Current Research Areas in Social Sciences

Government and International Affairs

• AI governance, regulation, and ethics
• Asian and international political economy
• Asian Pacific and East Asian international relations
• Behavioural Public Administration
• Chinese politics and Chinese foreign policy
• Conflict and peace studies
• Contentious politics and political movement
• Cross strait relations
• Electoral politics, party development and legislative dynamics
• Ethnicity, religion, nationalism and national identity
• Global politics and foreign policy decision-making
• Hong Kong local politics
• Politics of data, platforms and algorithms
• Political theory
• Public governance and institutional design
• Regional economic and security cooperation
• Science and technology policy
• Strategy, innovation and performance in public service organisations