Yan Xuetong

Yan Xuetong was born in Tianjin in December 1952. He is among Tsinghua University's first batch of senior professors in the humanities and currently serves as honorary dean of the Institute of International Relations. From 2012 to 2023 he was secretary-general of the World Peace Forum, and in 1992 he received a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2011 he founded the theory of moral realism; in 2008 he was named among Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers, and in 2019 he was elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His works address international relations theory, international politics and China, international security, and the shifting of world power, combining the systematic quality of textbooks with the analytical depth of academic monographs. He has broad influence in Chinese international relations scholarship, and five of his works are included in this collection.