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Lucie Lu

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Lucie Lu

Asst Professor

international development, global governance, political communication, renewable energy, human rights

Caldwell Hall 211A

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Bio

Welcome! I am Assistant Professor at the department of Political Science at North Carolina State Univeristy.

Previously, I was Assistant Professor at the department of International Studies and Global Affairs at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas. I was also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center on Contemporary China at Princeton University, and the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program at Columbia University.

Policy-wise, I was a non-residential Project Fellow at the Penn Project on the Future of US-China Relations and in the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), where I provided academically-informed, policy-relevant analysis on US-China relations.

I received my Ph.D. in political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2023. My dissertation received a Best Dissertation Award from the department.

I study how China uses economic statecraft and strategic narratives to shape global norms in areas ranging from human rights to renewable energy. Drawing on large-scale text analysis in multiple original datasets, my research shows how the influence of such a rising power is mediated and constrained by recipient states and firms.

I currently teach Politics of China and Japan (PS342) and The Politics of East Asia (PS546).

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    • Education

    Ph.D. Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2023

    Area(s) of Expertise

    I study the international political economy of China’s global governance, focusing on how its outward influence intersects with diverse political responses from both elites within international organizations and domestic stakeholders, including firms and citizens, whose agency shapes the host countries’ developmental pathways. My research examines how rising powers like China use economic statecraft to reconfigure global orders and norms, spanning both the evolution of established liberal norms like human rights, and the emergence of new issue areas, including renewable energy transition and technology competition.

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