Xiaoming Huang

Xiaoming Huang is Professor of International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington and specializes in East Asian politics, political economy and international relations. Professor Huang received his PhD in International Relations in 1993 from USC (Los Angeles), and BA in international politics in 1983 and MA in international relations in 1986, both from Peking University. Before joining Victoria University of Wellington in 1997, he had held teaching and research positions at the Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (Washington, DC, 1988); the School of International Relations, USC (Los Angeles, 1991–1993); the Program of International Politics and Economy, East-West Center (Honolulu, 1993–1994); the Center for International Studies/Pacific Council on International Policy (Los Angeles, 1994–1995); the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Tampere (Finland, 1995–1996); and the Department of Sociology and Political Science, University of Trondheim (Norway, 1996–1997).

Since the early years of his academic career, Professor Huang has developed a keen interest in the patterns of political economic organization of modern state in different institutional and cultural settings, and the effective ways we describe and explain them to people across critical boundaries, national or civilizational. This interest has led to his research in areas of political economy of East Asian modern development; international relations of East Asia; China's engagement with the Liberal International Order; and structures, institutions and political order in national, regional and world politics.

Professor Huang organized the founding of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre and directed it from 2009 to 2014; was an editor of International Studies Perspectives from 2009 to 2014; and is currently a member of the Advisory Group for the Global International Relations section of the International Studies Association. Professor Huang is a leading academic in shaping and promoting global international relations, the study of international relations and comparative politics at Victoria University of Wellington, and social science research on East Asia at New Zealand universities. Professor Huang was a senior visiting professor at Peking University in 2003, Seikei University in 2003, the Academy of Korean Studies in 2003 and 2004, University of Leiden in 2007 and 2008, and Ryukoku University in 2018 and 2019.

Professor Huang is author and researcher of the following selected works:

◾Huang, Xiaoming, 2022. Political Order in Modern East Asian States. New York and London: Routledge.

◾Huang, Xiaoming, 2020, "Structuring of transborder flows of national industrial Capital: Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, and China in the 2000s and 2010s," The Japanese Political Economy, 46(2-3):200-226.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, 2019. International Relations of East Asia: Structures, Institutions and International Order. New York and London: Macmillan/Red Globe.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming. 2017. "The emerging security landscape in the Asia-Pacific: Where ASEAN fits between the United States and China," pp. 129-148 in A. Chong (ed.), International Security in the Asia-Pacific: Transcending ASEAN towards Transitional Polycentrism. Palgrave Macmillan.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, J. Young, 2016. Politics in Pacific Asia, New York and London: Palgrave and Macmillan.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, 2013. Modern Economic Development in Japan and China: Developmentalism, Capitalism and the World Economic System. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, R. Patman, 2013. China and the International System, New York and London: Routledge.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, A. Tan and S. Bandyopadhyay, 2011. China, India and the End of Development Models, New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, 2010. "Crafting the Modern State: Religion, Family and Military in Japan, China and Korea," pp. 21-50 in M. Amineh (ed.), State, Society and International Relations in Asia: Reality and Challenges, University of Amsterdam Press

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, 2010. The Institutional Dynamics of China’s Great Transformation. New York and London: Routledge.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, 2009. Politics in Pacific Asia. New York and London: Palgrave.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, 2007. "The invisible hand: modern studies of international relations in Japan, China, and Korea," Journal of International Relations and Development, 10(2):168-203.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, 2005. The Rise and Fall of the East Asian Growth System 1951-2000: Institutional Competitiveness and Rapid Economic Growth. London and New York: Routledge.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, 2002. "What is “Chinese” about Chinese civilization? Culture, Institutions and Globalization," pp. 218-24 in M. Mozaffari (ed.), Globalization and Civilizations, Routledge.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, 2001. "The Zen Master's Story and an Anatomy of International Relations Theory," pp. 222-243 in S. Chan and P. Mandaville (eds.), The Zen of International Relations, Palgrave.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, 2001. The Political and Economic Transition in East Asia: Strong Market and Weakening State. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.

◾ Huang, Xiaoming, 2000. "Managing Fluctuations in US-China Relations: World Politics, National Priority and Policy Leadership," Asian Survey, 40(2):269-295.

◾ Joshua, G., Xiaoming Huang, B. Akan, 1997. Energy in the World Economy, 1950-1992," Internattional Studies Quarterly, 41(2):241-266.