Department of Politics and International Studies

Lecturer in China and International Politics

SOAS China Institute

Academic Staff, SOAS China Institute

SOAS Japan Research Centre (JRC)

Academic Staff, Japan Research Centre

Centre for Law in Asia

Member

Name:

Dr Yuka Kobayashi

Email address:

yk37@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44(0) 20 7898 4736

Address:

SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Office No:

4425

Academic Support Hours:

By appointment

Biography

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) and Visiting Scholar at the World Trade Organizaton (WTO). 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.

Expert Witness to UK Parliament:

• Kobayashi, Yuka (2018) UK Parliament, Foreign Affairs Committee, Oral evidence for Inquiry into China and the International Rule Based System.
• Written Evidence for Expert Witness for Inquiry into China and the International Rule Based System [pdf]
• Summary of Kobayashi's submissions to the Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry on China and the international rule-based systems
• Kobayashi's contributions on Belt and Road Initiative, trade, WTO in the Final report are in China and the Rules-Based International System Sixteenth Report of Session 2017–19 [pdf]

Programmes Convened

• MSc Politics Of China (2019)
• MSc Politics of China (2018)

Modules Taught

• China And International Politics
• China and International Politics
• Globalising China
• Globalising East Asia
• International Relations of East Asia

PhD Students supervised

• Daniel Thumpston, Legitimacy in China’s foreign policy: Reception of the "Belt and Road Initiative" in the European Union, 2013-2020 (working title)
• Malaika I. Robinson, The US-China Trade War and the Politics of Rhetoric
• Richard Lamb, Geoeconomics and State-Firm Dynamics in China

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Available for

• TV
• Radio
• Press
• Briefings

Regional Expertise

• East Asia

Country Expertise

• China
• Japan

Languages

• Chinese Mandarin
• Japanese

Articles

Kobayashi, Yuka and King, Josephine (2022) 'Myanmar's strategy in the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor: a failure in hedging?'. International Affairs, (98) 3.

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

Schroeder, Heike and Kobayashi, Yuka (2021) 'Climate change governance: Responding to an existential crisis'. In: Letcher, Trevor, (ed.), The Impacts of Climate Change A Comprehensive Study of Physical, Biophysical, Social, and Political Issues. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp 479-489.

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) '“Creative compliance?” China’s compliance with the WTO—a case study of telecommunications services'. 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, Ka, (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.

Other

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

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