Aurelio Insisa
Aurelio Insisa is a Senior Asia Fellow within the Global Actors Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali. He is also the 2023-24 Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. Aurelio holds a PhD from the University of Hong Kong, where he taught for six years. His main research interests centre on the foreign policy of the People’s Republic of China, cross-Strait relations between Beijing and Taipei, and Taiwanese politics. Aurelio is the co-author of the monograph Sino-Japanese Power Politics (Palgrave, 2017) and has published numerous studies for the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, as well as for academic journals such as International Affairs, China Quarterly, e Pacific Review.
Selected publications:
2023. “Reunifying Taiwan with China through Lawfare.” The China Quarterly. doi:10.1017/S0305741023000735. (with Michael J. West)
2023. “Hybrid After All: The ‘Grey Zone’, the ‘Hybrid Warfare’ Debate, and the PLA’s Science of Military Strategy.” Defence Strategic Communications: The Official Journal of the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, Vol. 12. 165-186.
2023. “Taiwan 2022: Cross-Strait Security Spirals Further Down.” Asia Maior, Vol. XXXIII/2022, Vol. 11: 131-155.
2022. “Italy’s Embrace of the Belt and Road Initiative: Populist Foreign Policy and Political Marketing.” International Affairs, Vol. 98, No. 3: 1033-1051. (with Giulio Pugliese and Francesca Ghiretti).
2022. “China’s Discourse on Strategic Communications: Insights into PRC External Propaganda.” Defence Strategic Communications: The Official Journal of the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, Vol. 10: 111-152.
2022. “Taiwan 2021: Heightened Geo-Economic Relevance amid Rising Cross-Strait Tensions.” Asia Maior, Vol. XXXII/2021: 125-151.
2021. “No Consensus across the Strait: Chinese and Taiwanese Strategic Communications in a Contested Regional Order.” Asian Perspective, Vol. 45, No. 3: 503-531.
2020. “The Free and Open Indo-Pacific versus the Belt and Road: Spheres of Influence and Sino-Japanese Relations.” The Pacific Review, Vol. 35, No. 3: 557-585. Collato nel 2022. (with Giulio Pugliese).
