Books
Dialogue with the Dragon: How Strategic Empathy Toward China Can Strengthen Us. Frankfurt: Campus, 2025
Routledge Handbook of Global China (with Maximilian Mayer, Emilian Kavalski, and Xin Zhang). London: Routledge, 2025
China’s International Development Cooperation – History, Development Finance Framework, and Case Studies from Africa. Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2023
Decoding China Dictionary (with David Bandurski et al.). Berlin: The Decoding China Project, 2023
Academic Publications (Selected)
China in Development Finance, in: Financing for Development, IDOS, 2025
China’s Relations with the World Bank: Between Great Power and Developing Country, in: Elgar Companion to the World Bank, 2024
Reciprocity and Relationality in Chinese Aid Discourse, Journal of International Development, 2023
China and the Global South: Many Initiatives, One Narrative, IAI Papers, 2023
China’s Lending Landscape, Approach to Debt, and the Common Framework, ODI, 2021
Media coverage (selection)
Coalition Agreement Views China as a 'Rival': What the Government Must Do Now, Frankfurter Rundschau, 2025
Germany's Negligent Lack of Expertise on China, Tagesspiegel, 2025
Germany Must Build Up Its Expertise on China, Handelsblatt, 2025
Understanding What Xi Jinping Says and Means, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2025
Partners with High Standards: Germany and the Global South, International Politics, 2023
As Macron Arrives in Beijing, What’s Next for Europe and China?, ChinaFile, 2023
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