Songying Fang

Associate Professor
Department of Political Science


Education

Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2006

Major Research Interests

  • Territorial Disputes, Great Power Competition, Public Opinion in Asia-Pacific
  • Alliance Politics, Peacekeeping Operations
                • Theory and Practice of International Organizations
                • Survey Experiment, Applied Game-theoretic Modeling

Professor Fang’s research areas span general IR questions, such as the link between domestic politics and state behavior in international organizations and interstate conflict, as well as questions focused on the Asia-Pacific region. She has published in many leading political science and international relations journals, including American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Politics, and British Journal of Political Science. She has also received fellowships from Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.


Publications

Forthcoming. Electricity Grids and Geopolitics: A Game-theoretic Analysis of the Synchronization of the Baltic States’ Electricity Networks with Continental Europe (with Amy Myers Jaffe, Ted Loch-Temzelides, and Chiara Lo Prete) Energy Policy.

2023. Unpacking “the West”: Divergence and Asymmetry in Chinese Public Attitudes toward Europe and the United States  (with Adam Liu and Xiaojun Li) Journal of Current Chinese Affairs.

Media: South China Morning Post

2022. Southeast Asia under Great-Power Competition: Public Opinion About Hedging in the Philippines (with Xiaojun Li).  Journal of East Asian Studies 22 (3): 481-501.

2022. The Limit of American Public Support for Use of Force (with Jared Oestman).  Armed Forces & Society.

2022. Belief in Territorial Indivisibility and Preferences for Dispute Resolution (with Xiaojun Li, Atsushi Tago, and Daina Chiba). Political Science Research and Methods 10: 759-775.

2022. Chinese Public Opinion about US-China Relations from Trump to Biden (with Xiaojun Li  and Adam Liu). Chinese Journal of International Politics 15(1):27-46.

Media: Bloomberg    South China Morning Post

2021. What Do Chinese People Think of Developed Countries? 2021 Edition: A new survey shows small but important changes after the 2020 U.S. presidential election (with Xiaojun Li  and Adam Liu). The DIPLOMAT (3/13/2021).

2020. What Do Chinese People Think of Developed Countries? Perceptions of China have darkened in the United States and much of Europe. Are those feelings mutual? (with Xiaojun Li  and Adam Liu). The Diplomat (12/18/2020).

2020. Historical Ownership and Territorial Disputes (with Xiaojun Li). Journal of Politics 82 (1) : 345-360.

2019. Gauging Chinese Public Support for China’s Role in Peacekeeping (with Fanglu Sun). Chinese Journal of International Politics 12 (2): 179-201.
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2018. China’s Evolving Motivations and Goals in UN Peacekeeping Participation (with Xiaojun Li and  Fanglu Sun). International Journal 73 (3) : 464-473.
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2017. Mixed signals: IMF Lending and Capital Markets” (with Terrence Chapman, Xin Li and  Randall Stone). British Journal of Political Science 47 (2) : 329–349.
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2014. To Concede or to Resist? The Restraining Effect of Military Alliances (with Jesse C. Johnson and Brett Ashley Leeds). International Organization 68 (4) : 775–809.
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2014. New Alignments? The Geopolitics of Gas and Oil Cartels and the Changing Middle (with Amy Myers Jaffe and Ted Loch-Temzelides). Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy 3 (1) : 107–118.
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2014. “Institutional Opposition, Regime Accountability, and International Conflict”  (with Daina Chiba). Journal of Politics 76 (3) : 798–813.

2014. Compromised Peacebuilding”(with Michael Barnett and Christoph Zürcher). International Studies Quarterly 58 (3) : 608–620.                                                                                                                               PDF

2012. International Organizations as Policy Advisors”(with Randall Stone). International Organization 66 (4) : 537–569.

2011. International Institutions and Credible Commitment of Non-democracies (with Erica Owen). Review of International Organizations 6 (2) : 141–162.                                                                               PDF

2010. The Strategic Use of International Institutions in Dispute Settlement. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 5 (2) : 107–131.
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2010. Outside Options and Burden Sharing in Nonbinding Alliances.(with Kristopher Ramsay). Political Research Quarterly 63 (1) : 188–202.
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2008. The informational role of international institutions and domestic politics. American Journal of Political Science 52 (2) : 304–321.
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Contact

114 Herzstein Hall
sfang@rice.edu