Dr. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova is a political scientist, Chinese scholar, Head of the Doctoral Program in Political Science and the Center for Chinese Studies at Riga Stradins University, Head of the Asia Program at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs, member of the China in Europe Research Network (CHERN) and the European Think Tank Network on China (ETNC). After defending her PhD on Traditional Chinese Discourse, she served as a Senior Visiting Research Scholar at Fudan University School of Philosophy in Shanghai, China and as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Center for East Asia Studies. Bērziņa-Čerenkova is a European China Policy Fellow at MERICS and a Fellow of the Lau Institute at King's College, London.

China Studies | Discourse Politics | Sino-Russian Relations

Dr. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova publishes on PRC political discourse, contemporary Chinese ideology, EU-China relations, Russia and BRI; her most recent monograph is Perfect Imbalance: China and Russia (World Scientific, 2022). She is currently working as a fellow of the Academy of International Affairs NRW on an anthology on the political discourse in China.