Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt

Project Director, North East Asia & Adviser, China
Beijing, China

Stephanie T. Kleine-Ahlbrandt joined the International Crisis Group  (ICG) in October 2007 as North East Asia Project Director and China Adviser based in Beijing where she supervises the work of a small team of analysts responsible for research and analysis on the role of China in conflict areas around the world. From 2006-2007, Ms. Kleine-Ahlbrandt was an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Prior to that she worked for the United Nations for a decade during which she was responsible for cooperation with the People's Republic of China; served as Officer-in-Charge of the Asia-Pacific region; and as Desk Officer in the Africa Division. Previously, Ms. Kleine-Ahlbrandt was seconded by the U.S. Department of State to the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996) and investigated genocide and other human rights violations for the United Nations in Rwanda (1994-1995). She holds a Masters Degree in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and speaks Mandarin and French. She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Selected publications and media:

• "不确定性的时代下的中日关系", 北京, 4 September 2012,
• "Risk of Accidental Escalation in the South China Sea", International Peace Institute, 6 July 2011,
• “Despite Reports, China's North Korea Policy Stays the Same”, Huffington Post, 21 January 2011,
•  “Forget About the Burmese Elections: It's the growing risk of ethnic violence the world should worry about”, Foreign Policy, 5 November 2010,
• “Beijing wary of Myanmar elections”, Global Post, 3 October 2010,
• “Why China drags its feet on UN sanctions against Iran”, Christian Science Monitor, 11 March 2010
• "Beijing, Global Free-Rider”, Foreign Policy, 12 November 2009,
• “China’s New Dictatorship Diplomacy”, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2008, Volume 87 No. 1, pp 38-56,
• “Beijing cools on Mugabe”, International Herald Tribune, 3 May 2007,
• “China, the Unlikely Human Rights Champion”, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, Policy Innovations, 14 February 2007,
• “China Jumps In”, International Herald Tribune, 2 February 2007.
• From Principle to Practice:  Operationalising the human rights-based approach to United Nations development cooperation and programming, in C. Raj Kumar & D.K. Srivastava, eds., Human Rights and Development: Law, Policy and Governance, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2006, pp. 327-370.
• The Commission on Human Rights and Nigeria: From Pariah to Progress?” in Mool Chand Sharma and Raju Ramachandran, eds., Constitutionalism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law:  Essays in Honor of Soli J. Sorabjee, New Delhi, Universal Law Publishing, 2005, pp. 208-217.
• “Learning Lessons from IDP Resettlement: Villagisation in Northwest Rwanda”, Forced Migration Review, Oxford University Press,  Sept. 2004, pp. 23-25,
• “The United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education:  Role, Activities and Limitations of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights”, in Julie Mertus and Jeff Helsing, eds., Human Rights and Conflict:  New Actors, Strategies and Ethical Dilemmas, Washington, D.C., United States Institute of Peace, 2004.  
• The Protection Gap in the International Protection of Internally Displaced Persons:  the Case of Rwanda  (Second Ed.), Geneva, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, 2004, 259p.  First edition published in 1996 (172 p.) and given the Arditi Award in International Relations
• “The Kibeho Crisis: Towards a More Effective System of International Protection for Internally Displaced Persons”, Forced Migration Review, Oxford University Press, August 1998, pp. 8-11,
• “Skeptical Nigerians Hope for Democracy,” Review of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Spring 1999, No. 14, pp. 6-7

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