Vita

Sabine Mokry is a researcher in the research and transfer project Arms Control and Emerging Technologies. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Leiden University (Netherlands). For the 2023-2024 academic year, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program.  Before pursuing her PhD, she worked at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) as a research associate focusing on China’s foreign and security policy. She studied International Relations and China Studies at the University of Passau, Free University Berlin and at Nanjing University (China).
 

Research Profile | Current Projects

Sabine Mokry's research examines how domestic factors shape China's foreign and security policy. She focuses on great power competition, military cooperation between China and Russia and Chinese proposals for arms control. She is currently particularly interested in how military uses of new technologies, especially artificial intelligence, will affect strategic stability in Asia and between the USA and China.

Selected Publications

  • Mokry, Sabine. 2024.
    The Resurgence of Ideology under Xi Jinping and International Relations Scholarship in China.
    International Studies Perspectives : ekae014. DOI: 10.1093/isp/ekae014.
  • Mokry, Sabine. 2024.
    China’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric between Orchestration and Cacophony.
    The Pacific Review 37 (2): 360-387. DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2023.2175895.
  • Mokry, Sabine. 2023.
    Grand Strategy and the Construction of the National Interest: The Underpinnings of Sino-US Strategic Competition.
    International Politics DOI: 10.1057/s41311-023-00452-w.
  • Mokry, Sabine. 2022.
    What is Lost in Translation? Differences between Chinese Foreign Policy Statements and Their Official English Translations.
    Foreign Policy Analysis 18 (3): orac012. DOI: 10.1093/fpa/orac012.
  • Mokry, Sabine. 2017.
    Whose Voices Shape China’s Global Image? Links Between Reporting Conditions and Quoted Sources in News about China.
    Journal of Contemporary China 26 (107): 650-663. DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2017.1305480.