and global governance with the empirical focus on the Asia Pacific region (esp. East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia). Her recent research and teaching interests highlights the global transformation of the energy system rapidly accelerated by the challenges and geo-politics of climate change.

A graduate of the University of Maryland and Beijing University, she has been a Visiting Professor at the Harvard-Yenching Institute (2008-2009) and will be with the Sciences Po, Paris (in later 2024). She was elected to be one of the Graduate Fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences based on her PhD work which documented transnational activism and policy advocacy in environmental protection and public health. Her academic works have appeared in China Journal, Environmental Politics, VOLUNTAS, China Quarterly, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Journal of Contemporary China and International Studies Quarterly. She edited the book China’s Global Conquest for Resources (Routledge, 2017) on Chinese overseas investment in and acquisition of natural resources.

Prior to UNSW, she held academic positions at the University of Melbourne, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a recipient of research grants from leading higher education authorities in the United States, Hong Kong SAR, and Singapore. Currently, she is the inaugural Series Editor of Environment and Society in Asia, Amsterdam University Press, an Executive Board of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR). Since 2023, she has been the Chairperson of AACaPS.

Location
Level 1 Morven Brown Bldg.
  • Media | 2024
    Wu F, 2024, Chinese Premier’s visit to Australia: any shared aspirations beyond trade?, UNSW Newsroom, https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/06/Chinese-Premier-Li-Qiang-visit-to-Australia-any-shared-aspirations-beyond-trade
    Media | 2018
    Wu F, 2018, On the Doorstep of the Belt and Road Initiative,
    Media | 2018
    Wu F, 2018, Society-Driven Disaster Response: New Model from China?,
    Media | 2017
    Wu F, 2017, China’s Effective Greens and Gaps in Climate Activism,
    Media | 2017
    Wu F, 2017, From Paris to Beijing: China, Next Champion on Climate Change?,
    Media | 2014
    Wu F, 2014, Protests in Hong Kong,

April 2024: Australia Critical Minerals Strategy amid U.S.-China Geopolitical Rivalry, https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/australias-critical-minerals-strategy-amid-us-china-geopolitical-rivalry

March 2024: China Changing Track on Water Politics, https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/authors/fengshi-wu

May 2018: China and Global Refugee Crisis, https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/2780670/Research-Brief-No-13.pdf

2018: On the Doorstep of the Belt and Road Initiative, http://www.asiaglobalonline.hku.hk/doors

My Research Supervision

[As primary and joint-primary supervisor]

Alya Triska Sutrisno, Political Ecology of Land Used Change: The Case of Coal Mining in Sumatra, Indonesia

Qian Qin, China's Foreign Aid

Ricci German, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Latin America

Jeon Sohui, Diversified Environmental Transition: A Comparative Study of Forestry and Fishery in South Korea and Taiwan

Mahdokht Pazoki, China's Normative Rise through Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence Policies

Iqra Riaz, Preventing Intimate Partner Violence in Pakistan

[As co-supervisor]

Altynay Kozhabekova, Middle power behavior in the presence of multiple great powers. Kazakhstan's multi-vector foreign policy: engaging with the great powers

Apei Song, State, Community, and Self: Chinese Biological Citizenship Project and the Identity Management of Drug Users

Yunkang Liu, Development and Transformation of Mainland Southeast Asia (Mekong) Sub-region from the Cold War to a New Era: China's Role and Strategy in Comparative Perspectives

My Teaching

Introduction to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPEC1001)

Qualitative Research for Social and Political Problems (ARTS2852)

Global Environmental Politics (ARTS3818)