My current research interests and recent research projects:

• International relations of East Asia: a post-LIO update.

• China's changing relations with the liberal international order: authority and order in world politics (project published: China and the Liberal International Order, Roots of A plural World Order, Routledge, 2026)

• State building and nation building in modern East Asia: contemporary political change in East Asian states (project published: Political Order in modern East Asian States, Routledge, 2022).

• International relations of East Asia: structural, institutional and civilizational dynamics in the shaping of international order in East Asia (project published: International Relations of East Asia, Structures, Institutions and International Order. Macmillan, 2019).