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
Book
2021
The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions
Journal Article
2022
The economic case for Germany cozying up to China is surprisingly weak
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license
DIIS Policy Brief
2021
Understanding Beijing’s evolving statecraft
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license
Book
2014
China, India, and the global struggle for oil in Sudan and South Sudan