ZHANG Feng is a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy. He specializes in China’s foreign policy, Asian international relations, and international relations theory. He is the author of Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History (Stanford, 2015). He is completing a new book on China’s policy toward Afghanistan since 1949. He coauthored three books with Richard Ned Lebow: Taming Sino-American Rivalry (Oxford, 2020), Justice and International Order: East and West (Oxford, 2022), and History, Lessons, Analogies: Learning from Wars and Pandemics (under review by Oxford University Press). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in a range of disciplinary and area studies journals. He has written opinion pieces for East Asian Forum, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Strategist, and Wire China.

Zhang previously held teaching positions at Tsinghua University, Murdoch University, the Australian National University, and the South China University of Technology. He received visiting fellowships from the National University of Singapore, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and the National Institute for South China Sea Studies (China). He obtained his MSc in comparative politics and PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.