Luke Patey
Senior Researcher
Foreign policy and diplomacy
Bio
Primary research areas
Luke Patey's research focuses on economic security, industrial competitiveness, emerging technologies, and economic coercion and sanctions within Europe-China relations, US-China relations, and the Indo-Pacific region. He also examines the impact of oil and extractives on conflict and development in Africa and China’s relations with the Global South.
Patey is author of How China Loses: The Pushback Against Chinese Global Ambitions (Oxford University Press USA, 2021) and The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan (Hurst, 2014). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, and The Hindu.
Patey has been a visiting scholar at the United Nations University (Tokyo), the Social Science Research Council (New York), Peking University (Beijing), and Centre d'études et de recherches internationals (Paris). Patey holds a BSc (Hons.) in commerce from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada) and a MSc and PhD from the Copenhagen Business School.
Featured publications
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Book
2021
The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions
Luke Patey
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Journal Article
2022
The economic case for Germany cozying up to China is surprisingly weak
Luke Patey
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Report
2022
Can Europe stay ahead in green and 5G technologies?
Luke Patey
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DIIS Policy Brief
2021
Understanding Beijing’s evolving statecraft
Luke Patey
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Book
2014
China, India, and the global struggle for oil in Sudan and South Sudan
Luke Patey
Research and activites
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DIIS Book2018Danish Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North AfricaRasmus Alenius Boserup, Luke Patey & Hetav Rojan
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2017How a Botched Peacekeeping Mission Is Undermining AbeLuke Patey
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Working papers etc.2017Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, and prospects and risks for oil in East AfricaLuke Patey
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Journal Article2017China’s overseas oil investments in Sudan and South SudanLuke Patey
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2017Luke Patey
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2016Xi Jinping's Latin America tourLuke Patey
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2016And that’s setting off a dramatic shift in the economic balance of power on the continentLuke Patey
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseWorking papers etc.2015Hard bargaining and complex politics in East AfricaLuke Patey
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2015Luke Patey
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Report2014China, India, Russia, Brazil and the two SudansDaniel Large & Luke Patey
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseBook2014China, India, and the global struggle for oil in Sudan and South SudanLuke Patey
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Book Chapter2012oil, environment degradation, and armed conflict in SudanLuke Patey
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Book Chapter2011China, India & the politics of Sudan's Asian alternativesDaniel Large & Luke Patey
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Journal Article2011Washington's role after Southern secessionHarry Verhoeven & Luke Patey
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DIIS Working Paper2010China and India in Sudan's transitionDaniel Large & Luke Patey
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Journal Article2010oil and the resource curse in SudanLuke Patey
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Journal Article2009the Sudan divestment campaignLuke Patey
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DIIS Report2007Lessons for Sudan after the Comprehensive Peace AgreementLuke Patey