Raymond Wang

Raymond Wang is the Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies. His research examines the strategies and tools rising powers use to shape international order, with a focus on the rise of China. Wang explores this question through three research streams. The first stream is his ongoing book project that examines how China shapes international order by commandeering existing rules, rather than overturning them or building alternative institutions. The second examines the drivers and effectiveness of China’s economic statecraft, which Beijing has increasingly wielded to further its goals. The final stream studies how China sustains its capability for competition through indigenous technological development, especially those with military applications. His research has been supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Hans J. Morgenthau Fellowship, Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and MIT’s Center for International Studies.

Wang completed his PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before his professorship at BU, he was a Columbia-Harvard China and the World Postdoctoral Fellow, and a Research Fellow at the International Security Program at the Belfer Center.