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The Chinese Communist Party’s Hybrid Interference and Germany’s Increasingly Contentious China Debate (2018-21) (2021)
Journal Article
Fulda, A. (2021). The Chinese Communist Party’s Hybrid Interference and Germany’s Increasingly Contentious China Debate (2018-21). The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, 2, 205-234. https://doi.org/10.25365/jeacs.2021.2.205-234

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ambition to neutralise independent academia at home and abroad is the conundrum at the heart of this article. Based on a review of the literature on sharp power, hybrid interference, the United Front system and the... Read More about The Chinese Communist Party’s Hybrid Interference and Germany’s Increasingly Contentious China Debate (2018-21).

Mitigating threats to academic freedom in Germany: the role of the state, universities, learned societies and China (2021)
Journal Article
Fulda, A., & Missal, D. (2022). Mitigating threats to academic freedom in Germany: the role of the state, universities, learned societies and China. International Journal of Human Rights, 26(10), 1803-1821. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2021.1989412

The authors probe whether or not the ecosystem of organised academia in Germany provides sufficient academic autonomy for scholars to conduct their research without fear or favour. Despite constitutional guarantees of academic freedom, academics face... Read More about Mitigating threats to academic freedom in Germany: the role of the state, universities, learned societies and China.

The Importance of Leverage in GlaxoSmithKline’s China Engagement: A Revelatory Case Study (2020)
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Thorley, M., & Fulda, A. (2020). The Importance of Leverage in GlaxoSmithKline’s China Engagement: A Revelatory Case Study. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1177/1868102620931862

This article critically examines multinational corporation (MNC)–host government relations in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) through the prism of the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) corruption scandal. The article takes the episode as a revelatory case s... Read More about The Importance of Leverage in GlaxoSmithKline’s China Engagement: A Revelatory Case Study.

The Resource Mobilisation Cycle: How Chinese Civil Society Organisations Leverage Cultural, Economic, Symbolic and Social Capita (2020)
Journal Article
Fulda, A., & Hsu, J. Y. J. (2020). The Resource Mobilisation Cycle: How Chinese Civil Society Organisations Leverage Cultural, Economic, Symbolic and Social Capita. China, 18(2), 55-76

How can survival strategies of resource-dependent Chinese CSO be re-conceptualized in order to narrow the gap between civil society research and emerging CSO practices? Specifically, to what extent have CSOs managed to leverage scarce resources to se... Read More about The Resource Mobilisation Cycle: How Chinese Civil Society Organisations Leverage Cultural, Economic, Symbolic and Social Capita.

The emergence of citizen diplomacy in EU-China relations:principles, pillars, pioneers, paradoxes (2019)
Journal Article
Fulda, A. (2019). The emergence of citizen diplomacy in EU-China relations:principles, pillars, pioneers, paradoxes. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 30(1), 188-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2019.1557419

This analysis considers the phenomenon of citizen diplomacy in European Union [EU]–China relations. It begins by engaging with the global discourse about “new” diplomacy and outlines how society-centric citizen diplomacy differs from state-centric pu... Read More about The emergence of citizen diplomacy in EU-China relations:principles, pillars, pioneers, paradoxes.

The contested role of foreign and domestic foundations in the PRC: policies, positions, paradigms, power (2017)
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Fulda, A. (in press). The contested role of foreign and domestic foundations in the PRC: policies, positions, paradigms, power. Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies, 7,

This research paper examines how foundations—foreign and domestic, public and private, operating and grant making engage with Chinese civil society organisations in an authoritarian political context. In contrast to previous literature, which conside... Read More about The contested role of foreign and domestic foundations in the PRC: policies, positions, paradigms, power.

New strategies of civil society in China: a case study of the network governance approach (2012)
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Fulda, A., Li, Y., & Song, Q. (2012). New strategies of civil society in China: a case study of the network governance approach. Journal of Contemporary China, 21(76), https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2012.666837

Since the turn of the millennium a second generation of Chinese civil society organisations (CSO) have started taking on issues such as rural migrant integration, social service provision, as well as community building. Organisations such as Beijing-... Read More about New strategies of civil society in China: a case study of the network governance approach.

Bridging the gap: pracademics in foreign policy (2011)
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Murphy, A. M., & Fulda, A. (2011). Bridging the gap: pracademics in foreign policy. PS: Political Science and Politics, 44(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096511000084

In his seminal work Bridging the Gap: Theory and Practice in Foreign Policy, Alexander George (1993) lamented the great divide between academia and the foreign policymaking community, arguing that greater interaction between scholars and policymakers... Read More about Bridging the gap: pracademics in foreign policy.