Sinan Chu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4380460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sinan Chu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sinan |
| FAMILY NAME | Chu |
| SIGNATURE | CHU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Institute for Global and Area Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9518-1953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Legitimation Dynamics of Emerging Power-Led Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
This study examines how global governance institutions (GGIs) led by emerging powers cope with legitimacy challenges under contemporary multipolarity. We contend that multiple, inconsistent, if not conflicting, beliefs and normative expectations are relevant in the legitimation dynamics of emerging power-led GGIs. To account for the diverse positionalities and perspectives of their legitimacy audiences, we offer a tripartite framework based on Da…
Introduction to Special Issue: Belt and Road Initiative – 10 Years on
It has been over a decade since the emergence of what is now best known as the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI). This Special Issue, a decade after the BRI was launched, highlights the immense complexity not only of the idea itself but also of China's global influence and the varied attitudes and responses towards it. We hope that these studies, with their diverse approaches and evidence bases, contribute to enriching the expanding literature on …
In the Eyes of the Beholders: The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions under Multipolarity
Multipolarity has ambiguous implications for the legitimacy of global governance institutions (GGIs). Rising powers’ capacity to contest established powers’ agendas prima facie increases the GGIs’ legitimacy by reducing power asymmetries between the North and South. However, according to some, the rise of new powers has contributed to the GGIs’ poor performance and inadequate representativeness. We investigate how global publics evaluate the legi…
Fantastic Theories and Where to Find Them: Rethinking Interlocutors in Global IR
How can we appreciate non-Western agency in theorising world politics without reintroducing parochialism and exceptionalism, thus reproducing the very problem that motivated global international relations (IR) in the first place? In this article, I explore an alternative approach to engaging with non-Western IR theories, which I refer to as the embedded observer approach. First, taking the scholarship on Chinese IR as an example, I argue that the…
The paradox of competing connectivity strategies in Asia
Competing connectivity strategies are a core component of geopolitics in the twenty-first century – from China’s Belt and Road Initiative to Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy. To demonstrate the multifaceted consequences of the new multiplicity of connectivity strategies, we propose a conceptual distinction between two forms of competition among connectivity projects: the commonly addressed horizontal competition between central state-d…
Whither Chinese IR? The Sinocentric subject and the paradox of Tianxia-ism
This essay critically assesses the Tianxia Theories, a line of indigenous International Relations (IR) theorizing in China organized around the concept of Tianxia (‘all-under-heaven’). My goal is to tackle a seemingly prevalent issue among non-Western IR theories, that is, the indigenous scholars' subservience to state cues and often uncritical attitude toward their own ethnocentrism. To that end, I strategically target a recent contribution to t…
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Whither Chinese IR? The Sinocentric subject and the paradox of Tianxia-ism
This essay critically assesses the Tianxia Theories, a line of indigenous International Relations (IR) theorizing in China organized around the concept of Tianxia (‘all-under-heaven’). My goal is to tackle a seemingly prevalent issue among non-Western IR theories, that is, the indigenous scholars' subservience to state cues and often uncritical attitude toward their own ethnocentrism. To that end, I strategically target a recent contribution to t…
Fantastic Theories and Where to Find Them: Rethinking Interlocutors in Global IR
How can we appreciate non-Western agency in theorising world politics without reintroducing parochialism and exceptionalism, thus reproducing the very problem that motivated global international relations (IR) in the first place? In this article, I explore an alternative approach to engaging with non-Western IR theories, which I refer to as the embedded observer approach. First, taking the scholarship on Chinese IR as an example, I argue that the…
In the Eyes of the Beholders: The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions under Multipolarity
Multipolarity has ambiguous implications for the legitimacy of global governance institutions (GGIs). Rising powers’ capacity to contest established powers’ agendas prima facie increases the GGIs’ legitimacy by reducing power asymmetries between the North and South. However, according to some, the rise of new powers has contributed to the GGIs’ poor performance and inadequate representativeness. We investigate how global publics evaluate the legi…
The paradox of competing connectivity strategies in Asia
Competing connectivity strategies are a core component of geopolitics in the twenty-first century – from China’s Belt and Road Initiative to Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy. To demonstrate the multifaceted consequences of the new multiplicity of connectivity strategies, we propose a conceptual distinction between two forms of competition among connectivity projects: the commonly addressed horizontal competition between central state-d…
Graduate Students and Scholars Funded
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Whither Chinese IR? The Sinocentric subject and the paradox of Tianxia-ism
This essay critically assesses the Tianxia Theories, a line of indigenous International Relations (IR) theorizing in China organized around the concept of Tianxia (‘all-under-heaven’). My goal is to tackle a seemingly prevalent issue among non-Western IR theories, that is, the indigenous scholars' subservience to state cues and often uncritical attitude toward their own ethnocentrism. To that end, I strategically target a recent contribution to t…
The paradox of competing connectivity strategies in Asia
Competing connectivity strategies are a core component of geopolitics in the twenty-first century – from China’s Belt and Road Initiative to Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy. To demonstrate the multifaceted consequences of the new multiplicity of connectivity strategies, we propose a conceptual distinction between two forms of competition among connectivity projects: the commonly addressed horizontal competition between central state-d…
Fantastic Theories and Where to Find Them: Rethinking Interlocutors in Global IR
How can we appreciate non-Western agency in theorising world politics without reintroducing parochialism and exceptionalism, thus reproducing the very problem that motivated global international relations (IR) in the first place? In this article, I explore an alternative approach to engaging with non-Western IR theories, which I refer to as the embedded observer approach. First, taking the scholarship on Chinese IR as an example, I argue that the…
In the Eyes of the Beholders: The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions under Multipolarity
Multipolarity has ambiguous implications for the legitimacy of global governance institutions (GGIs). Rising powers’ capacity to contest established powers’ agendas prima facie increases the GGIs’ legitimacy by reducing power asymmetries between the North and South. However, according to some, the rise of new powers has contributed to the GGIs’ poor performance and inadequate representativeness. We investigate how global publics evaluate the legi…
Legitimation Dynamics of Emerging Power-Led Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
This study examines how global governance institutions (GGIs) led by emerging powers cope with legitimacy challenges under contemporary multipolarity. We contend that multiple, inconsistent, if not conflicting, beliefs and normative expectations are relevant in the legitimation dynamics of emerging power-led GGIs. To account for the diverse positionalities and perspectives of their legitimacy audiences, we offer a tripartite framework based on Da…
Introduction to Special Issue: Belt and Road Initiative – 10 Years on
It has been over a decade since the emergence of what is now best known as the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI). This Special Issue, a decade after the BRI was launched, highlights the immense complexity not only of the idea itself but also of China's global influence and the varied attitudes and responses towards it. We hope that these studies, with their diverse approaches and evidence bases, contribute to enriching the expanding literature on …
Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · International Development and Aid (3 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Scholarship (3 works) · China (2 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works)