Professor Xuetong Yan is a distinguished professor at Tsinghua University and the Honorary Dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992 with a PhD degree in political science. In 2008, Foreign Policy named him one of the world's top 100 Global Thinkers. From 2014 to 2019, he was the only political science scholar cited by Elsevier. Princeton University Press published his two books in English Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power (2011) and Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers (2019). Bristol University Press publishes his latest piece, titled Essence of Interstate Leadership (2023). In addition, some of Professor Yan's books have been translated into English, Russian, Japanese, Farsi, Hindi, Korean and Albanian, generating wide international impact.
