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D-Index
30
Citations
4003
World Ranking
1183
National Ranking
200

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Shaun Breslin is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and contributes to the field of social sciences, focusing primarily on political science and international relations. Their research encompasses a wide array of topics including China's socioeconomic reforms and governance, international development and aid, state capitalism and financial governance, international relations and foreign policy, Chinese history and philosophy, the global financial crisis and policies, and global trade and economics.

Their recent scholarly publications include:

  • Economic statecraft, geoeconomics and regional political economies (2023) published in The Pacific Review
  • International order transition and the UK's tilt to the 'Indo-Pacific' (2023) published in The Pacific Review
  • Introduction: A Xi change in policy? (2021) published in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
  • Introduction: China debates its global role (2020) published in The Pacific Review

Breslin has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Giuseppe Gabusi, Helen E. S. Nesadurai, Peter Burnham, Andreea Budeanu, and Zhongqi Pan. These collaborations span multiple publications and topics related to their fields of study.

Their work has appeared in a variety of academic venues, with the most frequent being:

  • The Pacific Review
  • Asian Perspective
  • The Developing Economies
  • Bristol University Press eBooks
  • Journal of European Integration

Breslin has also contributed to book publications, primarily through Bristol University Press eBooks, where multiple editions of "China Risen?" were published in 2021. Additionally, a version of "China Risen?" was published by Policy Press in the same year.

In terms of academic recognition, Breslin holds the title of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Studying Regions: Learning from the Old, Constructing the New

    Shaun Breslin;Richard Higgott

  • China and the Global Political Economy

    Shaun Breslin

  • New Regionalism in the Global Political Economy: Theories and Cases

    Shaun Breslin;Christopher W. Hughes;Nicola Phillips;Ben Rosamond

  • The ‘China model’ and the global crisis: from Friedrich List to a Chinese mode of governance?

    Shaun Breslin

  • Regions in comparative perspective

    Shaun Breslin;Richard A. Higgott;Ben Rosamond

  • China and the global order: signalling threat or friendship?

    Shaun Breslin

  • China's ‘new type of Great Power relations’: a G2 with Chinese characteristics?

    Jinghan Zeng;Shaun Breslin

  • Securing China's core interests: the state of the debate in China

    Jinghan Zeng;Yuefan Xiao;Shaun Breslin

  • Understanding China's regional rise: interpretations, identities and implications

    Shaun Breslin

  • China: developmental state or dysfunctional development?

    Shaun G Breslin

  • Online Chinese nationalism and China's bilateral relations

    Simon Shen;Shaun Breslin

  • China and the South : objectives, actors and interactions

    Shaun Breslin

  • Decentralisation, Globalisation and China's Partial Re-engagement with the Global Economy

    Shaun Breslin

  • power and production: rethinking china’s global economic role

    Shaun Breslin

  • China's Emerging Global Role: Dissatisfied Responsible Great Power

    Shaun Breslin

  • The politics of Chinese trade and the Asian financial crises: Questioning the wisdom of export-led growth

    Shaun Breslin

  • Comparative Government and Politics

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  • International relations of the Asia-Pacific

    Shaun Breslin;Richard A. Higgott

  • Reforming China’s embedded socialist compromise : China and the WTO

    Shaun Breslin

  • Who Governs and How? Non-State Actors and Transnational Governance in Southeast Asia

    Shaun Breslin;Helen E. S. Nesadurai

  • Comparative theory, China, and the future of East Asian regionalism(s)

    Shaun Breslin

  • China and the International Human Rights System

    Sonya Sceats;Shaun Breslin

  • Government-industry relations in China : a review of the art of the state

    Shaun Breslin

  • The soft notion of China's 'soft power'

    Shaun Breslin

  • China and the global economy

    Shaun Breslin;Carla Park Freeman;Simon Shen

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Higgott
Richard Higgott Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ben Rosamond
Ben Rosamond University of Edinburgh
Nicola Phillips
Nicola Phillips University of Adelaide
Ian Taylor
Ian Taylor University of St Andrews
Mark Beeson
Mark Beeson University of Technology Sydney

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