My name is Junda Li and I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on International Relations and Comparative Politics.

My research focuses on the political economy of manufacture and production and how it features in great power competition. I explore two questions: (1) how strategies of economic statecraft (sanction/tariff and industrial policy) are employed and exchanged in great power competition, and (2) how these economic statecraft policies are received and absorbed by different market entities along the supply chains. Specifically, I explore the competition in three industries: solar panels, semiconductors, and electric vehicles. In addition to my primary research, I also have several projects on (1) the global politics of elites and inequality, (2) public opinion in changing societies. 

Before coming to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I earned a Bachelor of Law in International Politics from Fudan University (2019) and a Master of Art in Politics from Columbia University (2020). I've lived in six different cities in both the US and China.

You can find my CV here and my departmental webpage here. Feel free to contact me at jli2458@wisc.edu.