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Yuen Yuen Ang

Alfred Chandler Chair Professor of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University

Yuen Yuen Ang is the Alfred Chandler Chair Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. Ang’s work opens new ways of thinking for a disrupted, multipolar world — marrying deep China expertise with big-picture insights on global transformation and thought. Her books — How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China’s Gilded Age (2020) — applied the lens of AIM (Adaptive, Inclusive, Moral) Political Economy in the context of China’s capitalist revolution, challenging Western-centric and mechanical development models. Her scholarship has received awards across disciplines — including political science, sociology and economics — with prize committees recognising it as “field-shifting” and “game-changing”. At Johns Hopkins, she directs both The Polytunity Project and The Multipolar World & US-China Roundtables. The latter convenes experts across backgrounds in Washington, DC to explore US-China relations in an age of multipolarity and disruptive technology. Ang is from Singapore. To learn more, visit her official website at https://www.yuenyuenang.org/.

Articles by Yuen Yuen Ang

Politics

The polytunity of the post-2025 world order

In a multipolar world where neither the US nor China is the single hegemon, strides in AI and reconfigured globalisation will dominate global transformation. To best harness change, people need a new mindset, says Professor Yuen Yuen Ang.

Yuen Yuen Ang

29 Jan 2026

Economy

The global polytunity

When everything seems to crumble all at once, it could be an opportunity for renewal, rather than collapse, says Professor Yuen Yuen Ang.

Yuen Yuen Ang

19 Jan 2026

Politics

The 2024 Nobel laureates are not only wrong about China, but also about the West

Professor Yuen Yuen Ang notes that this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences should have been awarded 20 years ago, when few would have questioned Western-centric narratives. She contends that in today’s increasingly multipolar world, the simplistic binary of “inclusive, non-extractive” Western democracies versus “non-inclusive, extractive” non-Western non-democracies is misleading.

Yuen Yuen Ang

12 Nov 2024

Society

Why the political fallout from Covid-19 is more serious than SARS

Political scientist Ang Yuen Yuen concludes that given time and circumstance, there is a much higher political price to pay for Covid-19 in the 2020s compared to SARs in the 2000s.

Yuen Yuen Ang

13 Feb 2020