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Contact Email: j.x.liao@dundee.ac.uk
Dr Janet Xuanli Liao is a Lecturer in international relations and energy security at the CEPMLP. Her major duties at the Centre include: to co-host the Centre's PhD programme, to teach a Master degree course on International Relations and Energy & Natural Resources, and to conduct research relating to interplay between energy and international relations.
Dr Liao by training is a specialist on international relations and China's foreign policy decision-making. She obtained her PhD degree in International Relation from the University of Hong Kong, M.A. & B.A in History from Peking University (Distinctions), and M.A. in International Relations from the International University of Japan (Distinction).
Previous to her joining the Centre in 2001, Dr Liao has worked as Teaching Assistant and Lecturer at the History Department and the Institute of International Relations of Peking University, China, between 1986 and 1991. She has also worked as a Research Associate of the CEPMLP between 2000 and 2001, on a joint research project regarding "Strategic Implications of China's Energy Needs", together with Dr Philip Andrews-Speed, Head of CEPMLP, and Dr Roland Dannreuther, Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh University. The research has been published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies as an Adelphi Paper in 2002.
Research
Dr Liao's current research interests include Chinese think tanks and China's foreign policy decision-making, energy security and China's international energy policy analysis, Sino-Japanese political/energy relations, and, energy and geopolitics in East Asia. She also consults governments, think tanks, international petroleum companies and international organization on issues related to energy security, China's energy-led foreign policy, and East Asian energy and international relations.
Teaching
International Relations and Energy and Natural Resources (On-Campus)
The main objective of this course is to help the students to understand the int’l environments and of the interaction between international relations (IR) and energy and natural resources industry. This module, together with International Political Economy, is being introduced in order to provide an important political element to the MBA, LLM and MSc Programmes in general, and to form an important part of the specification of Geopolitics of Energy in particular.
