Peer-reviewed journal articles:

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• Chen, X. & Xu, L. (2025) State, Society, and Market: Interpreting the Norms and Dynamics of China's AI Governance. Computer Law & Security Review: The International Journal of Technology Law and Practice Volume 59, November 2025, 106206.

• Chen, X. & Gao, X. (2024) Norm diffusion in cyber governance: China as an emerging norm entrepreneur?. International Affairs. Vol 100 (6), pages 2419–2440.

• Gao, X. & Chen, X. (2024) The Regime Complex for Digital Trade in Asia and China’s Engagement. Asia Europe Journal.

• Pennisi di Floristella, Angela., & Chen, X. (2024) Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China. Policy Studies. 45 (3-4), pages 573-594.

• Chen, X. (2023) Bridging Normative and Market Power Europe: The EU’s Diffusion of Market-related Norms and Policies in ASEAN. Journal of European Integration. 45:4, pages 593-612.

• Pennisi di Floristella, Angela., & Chen, X. (2022) Building resilient supply chains in uncertain times: A comparative study of EU and ASEAN approaches to supply chain resilience. Asia Europe Journal. 20, pages 457–475.

• Chen, X., & Yang, Y. (2022) Contesting Western and Non-Western Approaches to Global Cyber Governance beyond Westlessness. The International Spectator 57:3, pages 48-65. 

• Gao, X., & Chen, X. (2022) Role enactment and the contestation of global cybersecurity governance. Defence Studies. 22 (4): 689-708.

• Chen, X. & Yang, Y. (2022) Different Shades of Norms: Comparing the Approaches of the EU and ASEAN to Cyber Governance. The International Spectator. 57:3, pages 48-65.

• Chen, X. (2022). Unpacking Normative Power Europe: EU Promotion of Security Norm Cluster in ASEAN. European Security. 31:2, pages 262-288.

• Chen, X., & Gao, X. (2021). Analysing the EU’s collective securitisation moves towards China. Asia Europe Journal. 20, pages 195–216.

• Gao, X., & Chen, X. (2021). Understanding the EU’s changing trade policy strategy towards the Asia-Pacific region from a role-theory perspective. Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, 13(2).

• Chen, X., & Gao, X. (2021). An Analysis of the Perception Gap between the EU’s Connectivity Strategy and China’s Belt and Road Initiative. L'Europe en Formation, (2), pages 78-93.

• Chen, X., & Gao, X. (2020). Bridging the Capability–Expectations Gap? An Analysis of the New Dynamics in the EU’s Security Strategy Towards Asia. Asia-Pacific Journal of EU Studies, 18(3), pages 9-36.

• Yang, Y., & Chen, X. (2021). Globalism or nationalism? The paradox of Chinese official discourse in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 26(1), pages 89-113.

• Chen, X. (2018). The role of ASEAN’s identities in reshaping the ASEAN–EU relationship. Contemporary Southeast Asia, 40(2), pages 222-246.

 

Book chapters:

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• Yu, K., Gao, X., & Chen, X. (2025). How should IOs engage with the private actors in global climate and energy governance?. in Inclusive Rule-Making by International Organisations: Innovations and Challenges. Edward Elgar Publishing.

• Zhang, C., Chen, X. & Yang, J. (2025). The Narratives of Counter-terrorism and the Prospects of EU-China Security Cooperation. in Narrating China and Europe in Uncertain Times. Bristol University Press.

• Gao, X., & Chen, X. (2023). Beyond the dichotomy of hard and soft power: a case study of the EU's naval engagement in the Indo-Pacific region. in EU in a Globalized World. Routledge.

• Chen, X., & Gao, X. (2022). Comparing the EU's and China's approaches in data governance. In Understanding the EU as a Good Global Actor (pages 209-225). Edward Elgar Publishing.

• Chen, X., & Gao, X. (2020). Exploring the Dynamic Nexus Between the European Union’s Trade and Foreign Policy Toward East Asia. In Global Politics and EU Trade Policy (pages. 115-137). Springer, Cham.

 

Conference proceedings:

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• Gao, X. & Chen, X. (2024) Understanding the Evolution of Transatlantic Data Privacy Regimes: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions. In European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC 2024), June 05, 06, 2024, Xanthi, Greece. ACM, New York, NY, USA

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