Huawei Zheng

About

Huawei’s PhD project examines the Eurasian Economic Union as an evolving regional actor. Before coming to Kent, Huawei earned his bachelor’s degree in law (majoring in diplomacy) at the China Foreign Affairs University (2011-2015), before going on to do an MSc in Russian and East European Studies at St Antony’s College, Oxford (2016-2017). His master’s thesis was entitled Russia-EU Relations (2008-2016): Realism, Complex or Fragile Interdependence? He was the winner of the Michael Kaser Thesis Prize in 2017 with a high distinction for the thesis. In 2017 he worked as a research assistant at the Phoenix Think Tank, which is part of IFENG.COM, before coming to Kent in 2018 to commence his PhD.

Supervision

Prof Elena Korosteleva, School of Politics and International Relations.