Francisco is an Associate Professor at the Political Science Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the Director of Millennium Nucleus of China's Impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean, funded by the Ministry of Science of Chile. He is affiliated with the Center for International Studies and the Center for Asian Studies at PUC UC. In 2022-23, he was a resident Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington DC and has been a Fellow of the Chilean Fund for Scientific and Technological Development in Initiation and Regular Grants. Since 2019 he is the Editor of the Revista de Ciencia Política. He received a joint PhD degree from the University of São Paulo and King's College London in the field of International Relations. His research focuses on issues related to the International Political Economy, with a particular emphasis on emerging powers, particularly China-Latin American relations.

Recent Publications

Articles

• (2023) Shaping the liberal international order from the inside: A natural experiment on China’s influence in the UN human rights council
  
  
• (2023) “They own our country!” voter reaction to anti-China rhetoric: The case of the presidential election in Brazil in 2018
   
• (2023) Undermining U.S. reputation: Chinese vaccines and aid and the alternative provision of public goods during COVID-19 

• (2022) with Diego Telias. China’s Foreign Aid Political Drivers: Lessons from a Novel Dataset of Mask Diplomacy in Latin America during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. DOI: 10.1177/18681026211020763

• (2022) with Juan Carlos Gachúz Maya. Geopolitics and Geoeconomics in the China–Latin American Relations in the Context of the US–China Trade War and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. DOI: 10.1177/18681026221098770

• (2021) with Giovanni Agostinis. The Nexus between Authoritarian and Environmental Regionalism: An Analysis of China’s Driving Role in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Journal Problems of Post-Communism. https://doi/full/10.1080/10758216.2021.1974887

• (2021) Urdinez, Francisco & Long, Tom. 2021.  Status at the Margins: Why Paraguay Recognizes Taiwan and Shuns China. Foreign Policy Analysis. Volume 17, Issue 1

• (2020) with Daniela Campello Voter and Legislator Responses to Localized Trade Shocks from China in Brazil. Comparative Political Studies.

• (2020) The accession of Latin American countries to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: lessons from Brazil and Chile. Asian Education and Development Studies. 

• (2020) with Tom Long Status at the Margins: Why Paraguay Recognizes Taiwan and Shuns China. Foreign Policy Analysis. 

• (2020) with Juan Enrique Serrano Moreno, Diego Telias Deconstructing the Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America. Asian Education and Development Studies. 

• (2019) with Jan Knoerich. "Contesting Contested Multilateralism: Why the West Joined the Rest in Founding the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank". The Chinese Journal of International Politics. doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poz007

• (2019) with Pietro Rodrigues and Amancio de Oliveira. "Measuring International Engagement: Systemic and Domestic Factors in Brazilian Foreign Policy from 1998 to 2014". Foreign Policy Analysis. 1-22. ISI.

• (2018). with Jing-Lin Duanmu. “The dissuasive effect of U.S. political influence on Chinese FDI during the ‘Going Global’ policy era”. Business & Politics, 20, 38-69. SCOPUS.

• (2018). with Jan Knoerich and Pedro Feliu Ribeiro. “Don’t Cry for me ‘Argenchina’: Unraveling Political Views of China through Legislative Debates in Argentina”. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 23(2), 235-256. SCOPUS.

• (2017) with Nicole Jenne and Luis Schenoni. "Of words and deeds: Latin American declaratory regionalism, 1994-2014". Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 30(2), 195-215. ISI.

• (2017) with Pedro Feliú Ribeiro. “Are there two presidents in Argentina? A comparative analysis of legislative support for foreign and domestic policy (2001-2014)”;Revista de Ciencia Política, 37(1), 95-119. ISI.

• (2016). with Fernando Mouron, Luis Schenoni and Amâncio de Oliviera. “Chinese economic statecraft and US hegemony in Latin America: an empirical analysis, 2003–2014”. Latin American Politics and Society, 58(4), 3-30. ISI.

• (2016) with Fernando Mouron and Luis Schenoni. “Sin espacio para todos: China y la competencia por el Sur”. Revista CIDOB d'afers internacionals, (114), 17-39. SCOPUS.

• (2016) with Camilo Lorez Burián and Amâncio de Oliveira. “MERCOSUR and the Brazilian Leadership Challenge in the Era of Chinese Growth: A Uruguayan Foreign Policy Perspective”. New Global Studies, 10(1), 1-25. ProQuest.

• (2016) with Fernando Mourón and Janina Onuki. “Framing effects on foreign policy: experimental evidence from emerging countries and the Argentine-Brazilian rivalry”. Opinião Pública, 22(1), 195-218. SCOPUS.

• (2015) with Gilmar Masiero. “China and the WTO: Will the Market Economy Status make any difference after 2016?”. Chinese Economy, 48(2), 155-172. SCOPUS.

Books

• Urdinez, F. & Cruz, A. (2020). R for Political Data Science: A Practical Guide. . CRC Press.

Press

• Cómo Paraguay quedó atrapado en la histórica pelea entre Taiwán y China (y qué tiene que ver el coronavirus). BBC News Mundo, 2021

• China y sus desafíos. CNN Chile. 2021

• China-Latin America 2.0. Taiwan’s Last Stand in South America. Americas Quarterly. 2020

• Argentina’s Financial Crisis Creates an Opportunity for China. Bloomberg Businessweek. May 21, 2019

• Trade war could chill China’s growing investment in US economy. The Conversation. July 16, 2018

• Las relaciones triangulares: Sobre cómo la hegemonía de Estados Unidos ha condicionado la asertividad china en América Latina, Red CAEM, Noviembre, 2017.

• ¿Para qué bando juega China en la crisis norcoreana?. Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica. 22 mayo, 2017

• Pensar una Política Comercial Competitiva desde el Pacífico. Fundación Centro de Estudios Internacionales Contemporáneos. 31 agosto, 2017.

Courses Taught

• ICP0327 Introducción a la Economía Política Internacional (pregrado)

• ICP5425 Relaciones Internacionales entre China y América Latina (magíster)

• ICP 5929-1 Métodos Cuantitativos II (doctorado)