Biba, Sebastian

Sebastian Biba, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, as well as an Associate with the Institute of Asian Studies at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg, Germany. In the past, he held visiting positions at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), the University of Sydney, and Peking University. One of his major research interests in recent years has been Europe/Germany-US-China triangular relations. His output on the topic has appeared in leading IR and Area Studies journals such as International Affairs, Journal of Chinese Political Science, and European Foreign Affairs Review. Additionally, Sebastian is the co-editor (with Reinhard Wolf) of the 2021 Routledge volume Europe in an Era of Growing Sino-American Competition: Coping with an Unstable Triangle. His research on other topics has been published, among others, in Security Dialogue, Third World Quarterly, and Journal of Contemporary China, and he is also the author of a monograph on China’s Hydro-politics in the Mekong printed by Routledge.