Rate My Professor Huiyun Feng

Professor Huiyun Feng is Professor and Deputy Head of School in the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith Business School, at Griffith University. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Arizona State University, completed in 2005. Feng joined Griffith University in 2015, advancing from Senior Lecturer, during which time she also served as Deputy Director of the Centre for Governance and Public Policy. Earlier in her career, she was a Jennings Randolph Superior Research Assistant at the United States Institute of Peace. Her academic interests center on foreign policy analysis, security studies, US-China strategic competition, institutional balancing theory, China's foreign policy and strategic culture, international order transitions in the Indo-Pacific, and the application of prospect theory and operational code analysis to risk-taking behavior in international relations.

Feng has co-authored several seminal books with Professor Kai He, including The Upside of US-Chinese Strategic Competition: Institutional Balancing and Order Transition in the Asia Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2025), After Hedging: Hard Choices for the Indo-Pacific States Between the US and China (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Contesting Revisionism: China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order (Oxford University Press, 2021), and China’s Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond “Thucydides's Trap” (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Other notable works include Navigating International Order Transition in the Indo-Pacific (Routledge, 2024) and How China Sees the World: Insights from China's International Relations Scholars (Springer, 2019). She has published over 70 works, with more than 1,178 citations. As Chief Investigator, she has led Australian Research Council Discovery Projects such as DP230102158 ($171,550, 2023) and DP210102843 ($143,851, 2021), and served as Co-Chief Investigator on a three-year John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant (2016-2019).