Zitong Yang

Zitong Yang

Fellow

Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for International and Area Studies, Tsinghua University

zitongyang@fas.harvard.edu
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Areas of Expertise

Field
International Relations
Political Science/Government
Regional Studies
Time Period
Present Day
Post-Soviet period
Topic
development
energy
institutions
natural resources
transition
Location
Caspian Sea
Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Zitong Yang is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Politics at Tsinghua University and currently serves as the Rotating Coordinator of the Eurasian Studies Section at the Institute for International and Area Studies. Between 2023 and 2025, he spent a total of 20 months as a visiting researcher at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Uzbekistan and at KIMEP University in Kazakhstan. His primary research interests include the geopolitics of Eurasia, the governance of resource wealth in Eurasian states, and regional economic cooperation and development in Central Asia.