Amy King, Ph.D.

amy.king@anu.edu.au

The Australian National University

Country: Australia (Australian Capital Territory)

About Me:

I am a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, specialising on Chinese foreign and security policy, China-Japan relations, and the international relations and security of the Asia-Pacific region. I am concurrently an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and a Westpac Research Fellow engaged in a three-year research project examining China’s role in shaping the international economic order. I am also a research fellow with the Australia-Japan Research Centre, a research associate with the ANU's Graduate Research and Development Network on Asian Security (GRADNAS), and I serve on the Editorial Board of the East Asia Forum. I received my D.Phil in International Relations and M.Phil in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford, and have undertaken intensive language study and fieldwork in China, Japan and Taiwan over the past 15 years.For more information about my research and publications, please see my personal website.

Research Interests

Asian Politics

Foreign Policy

International Relations Theory

Economics-Security Nexus

East Asia Security

Cold War History

China-Japan Relations

Countries of Interest

China

Japan

My Research:

I currently hold a Westpac Research Fellowship and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship to investigate China's role in shaping the international economic order. This research program consists of two interrelated projects: a historical project that will provide the first comprehensive account of China’s role in shaping the post-World War II international economic order, through the lens of the Bretton Woods and Bandung conferences, held between 1944 and 1955; and a contemporary project that will examine the economic ideas and strategies underpinning 21st century Chinese initiatives like the Belt and Road Initiative.  My book, China-Japan Relations after World War Two: Empire, Industry and War, 1949-1971 (Cambridge University Press, 2016), examines the post-WWII rebuilding of economic ties between the People’s Republic of China and Japan. It explains how and why Japan became China’s most important economic partner in the aftermath of major war, and at a time when the two countries were still Cold War opponents. The book is based on hundreds of declassified documents from the Chinese Foreign Ministry Archive, gathered during extensive fieldwork in China between 2008 and 2012.For more information about my research and publications, please see my personal website.