Yu Tiejun is a professor at Peking University’s School of International Studies and president of the university’s Institute of International and Strategic Studies. He was a Fulbright visiting scholar at MIT’s security studies program (2018–19) and visiting scholar at Stanford University and Harvard University (2005–06) and studied at the University of Tokyo (1998–2000). Yu is executive editor in chief of China International Strategy Review and has written extensively on international security, East Asian international relations, and China’s foreign and defense policy. He was awarded Peking University’s Excellent Teaching Award and Distinguished Research Award in 2010 and 2017, respectively. Yu received his BA, MA, and PhD from Peking University.

CURRENT POSITIONS AND AFFILIATIONS

Peking University

Professor, School of International Studies, 2020-

Chair, Department of National Security, 2022-

President, Institute of International and Strategic Studies, 2022-

Director, Center for International Security and Peace Studies, 2020-

Executive Editor-in-Chief, China International Strategy Review, 2019-

PAST POSITIONS AND AFFILIATIONS

Peking University

Associate Professor, School of International Studies, 2003-2020

Assistant Professor, School of International Studies, 2000-2003

Vice President, Institute of International and Strategic Studies, 2014-2022

Assistant President, Institute of International and Strategic Studies, 2013-2014

Deputy Director, Center for International and Strategic Studies, 2012-2013

General Secretary, Center for International and Strategic Studies, 2007-2012

Deputy Director, Center for International Security and Peace Studies, 2012-2020

Shandong Finance Institute

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Intl Economics, 1990-1994

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in International Politics, School of International Studies, Peking University (2000)

Foreign Exchange Student at the University of Tokyo, Japan (1998-2000)

MA in International Politics, School of International Studies, Peking University (1997)

BA in International Politics, Department of International Politics, Peking University (1990)

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

China Policy Fellow and Visiting Scholar, APARC, Stanford University, Sept. 2024-Dec. 2024

Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Security Studies Program (SSP), MIT, 2018-2019

Visiting Associate Professor, The Faculty of Law, National Niigata University, Japan, 2012-2013

Adjunct Associate Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan, 2012-2016

Visiting Fellow, SWAMOS, Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, 2008

Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 2005-2006

Visiting Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, 2005

COURSES TAUGHT AT PEKING UNIVERSITY

International Relations and East Asian Security (Undergraduate Course)

International History (Undergraduate Course)

The History of International Political Thought (Undergraduate Course)

Northeast Asian Studies (MA Graduate Course)

International Security and Chinas National Defense (MA Graduate Course, in English)

National Security: Theory and Practice (Doctoral Graduate Course)

International Security and Strategic Studies (Doctoral Graduate Course)

Realist International Relations Theory (Doctoral Graduate Course)

U.S.-Japan Relations (Doctoral Graduate Course)

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Books

Shijie Zhuyao Guojia he Diqu de Guojia Anquan Yanjiu: Lishi, Lilun yu Shijian (National Security Studies in Major Countries and Areas of the World: History, Theory, and Practice), co-edited with Zhuang Junju, Beijing: Shehui Kexue Wenxian Chubanshe (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2024)

Zhongri Lishi Renshi Gongtong Yanjiu Baogao: Zhongri Zhanzheng Heyi Baofa (A Joint Research on China-Japanese Historical Perceptions: Why the Sino-Japanese War Broke Out), co-edited with Wang Chaoguang, Beijing: Shehui Kexue Wenxian Chubanshe (Social Sciences Academic Press, China, 2020)

Zhongri Anquan yu Fangwu Jiaoliu: Lishi, Xianzhuang yu Zhanwang (The Sino-Japanese Security and Defense Exchange: Past, Present, and Prospect), co-edited with Zhu Feng and Akiyama Masahiro, Beijing: Shijie Zhishi Chubanshe (World Affairs Press, 2012)

Translated Books (From English to Chinese)

Jack Snyder, Myths of Empire (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2007)

Arnold Wolfers, Discord and Collaboration: Essays on International Politics (Beijing: World Affairs Press, 2006)

Michael Armacost, Friends or Rivals? The Insider’s Account of U.S.-Japan Relations (Beijing: Xinhua Press, 1998)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Global Security Initiative: A Representation and Extension of the Overall View of National Security in the Sphere of International Security,” Jiaoxue yu Yanjiu (Teaching and Studies), No. 7, 2024.

“The Construction of National Security System and Capabilities in a Comparative Perspective,” Shijie Jingji yu Zhengzhi (World Economy and Politics), No. 3, 2024.

“Responding and Adaptation: The Evolution of Japan’s National Security Since the End of WWII,” Riben Xuekan (Japanese Studies), No. 4, 2023

“A Further Exploration of the Japanese Independent Garrison Unit in Manchuria,” Riben Qinhua Nanjing Datusha Yanjiu (Journal of Japanese Invasion of China and Nanjing Massacre), No. 4, 2023

“Shield of Hegemony: National Security Studies in the United States during the Cold War,” Guoji Zhengzhi Yanjiu (The Journal of International Studies), No. 5, 2022

“Major Country, the Asia, and the United Front: Implications for the Construction of Human Security Community,” Guojia Anquan Yanjiu (China Security Studies), No. 4, 2022

“Based in China, Facing the World: Constructing a Disciplinary System of National Security with Chinese Characteristics,” co-authored with Tang Shiqi and Qihaotian, Guojia Anquan Yanjiu (China Security Studies), No. 1, 2022

“Area Studies with Japanese Characteristics and Its Implications for China,” Guoji Zhengzhi Yanjiu (The Journal of International Studies), No. 5, 2018

"Testfall koreanische Habinsel: Chinas Politik zwischen den beiden Koreas und den USA," Welt Trends (Germany), Nr. 127, Mai 2017

“Japan’s Strategic Status, Orientation and the Construction of a New Type of Sino-Japanese Relations,” (co-authored with Zhang Tuosheng et al) in China International Strategy Review 2015, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2016

“Crisis Management in the Current Sino-Japanese Relations,” in China International Strategy Review 2014, Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 2015

“Meiguo de Tongmeng Zhanlue” (US’s Alliance Strategy), Chap. 7, in Wang Jisi and Niu Jun, eds., Dizao Baquan: Lengzhan Shiqi de Meiguo Zhanlue yu Juece (Forging Hegemony: Strategy and Decision-making of the US in the Cold War Era), Shanghai Remin Chubanshe (Shanghai People’s Press), 2013.

“An Evaluation on the Minerva Initiative of the US Department Defense,” co-authored with Qi Haotian, Guoji Zhengzhi Yanjiu (International Politics Quarterly), Vol.34, No. 1 (March 2013)

"The Western Master and Bible of War: Clausewitz and His On War in China," in Reiner Prommerin ed., Clausewitz Goes Global: Carl von Clausewitz in the 21st Century, Berlin, Miles Verlag, 2011

“Types of Knowledge Beneficial to Foreign Policy-making,” Guoji Zhengzhi Yanjiu (International Politics Quarterly), Vol.30, No. 3 (July 2009)

“A Review of International Strategic Studies in American Universities,” American Studies Quarterly, Vol.23, No. 2 (June 2009)

“Decoding the Princeton Report,” Zhongguo Guoji Zhanlue Pinglun 2008 (Chinese International Strategic Review 2008), Beijing: Shijie Zhishi Chubanshe (World Affairs Press, 2008)

“Several Features of Strategic Studies in American Universities,” Guoji Zhengzhi Yanjiu (International Politics Quarterly), No. 4, 2007

“Problems in and Reflections on the Studies of International Relations in China,” Jiaoxue yu Yanjiu (Teaching and Studies), No. 11, 2005

“Military Alliances in East Asia,” in Yan Xuetong and Jin Dexiang, eds. Peace and Security in East Asia (Beijing: Shishi Press, 2005)

“International Relations Theory and INGO” in Wang Jie et al. ed. INGO in Global Governance (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2004).

“International Relations Theory and Sino-Japan Historical Problem,” Taipingyang Xuebao (The Pacific Journal), No. 3, 2003

“Power and Ideas: The Rise and Fall of the ‘Revisionist’ View on Japan in the United States.” Meiguo Yanjiu (American Studies Quarterly), Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 2002).

“Offensive Realism, Defensive Realism and Neo-Classical Realism,” Shijie Jingji yu Zhengzhi (World Economy and Politics), May 2000

“Alliance Theory in International Politics: Evolution and Debate,” in Ouzhou (Journal of Europe) Vol.17, No. 5 (Oct. 1999)

Other Publications (Selected)

“Trump’s China Policy Has Not Come Yet,” March 14, 2025, https://www.cfr.org/councilofcouncils/global-memos/president-trumps-address-congress-global-reactions

“National Security Studies in the Shadow of the Over-securitization of China-U.S. Relations,” in Scott Kennedy, ed., U.S.-China Scholarly Recoupling: Advancing Mutual Understanding in an Era of Intense Rivalry, Washington, DC: Center for Strategic International Studies, 2024

“Taking the UDHR as a Common Basis of Building a Human International Order,” December 8, 2023, Reflecting on and Recharging the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after Seventy-Five Years | Council of Councils (cfr.org)

“Zongti Guojia Anquan Guan: Tuijin Guojia Anquan Tixi he Nengli Xiandaihua,” (“Overall View of National Security: Improving the Modernization of the System and Capabilities of China’s National Security,”) Beijingdaxue Xiaobao (Peking University Gazette), April 20, 2023.

"A Pressing Need for Diplomacy," February 22, 2023, The Invasion That Shook the World | Council of Councils (cfr.org)

US-Soviet Top-Down Trust-Building: Lessons for the US-China Relationships, Report of Asia Pacific Leadership Network (APLN), Seoul, November 2022, Yu-Tiejun-US-Soviet-Top-Down-Trust-Building-2.pdf (apln.network)

“Deeply Remembering Mr. Ezra Vogel,” Huanqiu Wang (Global Time), February 3, 2021, https://opinion.huanqiu.com/article/41m0u1WGFw5

“Keeping U.S.-China Strategic Competition Under Control,” November 12, 2020,  https://www.cfr.org/article/biden-and-world-what-us-presidential-transition-means

“Avoiding a New U.S.-China Cold War,” September 14, 2020,  https://www.cfr.org/article/un-seventy-five-how-make-it-relevant-again

“East Asia: A Year of Destabilization,” Reginal Security Outlook 2017, CSACP, 2017

“China Must Balance Power and Cooperation,” August 23, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/08/23/is-playing-tough-in-chinas-interest/china-must-balance-power-and-cooperation

“The Significance of the Korean Peninsula in Xi Jinping’s Global Strategy,” in YU Tiejun et al., Chinese Perspectives Towards the Korean Peninsula in the Aftermath of North Korea’s Fourth Nuclear Test, The Stimson Center, June 2016

HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND AWARDS

China Policy Fellowship, APARC, Stanford University, 2024

Xingzheng Global Foundation Excellent Teacher Ethics Award, Peking University, 2024

Excellent Supervisor of Undergraduate Graduation Thesis, Peking University, 2023

Excellent Teaching Award (First Rate, Collectively), Peking University, 2021

Excellent Supervisor of Undergraduate Academic Training, Peking University, 2021

Fulbright Scholarship, 2018-2019

Huang Tingfang-Xinhe Distinguished Scholar Award, Peking University, 2017

Distinguished Research Award, Peking University, 2013-2014

Distinguished Teaching Award, Peking University, 2009-2010

Gang Song Teaching Award, Peking University, 2002

Excellent Undergraduate Advisor Award, Peking University, 2000-2004

The Nippon Foundation Scholarship, 1994-2000