Chengzhi Yin

• 2024 Spring
  • PSC 322 International Security
  • IRP 400 Selected Topics - East Asia and the World
  • PSC 420 The East Asian Century? Opportunities and Challenges for the Region & the US
• 2023 Fall
  • IRP 200 Selected Topic - IR Research Methods
  • PSC 300 Selected Topics - Chinese Foreign Policy

Chengzhi Yin, assistant professor of political science, will teach classes in Chinese foreign policy and international relations research methods. Previously, Yin was a postdoctoral research scholar in Columbia University’s China and the World Program. Yin was also a lecturer at Wellesley College and a research fellow in Tufts University’s Rising Power Alliances Project.

Yin’s research interests include international relations theory, great power conflict, rising powers, Chinese foreign policy, Asian security and Cold War history. His dissertation “Accommodation or Coercion: China’s Choices of Alliance Balancing Strategies,” is the basis of one published peer-reviewed journal article and a working book manuscript. Yin’s graduate studies were supported by a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellowship from the University of Notre Dame’s International Security Center and a dissertation fellowship from Boston College’s Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences.

Yin earned a Ph.D. from Boston College in 2022. 

• Journal Articles
  • Yin, C., "Logic of Choice: China’s Binding Strategies toward North Korea, 1965-1970." Security Studies, 2022.
  • Yin, C., "Chinese Military Assistance to North Vietnam Revisited." Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 2019.
  • Yin, C., Dong, W., "Ziyouguojizhuyi de Xingshuai yu Meiguo Dazhanlue [Rise and Fall of Liberal Internationalism and U.S. Grand Strategy]." Waijiao Pinglun [Foreign Affairs Review], 2015.
  • Yin, C., Dong, W., "Mainland China Debates U.S. Pivot/Rebalancing to Asia." Issues and Studies, 2014.
• Journal Review
  • Yin, C., "Review of "The Chinese Advisory Groups in the First Indochina War: Their Formation, Evolution, and Disbandment," by Xiaohe Cheng, Cold War History 22, no. 22 (2022): 195-213." H-Diplo Article Review, 2022.

the 119th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting & Exhibition, "China’s Wedge Strategies toward the U.S.-South Korea Alliance" (September, 2023 - September, 2023)

International Studies Association Annual (ISA) Convention, "U.S. Unsuccessful Coercion in the South China Sea" (March, 2023)

Rising Power Coalitions conference, "American Wedge Strategies: Responding to China, Russia, and Their Alignments with Other States" (December, 2022)

China and the World Program, Columbia University, "China’s Alliance Balancing Strategies and The Korean Peninsula" (December, 2022)

Harvard Club of New York, "Shaping its Periphery: China’s Strategies and Its Sphere of Influence" (November, 2022)

118th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting & Exhibition, "Peer Pressure: Why do States Terminate Alliances?" (September, 2022)

International Studies Association Annual (ISA) Convention, "Peer Pressure: Why do States Terminate Alliances?" (April, 2022)

Vanguard-Better Relations Youth Global Exchange Conference 2022, "Evolvement, Change, Consistency in China’s Diplomatic Policy Since the Reform and Opening Era" (March, 2022)

117th American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition, "Choice of Binding: China’s Binding Strategies toward North Korea, 1965-1971" (September, 2021)

117th American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition, "Peer Pressure: Why do States Terminate Alliance?" (September, 2021)

2021 Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference, "Hold it Together: Why do States Terminate their Alliance Agreements?" (April, 2021)

116th American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition, "Free Riding in Bilateral Military Alliance: A Longitudinal Dyadic Approach" (September, 2020)

116th American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition, "Logic of Choice: How do States Decide Their Wedge Strategies?" (September, 2020)

78th Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference, "Logic of Choice: Wedge Strategies in the Case of Vietnam, 1975-1979" (April, 2020)

78th Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference, "Why do States Terminate Alliances?" (April, 2020)

International Studies Association (ISA) ISSS-IS annual Conference, "Carrot or Stick: China’s Wedge Strategies toward Thailand between 1965 and 1975" (October, 2019)

77th Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference, "Divided We Fall: China’s Choice of Counter-Wedge Strategies" (April, 2019)

Bradley Summer Grant, Boston College (2018)

Academic Scholarship, Perking University (2013)

Best thesis award in School of International Studies, Peking University (2013)

Jiangzhen Scholarship, Perking University (2013)