CV of Liu Zuokui

Liu Zuokui, PhD in History (2005), the Senior Research Fellow of CASS and the Director of the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies, Institute of European Studies, CASS, and the Acting Director of the China--CEEC Think Tanks Exchange and Cooperation Network Office.

Liu currently serves as the senior researcher of the Development Research Center of State Council of China, the advanced research fellow of China Foundation of International Studies and the senior researcher of Regional Security Center of CASS. He once was the visiting scholar of Mannheim University of Germany(2007), Aoyama Gakuin University of Japan(2009), Polish Institute of International Affairs(2015) and Latvian Institute of International Affairs(2016).

Liu’s major research interest included: Central and Eastern European Studies, Balkan Studies, European Union Integration Studies, China-EU Relations, Quantitative Research such as the Mutual Perception between China and EU and Central and Eastern European Countries, the Turkish Issues and China-Turkish Relations, Electronic Governance and etc.

Liu has published or edited several books and many articles. The books included:

Liu Zuokui, Europe and the Belt and Road Initiative: Responses and Risks, China’s Social Sciences Publishing House, Beijing, 2015.

Liu Zuokui, The EU Way of State Building: EU’s Policy towards Western Balkans, China’s Social Sciences Publishing House, Beijing, 2015.

Dong Lisheng, Liu Zuokui, The Electronic Governance in Developed Countries, China’s Social Sciences Publishing House, 2012.

Liu Zuokui edited, The European Integration Research in China, New Thinking, New Approach and New Framework, International Cultural Publishing House, 2012.

Liu Zuokui has also written many Eunglish articles on Central and Eastern European Studies and EU Studies which included:

Liu Zuokui, “The Role of Central and Eastern Europe in the Building of the Silk Road Economic Belt”, China International Studies, Volume 55, July/August, 2014.

Liu Zuokui, “Cautious Engagement: China’s Policy toward Ukraine”, New Eastern Europe, 3, volumne VII, 2014.

Liu Zuokui, “The Pragmatic Cooperation between China and CEE: Characteristics, Problems and Policy Suggestions”, Working Papers of IES, CASS, Vol. 7, No. 6, 2013.

Liu Zuokui, “New Circumstances for China’s Investment in Central and Eastern Europe”, China International Studies, Volume 37, November/December 2012.

Liu Zuokui, “EU's Conditionality and Western Balkans' Accession Roads”, Academic Journal of European Perspective, no.2, April, 2010.

The Chinese Perception of the EU 2007: A Preliminary Analysis of the Survey on the Chinese Perception of the EU and the Sino-EU Relations, Working Papers series on European Studies, vol.1, No., 2008.(co-author)

Liu Zuokui, “Perception and Misperception between Turkey and China”, from Kutay Karaca edited, Sino-Turkey Relations: Policies, Perceptions and Prospects, Palgrave, 2014.

Contact Information: 0086-10-85195742, liuzk@cass.org.cn