# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yan-xuetong
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:32:05.087Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yan-xuetong"
name: "Yan Xuetong"
slug: "yan-xuetong"
description: "Yan Xuetong is a Chinese political scientist and serves as a distinguished professor and dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University. Yan is one of the major Chinese figures in the study of international relations (IR). He is the founder of 'moral realism', a neoclassical realist theoretical paradigm in IR theory. His moral realist theory is based on political determinism."
tagline: "Chinese academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yan_Xuetong_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1952-12-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.69
  momentum:             3.842364532019705
  historical:           7.034956
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Xuetong"
    title: "Yan Xuetong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Xuetong"
    title: "Yan Xuetong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Xuetong"
    title: "Yan Xuetong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%A1%D1%8E%D1%8D%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BD"
    title: "Янь Сюэтун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Syuetong"
    title: "Yan Syuetong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%8E%E5%AD%A6%E9%80%9A"
    title: "阎学通"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump