Xuechen Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4096646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xuechen Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xuechen |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0046-8012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
China's Identity Construction in Global Data Governance
As data governance becomes a central arena for normative contestation and global standard-setting, China's state-centric governance model has emerged as a third paradigm alongside the US's market-oriented model and the EU's rights-based data protection regime. This study argues that prevailing interpretations portraying China as an authoritarian challenger to the liberal order overlook its domestic context, developmental imperatives, and the rela…
The regime complex for digital trade in Asia and China’s engagement
The rapid development of information and communication technologies over the past two decades has resulted in profound transformations in traditional economic and trade activities, leading to the scaling of digital trade across the Asian region and beyond. Drawing on the conceptual framework of the regime complex, this article seeks to delineate the main features of regional digital trade governance in the Asian region and China’s engagement with…
Geopolitics and Transnational Data Governance
This editorial introduces a thematic issue that examines the geopolitics of transnational data governance through interdisciplinary perspectives. It explores how data governance—once a technocratic concern—has become a core domain of geopolitical rivalry and statecraft. Contributions in this issue highlight the tensions between data sovereignty and transnational flows, great power rivalry in transnational data governance, the growing importance o…
Multirelational Collaborative Filtering for Global Graph Neural Networks to Mine Evolutional Social Relations
Due to the unstable and complex social network environment, the sole user–item interaction data become insufficient for generating precise recommendations. However, too much emphasis on user–item interactions prevents the discovery of internal connections among them, such as trustworthy user relations. In this work, we have integrated the collaborative and the sequential relations into an end-to-end graph neural network (GNN) simultaneously and p…
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine
Strategic narratives have become an important tool with which states define their geopolitical reality and shape the types of foreign policy decisions that emerge. In order to build a more favourable international environment, China has deployed substantial resources to disseminate its strategic narratives and communicate its role, identity and vision and legitimise Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule. Despite the obvious importance of narratives …
Norm diffusion in cyber governance
In light of China's growing weight as a technological power in the international arena, an increasing body of literature is dedicated to conceptualizing China as a nascent norm-shaper in global cyber governance. However, a nuanced investigation into the process of China's norm diffusion in cyber governance has been lacking. Drawing on the latest advancements from norm diffusion theory, this study provides a nuanced understanding of the complex an…
Analysing the EU’s collective securitisation moves towards China
Building resilient supply chains in uncertain times
Different Shades of Norms
In order to better capture the dynamics of global cyber governance, it is important to go beyond the established West vs. non-West dichotomy in the scholarly literature and thus develop a more nuanced understanding of the variations of cyber governance norms and approaches within and beyond the traditional Western camp, as well as to take into account the role of regional organisations in reshaping the normative framework of cyber governance. Ind…
Contesting Western and Non-Western Approaches to Global Cyber Governance beyond Westlessness
The power shift from West to East has engendered an increasingly confrontational and competitive multipolar system in cyberspace governance. The West has to confront the real possibility of its decline in the face of the rising influence of the non-Western world, as shown in the intensive discussions over ‘Westlessness’ at the 2020 Munich Security Conference. In order to address scholarly concerns around cyberspace governance in a digitalised wor…
Role enactment and the contestation of global cybersecurity governance
This research seeks to unpack the development of the EU as a security actor in cyberspace. Drawing on the theoretical approach of role theory, this article shows that the EU’s role in cyberspace should be understood in relationality to the other poles. On the one hand, the declining hegemonic role of the US in cyberspace as well as the divergence between the US and the EU with regard to cybersecurity governance has made the EU more aware of the n…
Bridging Normative and Market Power Europe
The past two decades have witnessed a tremendous increase in the scholarly attention paid to the European Union (EU)’s external relations as well as the nature of the union’s role in world politics. With an aim to contribute to the EU-as-a-power debate, this research explores how EU economic and market-related norms and policies have been promoted and received by taking the EU’s relations with Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as an …
Understanding the EU’s changing trade policy strategy towards the Asia-Pacific region from a role-theory perspective
The past decade has witnessed an increasing nexus between the European Union’s trade and foreignpolicy toward Asia. On the one hand, the EU has sought to deepen economic cooperation with its keyAsian partners since this region has become central to the EU’s economic growth. On the other hand,the EU has increasingly used its trade policy as a foreign policy tool to pursue its geopolitical interestsin Asia. Against this background, the paper seeks …
Globalism or Nationalism? The Paradox of Chinese Official Discourse in the Context of the Covid-19 Outbreak
Globalism or Nationalism? The Paradox of Chinese Official Discourse in the Context of the Covid-19 Outbreak
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine
Strategic narratives have become an important tool with which states define their geopolitical reality and shape the types of foreign policy decisions that emerge. In order to build a more favourable international environment, China has deployed substantial resources to disseminate its strategic narratives and communicate its role, identity and vision and legitimise Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule. Despite the obvious importance of narratives …
Norm diffusion in cyber governance
In light of China's growing weight as a technological power in the international arena, an increasing body of literature is dedicated to conceptualizing China as a nascent norm-shaper in global cyber governance. However, a nuanced investigation into the process of China's norm diffusion in cyber governance has been lacking. Drawing on the latest advancements from norm diffusion theory, this study provides a nuanced understanding of the complex an…
Role enactment and the contestation of global cybersecurity governance
This research seeks to unpack the development of the EU as a security actor in cyberspace. Drawing on the theoretical approach of role theory, this article shows that the EU’s role in cyberspace should be understood in relationality to the other poles. On the one hand, the declining hegemonic role of the US in cyberspace as well as the divergence between the US and the EU with regard to cybersecurity governance has made the EU more aware of the n…
Understanding the EU’s changing trade policy strategy towards the Asia-Pacific region from a role-theory perspective
The past decade has witnessed an increasing nexus between the European Union’s trade and foreignpolicy toward Asia. On the one hand, the EU has sought to deepen economic cooperation with its keyAsian partners since this region has become central to the EU’s economic growth. On the other hand,the EU has increasingly used its trade policy as a foreign policy tool to pursue its geopolitical interestsin Asia. Against this background, the paper seeks …
Globalism or Nationalism? The Paradox of Chinese Official Discourse in the Context of the Covid-19 Outbreak
Analysing the EU’s collective securitisation moves towards China
Building resilient supply chains in uncertain times
Different Shades of Norms
In order to better capture the dynamics of global cyber governance, it is important to go beyond the established West vs. non-West dichotomy in the scholarly literature and thus develop a more nuanced understanding of the variations of cyber governance norms and approaches within and beyond the traditional Western camp, as well as to take into account the role of regional organisations in reshaping the normative framework of cyber governance. Ind…
Contesting Western and Non-Western Approaches to Global Cyber Governance beyond Westlessness
The power shift from West to East has engendered an increasingly confrontational and competitive multipolar system in cyberspace governance. The West has to confront the real possibility of its decline in the face of the rising influence of the non-Western world, as shown in the intensive discussions over ‘Westlessness’ at the 2020 Munich Security Conference. In order to address scholarly concerns around cyberspace governance in a digitalised wor…
Role enactment and the contestation of global cybersecurity governance
This research seeks to unpack the development of the EU as a security actor in cyberspace. Drawing on the theoretical approach of role theory, this article shows that the EU’s role in cyberspace should be understood in relationality to the other poles. On the one hand, the declining hegemonic role of the US in cyberspace as well as the divergence between the US and the EU with regard to cybersecurity governance has made the EU more aware of the n…
Bridging Normative and Market Power Europe
The past two decades have witnessed a tremendous increase in the scholarly attention paid to the European Union (EU)’s external relations as well as the nature of the union’s role in world politics. With an aim to contribute to the EU-as-a-power debate, this research explores how EU economic and market-related norms and policies have been promoted and received by taking the EU’s relations with Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as an …
Multirelational Collaborative Filtering for Global Graph Neural Networks to Mine Evolutional Social Relations
Due to the unstable and complex social network environment, the sole user–item interaction data become insufficient for generating precise recommendations. However, too much emphasis on user–item interactions prevents the discovery of internal connections among them, such as trustworthy user relations. In this work, we have integrated the collaborative and the sequential relations into an end-to-end graph neural network (GNN) simultaneously and p…
Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine
Strategic narratives have become an important tool with which states define their geopolitical reality and shape the types of foreign policy decisions that emerge. In order to build a more favourable international environment, China has deployed substantial resources to disseminate its strategic narratives and communicate its role, identity and vision and legitimise Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule. Despite the obvious importance of narratives …
Norm diffusion in cyber governance
In light of China's growing weight as a technological power in the international arena, an increasing body of literature is dedicated to conceptualizing China as a nascent norm-shaper in global cyber governance. However, a nuanced investigation into the process of China's norm diffusion in cyber governance has been lacking. Drawing on the latest advancements from norm diffusion theory, this study provides a nuanced understanding of the complex an…
The regime complex for digital trade in Asia and China’s engagement
The rapid development of information and communication technologies over the past two decades has resulted in profound transformations in traditional economic and trade activities, leading to the scaling of digital trade across the Asian region and beyond. Drawing on the conceptual framework of the regime complex, this article seeks to delineate the main features of regional digital trade governance in the Asian region and China’s engagement with…
Geopolitics and Transnational Data Governance
This editorial introduces a thematic issue that examines the geopolitics of transnational data governance through interdisciplinary perspectives. It explores how data governance—once a technocratic concern—has become a core domain of geopolitical rivalry and statecraft. Contributions in this issue highlight the tensions between data sovereignty and transnational flows, great power rivalry in transnational data governance, the growing importance o…
China's Identity Construction in Global Data Governance
As data governance becomes a central arena for normative contestation and global standard-setting, China's state-centric governance model has emerged as a third paradigm alongside the US's market-oriented model and the EU's rights-based data protection regime. This study argues that prevailing interpretations portraying China as an authoritarian challenger to the liberal order overlook its domestic context, developmental imperatives, and the rela…
Political science (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · China (6 works) · Corporate governance (6 works) · International trade (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works)