Yan Xuetong

Professor
Yán Xuétōng
阎学通
Yan in 2024
Born (1952-12-07) December 7, 1952 (age 71)
Tianjin, China
NationalityChinese
EducationPhD Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1992

MA International Politics, University of International Relations, 1986

BA English, Heilongjiang University, 1982
Occupation(s)Professor, dean
Political partyChinese Communist Party[1]

Yan Xuetong (born 7 December 1952) is a Chinese political scientist and serves as a distinguished professor and dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University. Yan is one of the major Chinese figures in the study of international relations (IR). He is the founder of 'moral realism', a neoclassical realist theoretical paradigm in IR theory. His moral realist theory is based on political determinism.[2]

In 2008, he was named as one of world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by the Foreign Policy.[3] He is the only political scientist listed as Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier during 2014–2017.[4]

  1. ^ "优秀共产党员阎学通：为学为教为师 越纯粹越坚持" [Outstanding Communist Party Member Yan Xuetong: To learn and teach as a teacher, the more pure the more insistent.]. Tsinghua University Party Committee Organization Department, Tsinghua University. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  2. ^ Yang, Xiao Alvin (2020-03-01). "Yan, Xuetong. Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers". Journal of Chinese Political Science. 25 (1): 161–163. doi:10.1007/s11366-019-09644-9. ISSN 1874-6357. S2CID 213047718.
  3. ^ "Top 100 Public Intellectuals".
  4. ^ "Yan Xuetong".