Songying Fang
Education
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2006 

Academic Appointment

• Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Rice University, 2015 -
• Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Rice University, 2009 - 2015
• Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, 2005 - 2009

Research Interests

• International Institutions: Theory and Practice of the UN, ICJ, IMF, WTO, AIIB
• International Conflict: Territorial Disputes, Alliance Politics, State-building, Peacekeeping Operations
• Applied game-theoretic modeling
• US-China Relations, Chinese Foreign Policy

​Awards and Fellowships

• Visiting Scholar, Kobe University, Japan, July 2016
• Visiting Scholar, University of Mannheim, Germany, June 2014, 2015
• National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2012-2013                                                                                               Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University, 2012-2013
• Fellow, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University, 2007-2008                                                                                      ​Theories of International Political Economy and China Conference
• University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Fall 2007 (declined)
• University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid 2006-2008
• W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy Fellowship, 2004-2005
• EITM Best Poster Award, MPSA, 2004 (with Kristopher W. Ramsay)
• University of Rochester Fellowship, 2000-2004

Publications

• Forthcoming. Historical Ownership and Territorial Indivisibility (with Xiaojun Li).                                                                              Journal of Politics​
• 2018. China's Evolving Motivations and Goals in UN Peacekeeping Participation (with Xiaojun Li and Fanglu Sun)​     International Journal 73(3):464-473.
• ​2017. Mixed Signals: IMF Lending and Capital Markets (with Terry Chapman, Xin Li, and Randy Stone)                               British Journal of Political Science 47(2): 329-349.           Related Blog Post
• 2014. To Concede or To Resist: The Restraining Effect of Military Alliance (with Jesse Johnson and Ashley Leeds).  International Organization 68 (4):775-809.        
• 2014 Compromised Peacebuilding (Online Appendix) (with Michael Barnett and Christoph Zurcher).                             International Studies Quarterly 58: 608-620.        Related Blog Post
• 2014. Institutional Opposition, Regime Accountability, and International Conflict (with Daina Chiba).                              Journal of Politics 76(3): 798-813.
• 2014. New Alignments? The Geopolitics of Gas and Oil Cartels and Changing Middle East (with Amy Jaffe and Ted Temz). Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy 3(1).
• 2012. International Organizations as Policy Advisors (with Randy Stone).                                                                     International Organization 66 (4): 537-569. 
• 2011. International Institutions and Credible Commitment of Non-Democracies (with Erica Owen).                                     Review of International Organizations 6: 151-162. 
• 2010. The Strategic Use of International Institutions in Dispute Settlement (Online Appendix).                                                    Quarterly Journal of Political Science 5(2): 107-131.
• 2010. Outside Options and Burden Sharing in Nonbinding Alliance (with Kristopher W. Ramsay).                                     Political Research Quarterly 63(2):188-202. 
• 2008. The Informational Role of International Institutions and Domestic Politics.                                                                      American Journal of Political Science 52(2): 305-321.

Working Paper

• ​Territorial Indivisibility and Domestic Preference for Dispute Resolution: Evidence from Japan (With Xiaojun Li, Atsushi Tago, and Daina Chiba)

Others

• Will of Minority: Rule of Four on United States Supreme Court (with Tim Johnson and Jason Roberts)

Publications in Chinese
Book

• Market Economy and Government Intervention. The Commercial Press (商务印书馆), Beijing China 1998 (Co-authored).

Translation

• Modern Business Cycle Theory (Edited by Robert Barro, Harvard Press 1989). The Commercial Press  (商务印书馆), Beijing China 1997. Reprinted in 2018.

Policy Analysis

• “特金会”或延期，破解美朝互信难题需要第三方提供可靠承诺。2018-5-23澎湃新闻 外交学人专栏    (Trump-Kim Summit May Postpone: Breaking the US-DPRK Mistrust Requires A Credible Commitment from a Third Party. The Papers, May 23 2018)

• 特朗普当选不是平民击败精英，而是平民之间出现了沟通危机。2016-11-23澎湃新闻 外交学人专栏    (Trump Victory Not a Defeat of the Elites by the Masses, but a Result of Deep Division in the American Electorate. The Papers, Nov 23 2016) 
• 让世界听懂中国倡议：外交话语需清楚表述中国自身利益。2016-01-06 澎湃新闻 外交学人专栏  (China Should Explain Self-interest More Clearly in Its Foreign Policy Initiatives. The Papers,  Jan 6 2016)

​Association Membership

• American Political Science Association, 2000-present
• Midwest Political Science Association, 2002-present
• International Studies Association, 2002-present
• Peace Science Society, 2003-present