Feng Zhang is Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and Department of Political Science. A political scientist and interdisciplinary scholar, he specializes in China’s foreign policy, Asian international relations, and international relations theory. He is the author of Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History (Stanford University Press, 2015) and A Neighbor of Neighbors: China’s Policy Toward Afghanistan, 1949-2024 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). He is co-author, with Richard Ned Lebow, of Taming Sino-American Rivalry (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Justice and International Order: East and West (Oxford University Press, 2022). His peer-reviewed scholarship appears in leading disciplinary and area studies journals, and his commentary has been featured in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other international outlets. He has held teaching positions at Tsinghua University, Murdoch University, the Australian National University, and the South China University of Technology. In 2024, he was a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center.