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Dr Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE. From 2024 to 2025, She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. She earned my PhD in Political Science from UC San Diego in 2024.
Her research examines the challenges that geopolitics poses to globalization. Her dissertation examines how technological rivalry between major economies reshapes the role of governments in trade and investment policymaking, transforming them from advocates of economic openness into active drivers of anti-globalisation policies.
She also studies how firms respond to political tensions by adjusting their investment strategies, as well as how the public in the US and China reacts to great power competition.
Research Cluster affiliation
Expertise
High-tech commercial and industrial policy, economic statecraft, FDI, US-China relations
Research
The Geopolitical Consequences of COVID-19: Assessing Hawkish Mass Opinion in China
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Author(s) Joshua Byun, D.G. Kim, Sichen Li
ISSN/ISBN 0032-3195, Political Science Quarterly, Volume 136, Issue 4, Winter 2021
The Effect of Interpersonal Interaction on the Expression of Anti-Foreign Sentiment: Evidence from a Parallel Survey in the United States and China
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Author(s) Sichen Li, Weiyi Shi
ISSN/ISBN 1468-2478 International Studies Quarterly 14 July 2025