iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Zikun Yang

@zikunyang.bsky.social

116 followers 182 following 13 posts

杨子堃 PhD Candidate, POLIS, University of Cambridge China and international order(ing), International relations/treaty negotiations/diplomatic history Forcible humanitarian action & global environmental governance

Posts Replies Media

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

So honored! As @giofabman.bsky.social’s first PhD student, I’ve had a privileged front-row seat to his brilliance. Giovanni is the gold standard in academia: a legendary scholar equally dedicated to the growth and well-being of his students. So grateful for his exceptional support at Cambridge! 👩‍🎓🎉✍️🥂

020

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Thank you! 😊

010

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Thank you and congratulations on your new special issue!

010

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Thank you for being the best supervisor ever😊🙏

010

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Thank you Carl! 😊

010

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

@campolis.bsky.social

010

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Many thanks to those who helped me along this journey! (End)

110

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I illustrate the diversified causes and consequences of status (dis)satisfaction with the case of China’s inconsistent compliance a the nascent global environmental order from 1950 to 1972. This case contains multinational/multilingual archival accounts I collected from 2022-23. (6/n)

100

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A status-sensitive state thus navigates upward recognition-seeking and downward deference-seeking, and responds to various status (dis)satisfaction scenarios with competitive socialization, cooperative socialization, or defiance. (5/n)

100

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

My framework of multiple audiences dynamic thus reconceptualizes status-seeking as a three-actor social arrangement among a state, the social superiors/peers, and the social inferiors. (4/n)

110

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

But this truncated view not only overlooks the bottom half of the status hierarchy, but mistakes status discontent, the mistreatment and misperception by great powers, as a source of revisionism and belligerent responses. (3/n)

100

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

My article offers a new perspective on diversifying the causes and consequences of status dissatisfaction. Conventional wisdom holds a unidimensional view of international status competition as (dyadic) interactions between the upstarts and the established powers. (2/n)

100

Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Extremely thrilled to share that my article "The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis) satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972" is now published #openaccess in @ejir.bsky.social at doi.org/10.1177/1354...! (1/n)

doi.org

The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis)satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972 - Zikun Yang, 2025

How does status dissatisfaction shape a state’s behavior? Existing literature suggests that mistreatment and misconception by the great powers could elicit a st...

3153