Sun Yat-sen University · Zhuhai, China
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sun Yat-sen University
Researching international relations, China–Middle East relations, diplomacy, political economy, development, and the changing architecture of global power.
Research
Dr. Zreik's work moves across several interconnected areas of international relations, political economy, diplomacy, and regional studies — centred on China, the Middle East, and the wider dynamics of Asian and global affairs. Rather than a single narrow programme, his scholarship draws these threads together to examine how diplomacy, economic strategy, and development shape the changing architecture of global power.
China's role in changing global economic and political structures, its foreign policy, and its place within international institutions.
Diplomacy, economic cooperation, and strategic partnerships shaping China's evolving engagement with the Middle East.
Public and cultural diplomacy, educational exchange, negotiation, and comparative diplomatic practice.
Trade, investment, infrastructure, migration, and the economic policy questions shaping development outcomes.
The Belt and Road Initiative and the emerging economic corridors linking Asian and Middle Eastern regional systems.
Digital transformation, sustainability, and the institutional questions raised by a shifting global order.
Publications
Zreik, M.
Springer Nature Singapore
An examination of how artificial intelligence is reshaping social sciences and humanities curricula in Middle Eastern higher education.
Huang, H. C., & Zreik, M.
Palgrave Macmillan Singapore / Springer Nature
An examination of the institutional relationship between the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Asian Development Bank, and its implications for regional governance and geoeconomic competition in ASEAN.
Zreik, M.
Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature
A study of Qatar's evolving position within China's Belt and Road Initiative, and the economic and strategic logic connecting Gulf capital to Chinese connectivity ambitions.
Zreik, M. (Ed.)
IGI Global
An edited volume surveying contemporary shifts in diplomatic practice, from digital and public diplomacy to negotiation strategy in a changing international order.
Research at a Glance
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2023 – Present
Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China
Researching soft power diplomacy, comparing China's methods of engagement in the Middle East and East Asia.
2024
Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia
2024
Centre for Lebanese Studies, University of Cambridge
2021 – 2023
Center for Asian and Chinese Studies, Beirut
2018 – 2021
Central China Normal University, Wuhan
Public Engagement
South China Morning Post
The Diplomat
China Daily
CGTN
Al Jazeera
Al Mayadeen
Modern Diplomacy
Eurasia Review
Contact
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