Courtney J. Fung is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong, and concurrently Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and Associate Fellow in the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House. Fung’s work addresses how rising powers contribute to global security and the design of international order, with an empirical focus on China and India and an emphasis on the effects of status and norms for foreign policy behavior.
Fung’s book China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status (Oxford University Press, 2019) explains the effects of status on China’s varied response to intervention and foreign-imposed regime change at the United Nations. Her work appears in Cooperation and Conflict, Global Governance, PS: Political Science & Politics, The China Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, International Peacekeeping, Monkey Cage, and the USIP PeaceBrief series. She has been cited in media outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and PassBlue. Fung is currently working on two book projects mapping China’s influence at the United Nations and understanding how China is creating a global information order.
Fung was previously a Research Fellow with the East Asia Institute (Seoul) in their Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia, and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the now Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program. Prior positions include research fellowships with the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and with the Global Peace Operations Program at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University. Fung holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
