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Research interests
Foreign and Security Policy of China | Political Economy of China | China-Taiwan Relations
Profile
Dirk Schmidt studied Political Science, Modern History and English at the Universities of Saarbrücken and Newcastle upon Tyne from 1989 to 1995 and learned Chinese in Taiwan. After graduation, he worked at the Institute of Political Science at Saarland University and completed his doctorate at the Center for Politics of China and East Asia under Jürgen Domes on a thesis on Chinese foreign policy. Since 2004, he has been employed at the Chair of Politics and Economics of China at the University of Trier, which he represented from 2013 to 2018. His work focuses on political economy, foreign policy and foreign economics of the People's Republic of China, and China-Taiwan relations.
A detailed curriculum vitae of Dr. Schmidt can be found ► here.
Research
China-Taiwan Relations (in particular, the People's Republic of China's use of unconventional and hybrid tools such as “lawfare”)
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Dirk Schmidt: Recht als Waffe. Wie juristische Kriegführung liberale Demokratien gefährdet. Lehren aus dem Beispiel Taiwan. RHI Position Nr. 26, München: Roman Herzog Institut, 2026.
The publication can be downloaded HERE.
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Joachim Schild und Dirk H. Schmidt (2024): EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China. The End of Naivety, Abingdon and New York: Routledge (UACES Contemporary European Union Series).
Book Reviews: L. Johan Eliasson (2024): EU and US Foreign economic policy responses to China, the end of naivety: by Joachim Schild and Dirk Schmidt, London and New York, Routledge/UACES, 2024 Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 32(2), 594–596.
Hanns W. Maull (2024): The Rise of Economic Nationalism. In: Survival 2024 66 (2), 157-164.
A more detailed selection of his publications can be found ► here.
