Delighted to have a new article, co-authored with Lize Yang, published in @chinaquarterly.bsky.social We examine how aggressive journalistic questioning may have fueled the rise of China's "wolf warrior diplomacy". The article is open access. Feel free to dive in! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

When studying IO legitimation, we often focus on normative claims, which emphasize IO legitimacy warrants by asserting IO governance is congruent with established norms, to the exclusion of operational claims, which aim to justify IOs' legitimacy deficits.