Chuchu Zhang

Chuchu Zhang is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. She is also an associate professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs and deputy director at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Fudan University.

Prior, Zhang was a research fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Global Governance and Area Studies. She also lectured at several international institutes including the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and ESSCA School of Management of France.

Zhang has published many books, academic articles, and policy papers in English and Chinese. She is author of Filling Power Vacuum? China’s Changing Role under the Belt and Road Initiative (Routledge, 2025), and Islamist Party Mobilization: Tunisia’s Ennahda and Algeria’s HMS Compared, 1989-2014 (Palgrave, 2020). Her latest peer-reviewed articles were published in International Relations, The Pacific Review, Mediterranean Politics, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Middle East Policy, and Environment and Planning: Economy and Space, Globalizations.

Zhang’s analysis has been featured in many research and media outlets including CGTN, Atlantic Council, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, and Lau China Institute.