Hengyi Yang（杨恒一）

Hello! I'm Hengyi Yang. I'm a REMIT PhD Researcher at Maastricht University.

My research crosses technology politics and network analysis. I'm interested in how emerging technologies, especially AI, are shaping interstate interactions and global governance. My work also examines the domestic foundations behind these international dynamics.

Methodologically, I’m particularly interested in network analysis. I tend to think of politics as relational: what actors do often depends on who they interact with, where they are positioned, and the relationships around them. This makes network dependencies a central consideration of my empirical research. I use a range of descriptive and inferential network methods: community/phase detection, ERGMs, TERGMs, REMs.

Email: hengyi.yang@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Office: Zwingelput 4, 6211 KH Maastricht

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Journal Articles

1. Combining Rules and Capacity: Domestic Sources of China’s Dual Approach in Global AI Governance , with Catherine Yuk-Ping Lo, Geopolitics (2026).
2. The Latinized Dragon: China and Latin America in the Twenty-First Century , with Ignacio Arana Araya, Latin American Research Review (2022).