Staff profile

Biography

Ferran's research focuses on three main themes:

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

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

3) The relation between Chinese IR scholars, the Chinese state and the formation of normative views of world order. 

Ferran holds  a Ph.D. in International Relations from Sussex University. Ferran's research has appeared in the American Journal of Chinese Studies and International Politics.

Ferran's work has also appared in media outlets such as El Pais, La Vanguardia and Publico.

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

Journal Article

• 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). The trap of diversity: What constitutes 'non-western IR theory'
• Perez-Mena, F. (2022). Chinese international thought under Maoism (1949-1979): A materialist approach
• Perez-Mena, F., Feligreras, A. H., & Lu, Y. (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