Shi Jing is currently a research fellow at the Institute for International and Area Studies, Tsinghua University. He earned his doctorate from Tsinghua University in August 2020, focusing on the Russia-Georgia War of 2008. Since the PhD stage, Shi Jing has completed academic internships at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (Tbilisi, Georgia) and Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University). During the 2018-2019 academic year, he was a visiting fellow at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. From 2022 to 2023, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. His primary research interests revolve around the politics and international relations of the South Caucasus region, with a particular emphasis on Georgia. In addition to his doctoral thesis, his recent publications focus on issues related to the Caucasus region.

• “The People-to-People Exchange Between China and Georgia in the Framework of the Belt and Road Initiative,” Expert Opinion, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, 2023(216):3-14.

• “The Grand View of the Caucasus,” in The World, the People, and the Fieldwork: Selected Fieldwork Notes of IIAS, Tsinghua University, eds. Zhang J. et al. (Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2023):168-177.

• “The International Experience and Prospects of Area Studies - An Interview with Professor Timothy Niblock,” Russian Studies, 2023(02):3-21.

• “Caucasian Studies from the Perspective of Russian Academic History: A Special Case on the Attribute of ‘Boundary’,” Russian, Central Asian, and Eastern European Studies, 2022(06):73-92.

• “A Trip to the ‘Secret World’: The Search for Georgia’s Mountain Elements,” in The Global as Field Site:10 Years of Area Studies at Tsinghua University, eds. Gao L. et al. (Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2022):38-55.

• “The Historical Memory of Georgia: Panorama and Details in Nation’s Development and Transformation,” Russian Studies, 2021(5):79-110.

• “Russia’s 2035-oriented Science and Technology Innovation Governance and China-Russia Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation,” Forum on Science and Technology in China, 2020(11):13-15.

• “The Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus and the Regional Separatism Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Era,” Russian Studies, 2019(5):141-168.

• “Research on Russia’s Motivation for Promoting Triangular Relations between China, Russia, and India,” Journal of Contemporary Asia-Pacific Studies, 2019(4):83-114.

• “The Development of the Silk Road Economic Belt in Georgia: Achievements, Progress, and Prospects,” Asian and African Studies, vol. 13-2018(1):83-99.