Yue Wang

Research portal https://researchportal.tuni.fi/en/persons/yue-wang

Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies, Université Laval, Canada

Visiting Researcher at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland

PhD in International Relations. Doctoral dissertation Intentions and Unintended Consequences in International Cooperation: China–Nordic Arctic scientific research cooperation

Visiting Research Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Institute of Environmental Studies, 12/2025; Department of Political Science and Public Administration, 01/2025); Ocean University of China, China (04/2025); Hokkaido University, Japan (02/2024–03/2024); Arctic Centre at Umeå University, Sweden (09/2023); Fudan University, China (06/2023–07/2023); University of Groningen, the Netherlands (04/2023–05/2023); Institute of International Affairs, University of Iceland, Iceland (10/2022–11/2022); Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway (09/2022); the Open University, United Kingdom (9/2021–10/2021).

Other invited positions: Member of the Board of Nordic Association for China Studies (NACS)

Individual research projects

• International Cooperation with China in the Global Arctic: Intentions and Consequences (03/2021–02/2025, granted by the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University; 03/2025-02/2026, granted by the Finnish Cultural Foundation)
• Scientific Research Cooperation between China and Iceland under the Polar Silk Road (2022, granted by China in Europe Research Network, EU COST Action 18215)
• Sino-Nordic Scientific Research and Science-based Clean Energy Cooperation under the Polar Silk Road (01/2023–01/2024, granted by the University of Oslo & Fudan-European Centre for China Studies)
• Comparing Japanese and Chinese Involvement in Arctic Science and Energy Cooperation (2023–2024, granted by the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation, project number: GA23-FI-0081)

Teaching and supervision at Tampere University

• Master's thesis supervision
• Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Contemporary Russia-China Relations (Spring semester, 2025-2026). Course code: POL.KV.331 World Politics, POL.KV. 342 Current Issues in International Security, and RUST.032. Master's programme in IR, Master's programme in Security Management and Politics, and the ExpRESS programme.
• Introduction to Leadership for Change (Autumn semester, 2023-2024) Course code: LFC. 310 An introductory course to the Master's Degree Programme in Leadership for Change (LFC)
• International Politics and the Global Arctic (Autumn semester, 2023-2024) Course unit: POL.KV. 231 Global Governance and Global Problems
• China and the EU in the Contemporary World (Spring semester, 2022- 2023) Course unit: POL.KV.232 International Society, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy
• International Politics and Governance in the Arctic (Spring semester, 2021- 2022) Course unit: POL.KV. 233 International Political Economy

Teaching at the University of Oulu

1. Arctic and Nordic Perspectives on Sustainable Development (co-teaching, Arctic Summer Programme 2024, 2025, 2026)
2. Sustainable Development in the European Arctic (co-teaching, Spring semester 2024-2025)

Guest lectures

1. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland (MA, December 2021)
2. University of Iceland, Iceland (MA, November 2022)
3. University of Groningen, the Netherlands (MA, April 2023)
4. Tongji University, China (MA, April 2023)
5. Ocean University of China (MA, July 2023)
6. University of Oulu, Finland (BA & MA, January 2024)
7. Ocean University of China (MA, April 2025)

Arctic geopolitics and security, energy politics, international cooperation, China-EU relations, China-Russia relations

International Relations

Korppoo, A., & Wang, Y. (2024). Sino–Russian Arctic gas cooperation amid new geopolitical realities: Impacts and perceptions. In I. Stensdal & G. M. Heggelund (Eds.), China-Russia Relations in the Arctic: Friends in the Cold? Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63087-3_9 

Wang, Y. (2023). The Arctic for China’s green energy transition. The Arctic Institute – Center for Circumpolar Security Studies. https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/arctic-chinas-green-energy-transition/

Wang, Y., & Xu, L.L. (2022). Assessing China’s Securitization of Arctic Climate Change and Energy. In Kirchner, S. (Ed.) Security and Technology in Arctic Governance (pp. 57-114). Lit Verlag.

Wang, Y. (2020). A Comparative Study of the Official Use of Arctic Environmental Discourses of China and the EU. The Arctic Institute: Center for Circumpolar Security Studies.