Staff profile

Ferran's research focuses on three main themes:

1) The transnational elite connections between Chinese and Western non-state actors and their impact on world politics.

2) The formation of non-Western transnational elite networks and their impact on world politics.

3) The relationship between Chinese IR scholars, the Chinese state, and the formation of Chinese ideas about world politics and world order.

 

Ferran was awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Warwick (declined) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Open University of Catalonia (declined).

 

In 2024, Ferran was awarded a small British Academy grant to study Chinese elites and the production of knowledge.

 

Ferran's work has also appeared in the main national Spanish newspapers such as El País, La Vanguardia, and the national Portuguese newspaper Publico.

• Transnational elite networks in East Asia
• Elite studies and world politics
• Chinese think tanks and foundations
• Modern Chinese international thought
• Global IR and Non-Western IR
• Cross-Strait Relations
• Taiwan politics
• Historical development of capitalism in East Asia
• International Historical Sociology
• Social movements in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
• international relations in East Asia

Authored book

• Perez Mena, F. (2024). Contender States and Modern Chinese International Thought: From the Republican era until the ‘Chinese School of International Relations’. Palgrave Macmillan

Journal Article

• Perez-Mena, F. The trap of diversity: What constitutes 'non-western IR theory'. [Website article]
• Perez Mena, F. (2024). La Sociología Histórica Internacional y el estudio de la China moderna: un enfoque metodológico. Sociología Histórica, 13(1), 139-168. https://doi.org/10.6018/sh.567261
• Perez Mena, F. (2023). Farewell to revolution: the ‘Chinese School of IR’ and the depoliticisation of IR theory in post-Mao China. International Politics, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00468-2
• Perez-Mena, F. (2022). Chinese international thought under Maoism (1949-1979): A materialist approach. American Journal of Chinese studies, 29(2), 91-110
• Perez-Mena, F., Feligreras, A. H., & Lu, Y.-T. (2020). Chiang Ching-Kuo (1910-1988): una vida interesante en el corto siglo XX chino. Brocar. Cuadernos de Investigación Histórica, 127-163
• Perez-Mena, F., González-Pujol, I., & Vidal, L. L. I. (2019). Las contribuciones de la academia china Y japonesa en la Teoría de las Relaciones Internacionales. Más allá del dominio Occidental