Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova is a political scientist, China scholar, head of the Political Science Ph.D. program and China Studies Centre at Riga Stradins University, head of the Asia program at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs, and a member of the China in Europe Research Network (CHERN) and the European Think Tank Network on China (ETNC). Since defending her doctoral dissertation on traditional Chinese discourse, she has held a Senior Visiting Research Scholar position at the Fudan University School of Philosophy, Shanghai, and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar position at the Center for East Asia Studies at Stanford University. Bērziņa-Čerenkova is a European China Policy Fellow at MERICS and an affiliate of the Lau Institute at King’s College, London.
Bērziņa-Čerenkova publishes on People’s Republic of China political discourse, contemporary Chinese ideology, EU-China relations, Russia-China, and BRI. Her most recent monograph is “Perfect Imbalance: China and Russia” (World Scientific, 2022).
