Claudia Astarita

Claudia Astarita is an adjunct professor of Politics of China at John Cabot University and Asian Studies at Luiss University, as well as an international relations analyst, focused on India, at CeMiSS, Military Centre for Strategic Studies, in Rome. She obtained her Ph.D. from Hong Kong University in 2010 and worked as a researcher both at the university, as well as at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) from 2006 to 2010. Her main research interests include China’s political and economic development, Chinese and Indian foreign policies, and East Asian regionalism and regional economic integration. Her works have been published by Chinese, Indian, American, English and Italian publishers. In Italy, Claudia Astarita regularly contributes to several newspapers and magazines—such as Il Secolo XIX, Panorama, and EAST—with articles on Asian political, economic, and social issues.