Rosita Dellios

I lecture and write on the themes of Chinese defence policy, foreign policy and philosophy, geopolitics, and future trends in global politics.

My research interests are China’s defence philosophy and global policy, geopolitics and futures studies.

I supervise research projects on:

• China's foreign and defence policies
• Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist philosophical applications to international relations
• Strategic studies and the role of strategic culture

I have previously supervised PhDs on the topics of:

• The operational history of China's People's Liberation Army
• China's cyber warfare doctrine
• Taiwan's democratisation
• The reconceptualization of citizenship, community and the sacred in the global age
• Buddhist philosophy and global governance
• Japan's human security concepts

As of 2018, I am supervising four PhD topics, three concerning China's foreign relations and one on faith-based diplomacy.