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School of Economics and Management, University of MinhoMARIA (MARY) PAPAGEORGIOU

Ph.D. Candidate of Political Science and International Relations (University of Minho)

Maria Papageorgiou is a Ph.D. candidate of International Relations at the School of Economics and Management, University of Minho, Portugal. She holds a Master of Arts in International Political Economy from Panteio University, Greece, and a bachelor’s degree in International and European Studies from Piraeus University. Maria has also been visiting researcher at ICD in Berlin, Germany, Institute of International Economic Relations, Athens, Greece and at the University of Maribor, Slovenia.

Research Areas

International Relations Theory

Geopolitics

International Cooperation

Strategic Studies

International Politics

Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Publications

The Role of Private Companies in Great Powers’ Geoeconomic Competition: the Cases of TSMC and Samsung

Law & Geoeconomics

Publication date: 2026

Type of publication: Journal Article

URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/29505720-bja00014

The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races

Geopolitics

Publication date: 2026

Type of publication: Journal Article

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2025.2572695

Economic Coercion as Foreign Policy Signalling: China’s Punitive Measures Against France, 2008–2009

Journal of Geoeconomics

Publication date: 2026

Type of publication: Journal Article

URL: https://doi.org/10.65963/jgeoecon.2026.73926

Africa’s Geopolitical Landscape

Publication date: 2025

Type of publication: Book Chapter

URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032655857-11

Social Media, Disinformation, and AI: Transforming the Landscape of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Political Campaigns

The Johns Hopkins SAIS Review of International Affairs

Publication date: 2025

Type of publication: Magazine Article

URL: https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/social-media-disinformation-and-ai-transforming-the-landscape-of-the-2024-u-s-presidential-political-campaigns/

Trump’s Middle East pivot aims to counter China’s rising influence

The Conversation

Publication date: 2025

Type of publication: Magazine Article

URL: https://theconversation.com/trumps-middle-east-pivot-aims-to-counter-chinas-rising-influence-257366

Geopolitical Dynamics in the South Atlantic: The Maritime Strategies of Brazil, China, and the European Union

Publication date: 2025

Type of publication: Book Chapter

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-1169-3_63

The Five Eyes Allies and China: Assessing Threat Perceptions and Power Dynamics

Journal of Chinese Political Science

Publication date: 2025

Type of publication: Journal Article

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-025-09913-w

Standing in-between— Gulf States in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Under New Security Dynamics: The GCC, Saudi Arabia and Qatar

Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

Publication date: 2025

Type of publication: Journal Article

URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/23477970241298755

Alignment as a process: Explaining the trajectory of the Sino–Russian relationship

European Journal of International Security

Publication date: 2025

Type of publication: Journal Article

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2025.10030

The Israel-Palestine Conflict and China’s Actorness in the Middle East: A challenge to US influence,

Georgetown Journal for International Affairs

Publication date: 2024

Type of publication: Magazine Article

URL: https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2024/10/28/the-israel-palestine-conflict-and-chinas-actorness-in-the-middle-east-a-challenge-to-us-influence/

Assessing the Changing Sino–Russian Relationship: A Longitudinal Analysis of Bilateral Cooperation in the Post-Cold War Period

Europe-Asia Studies

Publication date: 2024

Type of publication: Journal Article

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2023.2276677

Strategic Partnerships and the Promotion of Bilateralism: The Case of Sino-Russian Relationship

Publication date: 2024

Type of publication: Book Chapter

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-5640-7_6

China as a Threat and Balancing Behavior in the Realm of Emerging Technologies

Chinese Political Science Review

Publication date: 2024

Type of publication: Journal Article

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-024-00248-0

A ‘Soft’ Balancing Ménage à Trois? China, Iran and Russia Strategic Triangle vis-à-vis US Hegemony

Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

Publication date: 2023

Type of publication: Journal Article

URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/23477970231152008

A ‘Soft’ Balancing Menage a Trois? China, Iran and Russia Strategic Triangle vis-a-vis US Hegemony

Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

Publication date: 2023

Type of publication: Journal Article

URL: https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/59991990/

China as a Responsible Power Amid the COVID-19 Crisis: Perceptions of Partners and Adversaries on Twitter

Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Publication date: 2022

Type of publication: Journal Article

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-022-00344-y

Not one inch: America, Russia, and the making of post-Cold War stalemate

Publication date: 2022

Type of publication: Book Review

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac089

Mapping the Literature on China and Russia in IR and Area Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis (1990–2019)

Journal of Chinese Political Science

Publication date: 2022

Type of publication: Journal Article

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-021-09768-x

Interregionalism Initiatives to Counter the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Cases of EU, ASEAN, AU and Mercosur

Publication date: 2021

Type of publication: Other

URL: http://europepmc.org/abstract/PPR/PPR367400

Chinese Diplomacy, Strategic Partnerships and Global Economic Supremacy

Publication date: 2021

Type of publication: Book Chapter

URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85107510673&partnerID=MN8TOARS

A Friend in Need? The Sino-Russian Relationship Under the Coronavirus Crisis in Twitter: a Russian Perspective

East Asia

Publication date: 2021

Type of publication: Journal Article

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12140-021-09361-2

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