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"Contributors" [2020] ELECD 464; in Carrai, A. Maria; Defraigne, Jean-Christophe; Wouters, Jan (eds), "The Belt and Road Initiative and Global Governance" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) vii

Book Title: The Belt and Road Initiative and Global Governance

Editor(s): Carrai, A. Maria; Defraigne, Jean-Christophe; Wouters, Jan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 6

Extract:

Contributors
Maria Adele Carrai is a sinologist and political scientist with a strong inter-
est in conceptual history and history of international law. She is a recipient
of a three-year Marie Curie Fellowship at the Leuven Centre for Global
Governance Studies, KU Leuven and a Fellow at Harvard University Asia
Center. Her book Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept Since
1840 (CUP, 2019) looks at the way Chinese intellectuals, political figures,
and diplomats appropriated and articulated the notion of sovereignty in
their foreign policy within the new discourse of international law in the
period between 1840 and the present. Carrai completed her PhD at the
University of Hong Kong, where she was Swire Scholar and a recipient
of the Hong Kong Government PhD Fellowship and the Award for
Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student for 2015­16. She was a
Fellow at Columbia University's Italian Academy, Princeton-Harvard
China and the World Program, European University Institute of Florence,
and New York University Law School. She is also an Associate Research
Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University,
USA.
Jean-Christophe Defraigne holds an MSc in economic history from the
London School of Economics (LSE) and a PhD in economics from the
University of Brussels. He is currently Professor of International and
European Economics at the Institute for European Studies of Université
Saint-Louis Bruxelles and at the Louvain School of Management,
UCLouvain. He is also a Research Fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global
Governance ...