Yue Wang

Postdoctoral Researcher https://researchportal.tuni.fi/en/persons/yue-wang

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 (03/2021–03/2025, granted by the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University)
• 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 China’s Polar Silk Road (01/2023–01/2024, granted by the University of Oslo & Fudan-European Centre for China Studies (FECCS))
• Comparing Japanese and Chinese Involvement in Arctic Science and Energy Cooperation (2023–2024, granted by 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

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

Guest lectures

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland (MA, December 2021)
• University of Iceland, Iceland (MA, November 2022)
• University of Groningen, the Netherlands (MA, April 2023)
• Tongji University, China (MA, April 2023)
• Ocean University of China (MA, July 2023)
• University of Oulu, Finland (BA & MA, January 2024)
• 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.

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.