Roie Yellinek

Lecturer and and Director of the Writing Center

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About

Dr. Roie Yellinek received his doctorate from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan. Dr. Yellinek serves as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He’s the Director of the Writing Center at the Ono Academic College and an external lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. Additionally, he is a researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA Center) and a research fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington. He is an expert in the expanding relationship between the Middle East and China, especially regarding the soft power component of Chinese diplomacy.

Education

Ph.D

Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University (2020)

M.A.

Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat- Gan (2014)

B.A.

Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat- Gan (2011

Teaching Areas

Writing, organizations and leadership.

Research interests

China-Middle East relations, an exploration of soft power and discourse

Selected Publications

Roie Yellinek, Et al (2020) Chinese ‘Soft Power Pipelines Diffusion’ (SPPD) to the Middle Eastern Arab Countries 2000-2018: A Discursive-Institutional Study, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Roie Yellinek, Et al (2020) Chinese Soft-Power in the Arab world - China’s Confucius Institutes as a central tool of influence, Comparative Strategy, 39: 6, 517-534
Roie Yellinek, Et al (2019) China’s Soft Power in China-Iran Relations, The Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies, 4, 39-65
Roie Yellinek, Et al (2021) Out of sight… out of mind: China’s Soft Power Pipes Drilling Strategy in Israel, Social Issues in Israel, forthcoming.
Yossi Mann and Yellinek, Et al (2021) The New Chinese Oil Benchmark: Implications for the Middle East Middle East Policy, Volume27, Issue 4, Winter 2020