Yuka Kobayashi

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

Dr Yuka Kobayashi (LL.B Kyoto, MPhil, DPhil Oxon) is Lecturer/Assistant Professor in China and International Politics at SOAS, University of London, and Visiting Research Professor at Nankai University (China). Prior to joining SOAS, she was a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. After receiving a LL.B. (specialisation in Public International Law) from Kyoto University, she studied Mandarin and Chinese International Politics at Nankai University and then obtained her M.Phil. and D.Phil. at the University of Oxford.

Her research interests include International Relations of China, International Law, Trade and Investment (Belt and Road Initiative/WTO/FDI), Human Rights and Climate Change/Energy. She has advised various governments, think-tanks and international organisations on these subjects. Kobayashi was an expert witness for the UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee on China and the International Economic Order.

#china #international-relations #international-politics #international-law #human-rights #climate-change

< Articles >

Dave, Bhavna and Kobayashi, Yuka (2018) 'China's silk road economic belt initiative in Central Asia: economic and security implications'. Asia Europe Journal, (16) 3, pp 267-281.

< Book Chapters >

Kobayashi, Yuka (2016) ''Renquan' - Chinese Human Rights: An' Import' from the West or a Chinese 'Export'?'. In: König, Lion and Chaudhuri, Bidisha, (eds.), The Politics of the Other in India and China: Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts. Oxon; New York: Routledge, pp 179-192.
Kobayashi, Yuka (2015) 'India in Climate Change - the view from Japan via China'. In: Sullivan, Kate, (ed.), Competing Visions of India in World Politics: India's Rise Beyond the West. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 49-65.
Kobayashi, Yuka (2013) 'China's Creative Compliance in the WTO'. In: Zeng, Ka and Liang, Wei, (eds.), China and Global Trade Governance: China's First Decade in the World Trade Organization. Oxon; New York: Routledge, pp 103-125.
Kobayashi, Yuka (2007) 'The Impact of the World Trade Organization on China's Trade Policy: A Case Study on the Telecommunications Sector'. In: Zeng, K., (ed.), China's Foreign Trade Policy. The New Constituencies. London: Routledge, pp 143-166.
Kobayashi, Yuka (2005) 'The "Troubled Modernizer": Three Decades of Chinese Environmental Policy and Diplomacy'. In: Harris, P. G., (ed.), Confronting Environmental Change in East and Southeast Asia: Eco-Politics, Foreign Policy, and Sustainable Development.. Tokyo: United Nations University Press and Earthscan, pp 87-101.
Kobayashi, Yuka (2003) 'Navigating Between "Luxury" and "Survival" Emissions : tensions in China's multilateral and bilateral climate change diplomacy'. In: Harris, Paul, (ed.), Global Warming and East Asia: The Domestic and International Politics of Climate Change. London; New York: Routledge, pp 86-108.

< Monographs and Working Papers >

Kobayashi, Yuka and Sanchez, Amaia (2017) Minilateralism à la Chine: Strategic Responsibility in Climate Change and Global Finance. Kings College London: Lau China Institute Policy Paper Series; Vol 1. Issue 6.
Kobayashi, Yuka (2006) Rule of Law in China: Chinese Law and Business: The Impact of the World Trade Organization on the Chinese Legal System. Oxford: The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society; The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford.

< Others >

Kobayashi, Yuka (2018) 'US-China trade: China is building bridges with the world while the US puts up walls' The Conversation.

< Contact >

kobayashi.yuka (at) gmail.com
+44 (0)20 7898 4736
School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom