Maria Adele Carrai is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College. Previously Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai, her research examines the history of international law in East Asia and how China’s rise reshapes the international order. She is the author of Sovereignty in China (Cambridge, 2019) and China’s Normative Power in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2027), and co-editor of The Cambridge History of International Law in Asia (2026). She is the founder and Executive Director of Mapping Global China, an initiative combining data and storytelling to illuminate China’s global presence.