Walter Lee
Assistant Professor, Politics and Public Administration at Hong Kong Metropolitan University
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Dr Walter Lee specialises in Chinese international relations, in particular the competition and cooperation that China engages in global governance. He has a broad interest in intellectual history, knowledge production, and cross-disciplinary research that brings Political Science and the Humanities into conversation. An exemplary outcome is his latest research monograph Principles and Laws in World Politics: Classical Chinese Perspectives on Global Conflict (World Scientific Publishing, 2021, 522 pages).
Dr Lee studied and worked in Hong Kong before obtaining a MA in International Relations from the University of Warwick. He subsequently completed his PhD in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland with a thesis on Chinese non-interventionism and classical Chinese conceptions of the jus ad bellum. Before joining the HKMU (at the time, OUHK), Dr Lee was Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in Global China Studies and Social Sciences programmes in School of Humanities and Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He also taught at the University of Auckland and Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in New Zealand.
In research, Dr Lee worked as Senior Research Fellow in China and public international law at the University of Hong Kong (HKU)’s Faculty of Law, and Research Assistant for China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN) at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He held Visiting Scholar position at Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing, as well as Visiting Fellow position at Centre for Comparative and Public Law (CCPL), HKU. Dr Lee was trained earlier in the Humanities. He graduated with First Class Honours specialising in English and Comparative Literature. His enduring passion for making the world a better place was much inspired and driven by his internship experience with the United Nations General Assembly at New York Headquarters.
Currently, Dr Lee is concentrating on fundamental research in world politics and Chinese IR.
Teaching Areas & Research Interests
- Intellectual history and knowledge production
- Chinese international relations
- International organisations and global governance
- Public international law, comparative law
- Aesthetics, hermeneutics, and world politics
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy University of Auckland (2010 — 2016)
- Master of Arts University of Warwick (2007 — 2008)
- PGDE The University of Hong Kong (2004 — 2006)
- Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2001 — 2004)
- International Summer School University of Cambridge (2002 — 2002)
- B.A. (Hons.) Hong Kong Baptist University (2000 — 2001)
Selected Publications
- Lee, Walter (2021). Principles and Laws in World Politics: Classical Chinese Perspectives on Global Conflict. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing.
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