Yiming Song is an Associate Professor at the School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Beijing Foreign Studies University, where he concurrently serves as Director of the Department of Diplomacy. He received his PhD in Political Science, with a specialization in International Political Economy, after completing his studies at the Central University of Finance and Economics and Renmin University of China. He was a Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on theories of international and comparative political economy, the political economy of energy and climate change, and China’s economic diplomacy and economic statecraft. He is currently engaged in two ongoing research projects: “The Pathology of Natural Resources” and “The Emergence and Evolution of International Institutional Competition”. His monograph, The Political Origins of the “Energy Curse”: Economic Modernization, Industrial Coalitions, and Property Rights Systems, was published in 2024. He has co-translated several academic works, including Rethinking Power, Institutions, and Ideas in World Politics: Whose IR? (2019) and The Dollar and National Security: The Monetary Component of Hard Power (2018). He has also served as a contributing editor to multiple volumes of the China Economic Diplomacy Blue Book (2018, 2019, 2020). Professor Song has been awarded a Youth Project grant from the National Social Science Fund of China. He has published more than twenty articles in leading academic journals, including World Economics and Politics, Foreign Affairs Review, Quarterly Journal of International Politics, and Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. His personal website is available at: https://sym915.github.io/.