Teaching

For more than a decade, teaching has been the central focus of my professional life. From my earliest teaching experiences in China to the classes I now run in Europe and the United States, working with students has been a continual source of personal and professional inspiration. I see my students as partners in a process that depends heavily on experimentation, creativity, a willingness embrace failure as a necessary step towards success (except of course on final exams), and the co-creation of knowledge.

I see my role as a teacher to:

• facilitate focused, analytical debate

• establish and critique theoretical frameworks for simplifying reality

• create knowledge in partnership with the students

• foster an environment of curiosity, empathy and philosophical imagination

 

I have taught university and corporate courses on:

• International Relations Theory  • The Digital Age   • The Politics of Nuclear Weapons

• Foreign Policy Making  • Theories of Decision Making   • Organizational Behavior

• Social Networks   • Communications Technology   • Social Anthropology

Teaching experience:

  Current or pending courses:

Universität der Bundeswehr München (The University of the German Federal Armed Forces, Munich)

George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

University of Denver

  Previous courses:

Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan

The University of St Andrews, Scotland

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