Role
Researcher, Department of Literature and Philosophy, University of Trento.
Bio
Giulia Sciorati is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Humanities at the University of Trento, where she is working on an interdepartmental project on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative and the COVID-19 pandemic on China's foreign policy (BRIIICoPIC), directed by Professor Sofia Graziani. Sciorati is also a Research Fellow for the China Programme at the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI).
She earned a PhD in International Studies from the School of International Studies of the University of Trento in September 2020.
Her thesis investigated the drivers of Chinese counterterrorism policy in Xinjiang from 1996 to 2017 through a neoclassical realist approach.
During her studies, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, Nottingham, and the European Institute of Asian Studies (EIAS). Her research interests include China's foreign and security policy, China's relations with Central Asia, and soft power theory.
He deals with security issues with particular reference to counterterrorism policies and the factors that influence decision-making at the government leadership level in China.
A second strand of research focuses on the regional projection of Chinese foreign policy, with particular attention to the New Silk Road and its impact on China's relations with Central Asian countries.