Weiqing SONG (宋衛清)

Books and Special Issue:

1. Song, W. & J. Wang (eds), (2019). The European Union in the Asia Pacific: Rethinking Europe’s Strategies and Policies, Manchester University Press, the UK.
2. Song, W. (2016). China’s Approach to Central Asia: the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, London, the UK: Routledge.

Journal Articles: (*) is used to denote the Corresponding Author

1. Sun, S. & W. Song*(2025). “Ontological security amidst fateful moments: adjusting Hong Kong’s place in Britain’s (post-)imperial biographical narrative”, Security Dialogue. (online first) pp. 1-19.
2. Sun, S. & W. Song*(2025). “Anglobal knowledge and reimagined geographies of provincialization: the Anglosphere as missing ‘area’ in area studies”, Globalizations, (online first) pp.1-19.
3. Zhou, M. & W. Song*(2025). “Making fun of foreign leaders in Chinese cyberspace: Understanding Zhihu users’ political entertainment in assigning posthumous names to US presidents”, Alternatives, Vol. 50(2) 485–49.
4. Song, W.* & X. Li (2024). “Eastern Opening” policy as political marketing: Populism and Hungary’s relations with China under the Orbán government”, Problems of Post-Communism. VOL. 71, NO. 6, 592–600.
5. Song, W.* & J. C. Velasco (2024). “Selling independent foreign policy amid the US–China rivalry: Populism and Philippine foreign policy under the Duterte government”, Pacific Review. 37(1), PP.118-146.
6. Song, W.*, Y. Ruan, & S. Sun (2023). “Twitter diplomacy and China’s strategic narrative during the early Covid-19 crisis”, Asian Perspective. 47(4), pp. 683-705.
7. Song, W.* & E. Fanoulis (2022). “Global perspectives on European Union public diplomacy: an introduction”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 31(1), PP. 1-7.
8. W. Song.* & R. Fürst (2024). “China’s bid for international leadership in Central and Eastern Europe: role conflict and policy responses”, International Relations, 38(4), 541-566.
9. Fanoulis, E. & W. Song* (2022). “The cooperation between EU and China: A post-liberal governmentality approach”, Review of International Studies, 48(2), 346-363.
10. S. Chan & W. Song* (2020), “Telling the China Story well: A Discursive Approach to the Analysis of Chinese Foreign Policy in the “Belt and Road”, Chinese Political Science Review, 5(3), 417-437.
11. Mak, G. & W. Song* (2019). “Transnational Norms and Governing Illegal Wildlife Trade in China and Japan: Elephant Ivory and Related Products under CITES’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 31:5, 373-391.
12. Song, W.* & R. B. Hall (2019). European Union’s Construction of International Identity via Strategic Partnerships: Associating and Social Distancing, Contemporary Politics, 25:2, 172-189.
13. Song, W. (2015). “Securitization of the ‘China Threat’ Discourse: a Poststructuralist Account”, the China Review, Vol. 15, No.1: pp. 145 – 169.
14. Song, W. (2014), “Interests, Power, and China’s Difficult Game in Shanghai Cooperation Organization”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 23, issue 85, 85 – 101. Reprinted as Chapter 30, in Liselotte Odgaard, Mathieu Duchâtel (eds) China’s Security, Volume 2: China’s Security Priorities in Asia, Routledge, 2018.
15. Song, W. * V. Della Sala (2008), “Eurosceptics and Europhiles in accord: the Creation of the European Ombudsman as an Institutional Isomorphism”, Policy and Politics, 36 (4): pp. 481- 495.