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Zhong Yichen

Zhong Yichen

Assitant Professor

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Professional Experience

Lecturer in International Relations, Renmin University of China (Aug 2025 – )

ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Aston University (Oct 2023 – Dec 2024)

Lecturer in International Relations, Northumbria University (Sep 2022 – Jun 2023)

Education

PhD in Politics and International Relations, Aston University (Oct 2018 – Feb 2023)

MA in Public Policy (Distinction), University of Turin (Oct 2017 – Sep 2018)

MA in International Relations (2:1 Merit), University of Bath (Oct 2016 – Sep 2017)

LLB in International Politics (Distinction), University of International Relations (Sep 2012 – Jul 2016)

European Politics, European Union Decision-making, Justice and Home Affairs, EU-China Relations

Monograph:

- Zhong, Yichen. (2025). The Empowerment of EU Agencies in EU Border Management. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Empowerment-of-EU-Agencies-in-EU-Border-Management/Zhong/p/book/9781032656854?_ga=1636012681.1719273600.

Journal Articles:

- Zhong, Yichen (in press) ‘Tit-for-Tat Politics and the Deterioration of EU–China Relations 2019-2024’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations.

- Zhong, Yichen & Carrapico, Helena (2024) ‘Frontex goes global: A two-level experimentalist governance analysis of Frontex’s international action and its role within the externalisation of EU borders’, Contemporary European Politics, 2(1). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cep4.7.

- Zhong, Yichen (2024) ‘A Principal-Agent Analysis of Inter-agency Cooperation in EU Border Management’, Journal of European Integration, 47(1), pp. 23–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2024.2356843.

- Zhong, Yichen & Carrapico, Helena (2023) ‘The development of Frontex: integration through supranationalism’, European Politics and Society, 25 (2), pp. 233-248. https://doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2023.2244384.

- Zhong, Yichen (2023) ‘A Principal-Agent Historical Institutionalist Perspective on Frontex Joint Sea Operations’, International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 7 (4), pp 343-362. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMBS.2023.138610.

- Zhong, Yichen (2020) ‘The European Union and the South China Sea Dispute: A Case for Balancing with European Characteristics’, Asia-Pacific Journal of EU Studies, 18(3), pp. 85-110. https://kiss.kstudy.com/Detail/Ar?key=3840519.

Chinese-Language Publications

- Zhong, Yichen & Zhao, Yuting (in press) 金诺克改革后欧盟委员会的多维转型及其对欧盟治理的影响 [The Multidimensional Transformation of the European Commission after the Kinnock Reforms and its Implications for EU Governance], Chinese Journal of European Studies], Chinese Journal of European Studies, 43 (5), pp.1-29.

- Qian, Zhu & Zhong, Yichen (in press) 跨境互惠捐赠作为跨国主义的一种新联结方式——对在德中国新移民商会的实证研究为例 [International Reciprocal Donations: An Empirical Study of Chinese New Immigrant Business Associations in Germany], Chinese Overseas Review.

- Zhong, Yichen (2023) 欧盟委员会的扩权与欧盟对华政策的嬗变 [The Emergence of the European Commission as a Geopolitical Actor and Its Implications for EU-China Relations], Chinese Journal of European Studies, 43 (4), pp.1-29. http://ies.cass.cn/cn/periodical/202310/W020231009389778273518.pdf.

- Zhong, Yichen & Luo, Yingjie (2019) 欧洲一体化中的新公共管理改—以欧盟司法与内务领域的超国家政署化为例 [New Public Management in European Integration: A Case for Agencification in Justice and Home Affairs], Chinese Journal of European Studies, 37 (3), pp.129-154. http://ies.cass.cn/cn/periodical/202107/W020210705052457969137.pdf.

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