Xiaojun Li

Xiaojun Li is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia and a non-resident scholar at the 21st Century China Centre at UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. Previously, he was a Princeton-Harvard China and the World Fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, a POSCO Visiting Scholar at the East-West Center in Honolulu, and an inaugural Wang Gungwu Fellow at the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore.

Xiaojun's research lies at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics. Some of his previous and ongoing work has explored the impact of domestic politics on the process and content of foreign economic and security policies, as well as how global supply chains reshape the politics of trade and investment. Using China as the primary case of inquiry and employing a variety of methods, including interviews, archival research, survey experiments, and large-N analysis, his research aims to shed light on China’s multifaceted global engagements and impacts, as well as the domestic drivers behind them.