Kai He

Kai He (贺凯) is Professor of International Relations at Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia. He is currently an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (2017-2020). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (2009-2010). He is the author of Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific: Economic Interdependence and China's Rise (Routledge, 2009), Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific: Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior (co-authored with Huiyun Feng, Routledge, 2013), and China’s Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2016). His peer-refereed articles have appeared in European Journal of International Relations, European Political Science Review, Political Science Quarterly, Review of International Studies, Security Studies, International Politics, Cooperation and Conflict, Contemporary Politics, Asian Survey, The Pacific Review, Journal of Contemporary China, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Asian Security, Asian Perspective, Australian Journal of Political Science, Australian Journal of International Affairs, International Relations of the Asia Pacific, and Issues and Studies.

He has also contributed Op-Ed articles to major newspapers and magazines in the Asia-Pacific, such as The People’s Daily (人民日报China), Beijing Review (China), The Global Times (环球时报China), The China Review (Hong Kong), The Straits Times (Singapore), Today (Singapore), Lianhe Zaobao (联合早报Singapore), The Diplomat (www.thediplomat.com, Japan),  East Asia Forum (http://www.eastasiaforum.org, Australia), and World Politics Review (www.worldpoliticsreview.com, the USA).  

He received a Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2010), a Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Research Fellowship (2009-2010), an EAI fellowship (2011-2012) from the East Asia Institute in Seoul, an Asia Studies Fellowship (2012) from the East-West Center in Washington D.C., and a visiting fellowship (2014) from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. One current research project is funded by the MacArthur Foundation, USA.