Chengzhi Yin

Chengzhi Yin was a CWP fellow for 2022-23. Previously he was a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at Boston College. His research interests include international security, grand strategy, and Chinese foreign policy. 

His dissertation title was: “Logic of Choice: China’s Alliance Balancing Strategies” Dissertation abstract: China uses alliance balancing strategies to divide adversarial alliances and bind its own. The dissertation explores the way China chooses its strategies, including coercion, accommodation, and a mixture of both. Using archives from China, the United States, and Russia, the dissertation conducts five case studies and identifies leverage and threat perception to determine China’s choice of these strategies.