Dr Alice Politi
College Research Associate
Research interestsDr Alice Politi is a Research Associate at the Centre for Geopolitics and at St John’s College at the University of Cambridge. She is also a non-resident Research Associate Fellow at the NATO Defense College. During her PhD in International Relations at King's College London, she was also a Policy Advisor at the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the 2024 Eisenhower Defense Fellow at the NATO Defense College. Her doctoral research focused on EU-China relations during the presidency of Xi Jinping, with a focus on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. More broadly, her research concentrates on China’s geopolitical behaviour and foreign policy under Xi Jinping. Alice has previously collaborated as a Policy Consultant with the UK FCDO and participated in projects with the European Commission and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.