Name:

Daniel Thumpston

Email address:

335139@soas.ac.uk

Thesis title:

Legitimacy in China’s foreign policy: Reception of the Belt and Road Initiative in the European Union, 2013-2019 (working title)

Internal Supervisors

• Matthew Eagleton-Pierce
• Yuka Kobayashi

PhD Research

My research explores the discourses of Chinese state power.

• Politics of China
• IR theory
• IPE
• Power and legitimacy
• Nationalism
• Ideology
• Discourse