Dr. Li Li is a senior research professor and the Deputy Director of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, China. She also serves as the Deputy Secretary-General of World Peace Forum and Chinese Association for South Asian Studies, respectively. She is currently also a nonresident senior fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, and the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly Journal of International Politics, a top CSSCI (Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index) journal.

Prior to joining Tsinghua in April 2018, she worked as a deputy director and a senior fellow at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations. She received her doctorate degree in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University of India in January 2008.

She is the author of Security Perception and China-India Relations (New Delhi: KW Publishers, 2009). Her current research interests include China-India relations as well as politics and security in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region.

Address: Room 305, Mingzhai, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.

Tel: 86-10-62798409

Fax: 86-10-62798083

Email: lili_thiir@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn; jasmineli3@yahoo.com

Main English Publications

Book

Li Li: Security Perception and China-India Relations (New Delhi: KW Publishers, 2009)

Chapters in Books

1. Li Li: “China’s Policy towards Sri Lanka,” in H.M.G.S. Palihakkara ed., The Island of the Lion and the Land of the Dragon: Essays on Sri Lanka-China Relations (Colombo: Pathfinder Foundation, 2017)

2. Li Li: “The Indian Growth Model: A Chinese Perspective,” in G.V.C. Naidu, Mumin Chen and Raviprasad Narayanan ed., India and China in the Emerging Dynamics of East Asia (New Delhi: Springer, 2015)

3. Li Li: “Stability in Southern Asia: China’s Perspective”, in Ashley J. Tellis and Sean Mirski ed., Crux of Asia (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2013)

4. Li Li: “China and India: Geopolitical Center of Asia in 2030,” in Ajey Lele and Namrata Goswami ed., Imagining Asia in 2030: Trends, Scenarios and Alternatives (New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2011)

Papers

1. Li Li: “The U.S. Factor and the Evolution of China-India Relations,” The China Review, Vol.23, No.1, 2023.

2. Li Li: “China’s Afghanistan Policy in a Post-US Era,” East Asian Policy, Vol.14, No.1, 2022.

3. Li Li: “BRICS: A Limited Role in Transforming the World,” Strategic Analysis, Volume 43, Issue 6, 2019.

4. Li Li: “India’s Advance East Strategy and Its Indo-Pacific Diplomacy”, Contemporary International Relations, Vol.28, No.3, May/June 2018

5. Li Li: “Maturing China-India Relations and Analysis”, Contemporary International Relations, Vol.23, No.3, May/June 2013

6. Li Li: “Nontraditional Security and China’s Relations with South Asia,” in Ecological and Nontraditional Security Challenges in South Asia, NBR Special Report #28, June 2011

7. Li Li: “India’s Engagement with East Asia and the China Factor”, Contemporary International Relations, No.5, September/October 2010

8. Li Li: “India’s Security Concept and Its China Policy in the Post-Cold War Era,” The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 2, 2008