• Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Siena, Italy (2008)
• M.A. in European Politics, University of Leuven, Belgium (2004)
• M.A. in Applied Linguistics, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, China (2002)
• B.A. in English Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, China (1998)
• Associate Degree in English Studies, Shanghai Institute of Education, China (1991)

• Chinese foreign policy, with a focus on political discourse and norms;
• European politics, particularly EU foreign policy;
• Sino-European relations, including cultural and civilizational dimensions;
• Critical geopolitics, examining geopolitical codes and imaginations;
• Post-colonial studies, with attention to inequality in international relations.

(for complete list, please refer to Prof. Song’s google scholar profile https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DmvXbvUAAAAJ&hl=en):

Books and Special Issue:

• Song, W. & J. Wang (eds), (2019). The European Union in the Asia Pacific: Rethinking Europe’s Strategies and Policies, Manchester University Press, the UK.
• Song, W. (2016). China’s Approach to Central Asia: the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, London, the UK: Routledge.

Journal Articles: (*) is used to denote the Corresponding Author

• Sun, S. & W. Song*(2025). “Ontological security amidst fateful moments: adjusting Hong Kong’s place in Britain’s (post-)imperial biographical narrative”, Security Dialogue. (online first) pp. 1-19.
• Sun, S. & W. Song*(2025). “Anglobal knowledge and reimagined geographies of provincialization: the Anglosphere as missing ‘area’ in area studies”, Globalizations, (online first) pp.1-19.
• Zhou, M. & W. Song*(2025). “Making fun of foreign leaders in Chinese cyberspace: Understanding Zhihu users’ political entertainment in assigning posthumous names to US presidents”, Alternatives, Vol. 50(2) 485–49.
• Song, W.* & X. Li (2024). “Eastern Opening” policy as political marketing: Populism and Hungary’s relations with China under the Orbán government”, Problems of Post-Communism. VOL. 71, NO. 6, 592–600.
• Song, W.* & J. C. Velasco (2024). “Selling independent foreign policy amid the US–China rivalry: Populism and Philippine foreign policy under the Duterte government”, Pacific Review. 37(1), PP.118-146.
• Song, W.*, Y. Ruan, & S. Sun (2023). “Twitter diplomacy and China’s strategic narrative during the early Covid-19 crisis”, Asian Perspective. 47(4), pp. 683-705.
• Song, W.* & E. Fanoulis (2022). “Global perspectives on European Union public diplomacy: an introduction”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 31(1), PP. 1-7.
• W. Song.* & R. Fürst (2024). “China’s bid for international leadership in Central and Eastern Europe: role conflict and policy responses”, International Relations, 38(4), 541-566.
• Fanoulis, E. & W. Song* (2022). “The cooperation between EU and China: A post-liberal governmentality approach”, Review of International Studies, 48(2), 346-363.
• S. Chan & W. Song* (2020), “Telling the China Story well: A Discursive Approach to the Analysis of Chinese Foreign Policy in the “Belt and Road”, Chinese Political Science Review, 5(3), 417-437.
• Mak, G. & W. Song* (2019). “Transnational Norms and Governing Illegal Wildlife Trade in China and Japan: Elephant Ivory and Related Products under CITES’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 31:5, 373-391.
• Song, W.* & R. B. Hall (2019). European Union’s Construction of International Identity via Strategic Partnerships: Associating and Social Distancing, Contemporary Politics, 25:2, 172-189.
• Song, W. (2015). “Securitization of the ‘China Threat’ Discourse: a Poststructuralist Account”, the China Review, Vol. 15, No.1: pp. 145 – 169.
• Song, W. (2014), “Interests, Power, and China’s Difficult Game in Shanghai Cooperation Organization”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 23, issue 85, 85 – 101. Reprinted as Chapter 30, in Liselotte Odgaard, Mathieu Duchâtel (eds) China’s Security, Volume 2: China’s Security Priorities in Asia, Routledge, 2018.
• Song, W. * V. Della Sala (2008), “Eurosceptics and Europhiles in accord: the Creation of the European Ombudsman as an Institutional Isomorphism”, Policy and Politics, 36 (4): pp. 481- 495.

Weiqing SONG is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Macau and a two-time recipient of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Foreign Policy (2018-2021 & 2024-2027). He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Siena, Italy. Professor Song specializes in international relations and European Studies, teaching courses on global governance, European politics, the history of European integration, and Sino-European relations. Prof. Song’s research spans Chinese foreign policy, European politics, and Sino-European relations, alongside thematic interests in discourse, norms, and power dynamics within international relations. Professor Song welcomes inquiries from prospective students and collaborators.