Dr. XUE Chen, joined in Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) in 1994, is Assistant Research Fellow of International Strategic Studies, and fellow of Center for Maritime and Polar Region Studies, SIIS. Before engaged in strategic and maritime security studies, he worked on Asia-Pacific and American Studies at the SIIS. As a student of IR for more than 20 years, he has been focusing on the Korean Study and maritime security with Chinese and English publications and policy reports, and won a number of social scientific awards in China. His representative publications include Non-traditional Security and Supply of International Public Good: On “China’s Responsibility” and Practice of “Harmonious World” (World Economy and Politics, Beijing, Mar. 2009), pp. 62-69; Social Psychology, Misperception, and Transition and Enforcement of US Perception on National Security: Taking the September 11th and Iraq War as Two Cases (World Economy and Politics, Beijing, Dec. 2006), pp. 7-15; Perception Change with Asia-Pacific Security after the 9/11 (Cai Jianguo ed., The 21st Century East Asia: Opportunities, Challenges and Innovations, Shanghai, 2004), pp. 28-37; Situations and Multilateral Security Mechanism in Northeast Asia: The Status Quo and Prospect (Fellowship Paper 6, Japan Institute of International Affairs, 2001), and others. He is co-translator of Chalmers Johnson’s The Sorrows of Empire 2005, and active with commentaries on East Asia security affairs and China’s peripheral policy with major newspapers and TV programs, such as the Phoenix TV and the English channel of China Central Television.

Dr. XUE Chen, Bachelor of history, got his MA on International Politics at SIIS in 1999, and Ph.D. of Fudan University in 2011. He went to SAIS Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, Johns Hopkins University, an one-year postgraduate education program, in 1997; and recruited as visiting fellow of Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) in 2000.  In 2006, 2011, and 2012, he was invited by the US Department of State as presenter of DOS sponsored Symposium of Northeast Asia Security (SNEAS). He was also invited by the US Department of State as participant of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) in February 2012. In 2012 and 2015, Dr. Xue was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROK to visit major think tanks in Korea. In April 2016, he participated a 5-week Advanced Security Cooperation seminar (ASC 16-1) sponsored by the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) of US Department of Defense in Hawaii. Dr. Xue Chen is also a 2017-18 visiting fellow of Korean Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS) and conducted a study on sanctions against the DPRK at the China Policy Institute of Ajou University, Republic of Korea.