Dr G. Qiao-Franco (Guangyu)

Artificial Intelligence|Cyber Security|China Studies| ASEAN Studies|Practice Theory |Norms|International Organisations


Dr Guangyu Qiao-Franco (BA&MA-Fudan; PhD-UniMelb) is an Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University. She also serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Leiden Asia Centre and as an Honorary Senior Researcher for the ERC-funded AUTONORMs project. Additionally, she is the Principal Investigator of the Dutch government-funded Project on China's Export Control Strategy of Dual-Use Technologies under the China Knowledge Network. Her research focuses on international norms and policy development related to the military application of AI technologies, with particular attention to the role of Global South initiatives in this process.

Her recent work appears in International Affairs, Security Dialogue, The Pacific Review, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Chinese Journal of International Politics and Journal of Contemporary China. She is the author of the book UN-ASEAN Coordination: Policy Transfer and Regional Cooperation Against Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia (Edward Elgar, 2023) and the forthcoming textbook Understanding International Relations of the Indo-Pacific (Routledge, w/ Aleš Karmazin and Michal Kolmaš)