Dr. Sabine Mokry

Researcher

Contact

+49 40 86 60 77-37

mokry@ifsh.de

Hamburg

ORCiD

Vita

Sabine Mokry is a researcher in the research and transfer project Arms Control and Emerging Technologies. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Leiden University (Netherlands). For the 2023-2024 academic year, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program.  Before pursuing her PhD, she worked at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) as a research associate focusing on China’s foreign and security policy. She studied International Relations and China Studies at the University of Passau, Free University of Berlin and at Nanjing University (China).

Research profile

Arms control
China’s foreign and security policy
Security cooperation between autocracies
Military uses of new technologies (AI)

Memberships & professional activities

Associate, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Latest Publications

Mokry, Sabine. 2026. Chinese Scholars and Think Tanks' Constructions of China's National Interest. Hidden Hand on Demand. Rethinking Asia and International Relations. Abingdon: Routledge.
Mokry, Sabine. 2024. The Resurgence of Ideology Under Xi Jinping and International Relations Scholarship in China. International Studies Perspectives 26 (4): 456-476. DOI: 10.1093/isp/ekae014.
Mokry, Sabine. 2024. China’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric between Orchestration and Cacophony. The Pacific Review 37 (2): 360-387. DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2023.2175895.
Mokry, Sabine. 2023. Grand Strategy and the Construction of the National Interest: The Underpinnings of Sino-US Strategic Competition. International Politics 61 (4): 742-760. DOI: 10.1057/s41311-023-00452-w.
Mokry, Sabine. 2022. What is Lost in Translation? Differences between Chinese Foreign Policy Statements and Their Official English Translations. Foreign Policy Analysis 18 (3): orac012. DOI: 10.1093/fpa/orac012.