Junda Li

Great Power Politics, Economic Statecraft, Sanction, Industrial Policy, Technology and Politics

Junda Li is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on the political economy of production and how it features in great power competition. His dissertation mainly explores two questions: (1) how strategies of economic statecraft (such as sanction and industrial policy) are employed and intertwined in great power competition, and (2) how these economic statecraft policies are received and absorbed by different market entities along the supply chains. Specifically, he explores the competition in three industries: solar panels, semiconductors, and electric vehicles.

In addition to his primary research, Junda Li has worked on projects related to (1) the global politics of elites and inequality and (2) public opinion in changing societies.

Before coming to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Junda Li earned a Bachelor of Law in International Politics from Fudan University (2019) and a Master of Art in Politics from Columbia University (2020).