Ruolan Gan 甘若兰
Job Title
PhD Student
Research interests
Research interests
- Responsibility to Protect (R2P), humanitarian intervention, humanitarianism, humanitarian assistance; Conflicts and international crimes, particularly genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity; Just war
- State sovereignty, non-intervention principles
- Norm contestation, norm (re)shaping, international norms
- Textual analysis, particularly critical discourse analysis and frame analysis
- Chinese foreign policy, Chinese media studies; Translation in International Relations, English-Chinese
- UN Security Council, UN bodies
Background
PhD project: China's Approach to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
This research seeks to illuminate China's norm-shaping process by critically analysing its voting patterns and language usage related to the norm of R2P. In doing so, the study closely examines Chinese sources and United Nations documents and compares twelve cases.
Supervisors
Professor Andrew Neal (Oct 2021 - Jun 2022)
Dr Youngmi Kim (Sep 2020 - Oct 2021)
Education
Master of Arts, International Relations and Affairs
The Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia (2017 - 2019)
Bachelor of Management Studies, Public Administration
Hohai University, Nanjing, China (2013 - 2017)
Research assistantship
Non-violent Repression and the Escalation of Conflicts over Self-Determination (NRECS) (Jun 2022 - Dec 2022)
Supervised by Dr Micha Germann, University of Bath; Funded by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Book Reviews
Gan, Ruolan (2024) Review of Martialling Peace for International Affairs by Nicole Wegner, International Affairs, 100(2), p. 859-860.
Gan, Ruolan (2024) Review of Wuhan Lockdown by Guobin Yang, Chinese Journal of Communication, 17(2), p. 1-3.
Conference presentations
- International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, Montréal, Canada, Mar 2023
- BISA Working Group on Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect Annual Conference 2022, The European Center for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Leeds, Nov 2022
- The British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) Annual Conference 2022, University of Oxford, Sept 2022
- The 24th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), Palacký University Olomouc, Aug 2022
- Generation Asia 2022 the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) Council Conference, University of Iceland, Aug 2022
- Foreign Policy Analysis Conference 2022, University of Edinburgh, Jun 2022
- The British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2022, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, Jun 2022
- Early Career Researchers and Graduate Students Conference on East Asia 2021, The Scottish Centre for Korean Studies, University of Edinburgh (co-organiser, co-host, and presenter), Sept 2021
Guest lecturing
Topic: The role of interpretative frame in norm contestation and norm implementation (Apr 2023)
Course: Contemporary Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy, convened by Dr Myunghee Lee, University of Copenhagen