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 his PhD stage, Shi Jing has completed academic internships at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (Tbilisi, Georgia), Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), Yerevan State University and Center of Analysis of International Relations (Baku, Azerbaijan). 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.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:

• Shi J., ‘New Developments in the Security Situation in the Caucasus and China’s Concerns’, International Affairs: Politics, Economics and Law,2025(01):68-79.

• Shi J., Wang T., ‘Historical Memory in Eurasia's ‘New Intermediate Zone’ Countries: Historical Footnotes in Contemporary Nation-Building’, Russian Studies,2024(03):143-171.

• Shi J., ‘Identity Anxiety in National Reconstruction: Taking Georgian Historical Memory as a Clue’, Academic Journal of Russian Studies, 2024(03):99-123.

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

• Niblock, T. and Shi J., ‘Exploration of International Experience and Prospect of Area Studies -- Interview with Professor Timothy Niblock’, Russian Studies, 2023(2):3-21.

• Shi J., ‘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+161-162.

• Shi J. and Wu D., ‘The Historical Memory of Georgia: Panorama and Details in Nation’s Development and Transformation’, Russian Studies, 2021(5):79-110.

• Wu D. and Shi J., ‘Russia's Science and Technology Innovation Governance towards 2035 and China-Russia Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation’, Forum on Science and Technology in China,2020(11):13-15.

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

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

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

Book Chapters:

• Shi J. (2023) ‘The Grand View of the Caucasus’ in Zhang J. et al.(eds.) The World, the People and the Fieldwork: Selected Fieldwork Notes of IIAS, Tsinghua University, (Beijing: The Commercial Press)

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