Undergrad Research: International Relations & Comparative / Undergrad Research: International Relations & Comparative

Linan Lily Yao, Columbia University in the City of New York

A Lifetime of Unrest: Using Social Identity Theory to Explain the Conflict in Xinjiang - Daniel Anaforian, Santa Clara University

China's Belt and Road Initiative: Catch 22 for the United States - Me Me Khant, Centre College

China's Conquest of the Cow's Tongue: A Dangerous Two Level Bet - Philip Merrifield, Wheaton College

China’s Master Plan: Is the Belt Road Initiative an Ambitious Hegemonic Design or an Inauspicious Economic Entanglement? - Elizabeth H. Speyer, University of Pennsylvania

China's Two-Level Game: The Relationship Between China's Foreign Policy Objectives and Domestic Politics - Luke J. Witzig, Wheaton College

Geopolitical Conflicts in the Arctic: Will the Arctic Ocean Become the New South China Sea? - Brock Sanders, Schreiner University

Maritime Dispute in the South China Sea – Why a Hot Conflict is Unlikely? - Linh Khanh Do, Beloit College

One Belt, One Road: An Exploration of China's Soft Power - Paige B Tarr, Idaho State University

Linan Lily Yao, Columbia University in the City of New York

Sow Keat Tok, The University of Melbourne