Alex Yu-Ting Lin is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.

He is also a nonresidential affiliated faculty at the University of Notre Dame’s International Security Center.

Alex studies the causes and strategies of revisionism, with a focus on US-China relations and Asian security. His book project, Contestation from Below, theorizes how smaller states shape when and why rising powers become dissatisfied with their status and seek to revise the international order. An article from the book project received the Patricia Weitsman award from the International Security Studies Section (ISSS), International Studies Association (ISA). His other research examines how states pursue their revisionist aims within international institutions or through information warfare.

His academic work has been published by European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, among others. His policy work has been published by The Diplomat and has received inquiries from the Parliament of Australia.

He received his PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Southern California. He has held research fellowships with the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at the George Washington University and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.

Lin, Alex Yu-Ting. Forthcoming. “Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation and Revisionism through Information Warfare.” International Studies Quarterly.

Lin, Alex Yu-Ting. 2024. “Contestation from Below: Status and Revisionism in Hierarchy.” International Studies Quarterly 68 (3): sqae092. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqae092.

Lin, Alex Yu-Ting, and Saori N. Katada. 2024. “Manufacturing Consensus: China’s Strategic Narratives and Geoeconomic Competition in Asia.” European Journal of International Relations 30 (3): 725–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661231219090.

Lin, Alex Yu-Ting, and Saori N. Katada. 2022. “Striving for Greatness: Status Aspirations, Rhetorical Entrapment, and Domestic Reforms.” Review of International Political Economy 29 (1): 175–201. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1801486.

Kang, David C, and Alex Yu-Ting Lin. 2019. “US Bias in the Study of Asian Security: Using Europe to Study Asia.” Journal of Global Security Studies 4 (3): 393–401. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogz024.

2022 International Studies Association (ISA) International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Patricia Weitsman Award