LI Junyang
Ph.D. of Law; Senior Research Fellow;
Deputy Director of 《World Economics and Politics》
Email: lijunyang@cass.org.cn
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor at Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) (2016 onwards); also teaches at University of CASS and supervises master students at Graduate School of CASS.
Formerly assistant research professor at China Foreign Affairs University (2013-2016); Gastwissenschafterin in Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Universität Heidelberg (2019-2020)
RESEARCH INTEREST
Thucydides, International Politics.
EDUCATION
Renmin University of China, Beijing, 2004-2013.
Doctor in International Politics (2010-2013), Master in International Relations (2008-2010), under supervision of Professor SHI Yinhong; Bachelors in International Politics (major) and Computer Sciences (minor) (2004-2008).
Yale University, CT: New Haven, Fulbright Ph.D. Grantee, 2012-2013
Visiting Assistant in Research at Department of Classics, under auspices of Professor Donald Kagan.
MONOGRAPH
LI Junyang, Wars and the Decaying Freedom, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, forthcoming.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
LI Junyang, "Realism of ἀνάγκη (Necessity): the Thucydidean Framework of Power", World Economics and Politics (CSSCI), forthcoming.
LI Junyang, "Decision to Conquer Sicily (415): the Political Economics of Imperialist Overstretch", Quarterly Journal of International Politics (CSSCI) XIII (4) (Winter 2017), 28-67.
LI Junyang, “To Fear or to Acquiescence? the Spartan Pre-War Maritime Strategy (479-431 B.C.) revisited”, World Economics and Politics (CSSCI) XXXI (3) (Mar 2017), 108-123.
LI Junyang, “Sparta Goes to Seas: Strategic Deadlock, Diplomatic Revolution, Political Degradation”, Foreign Affairs Review (CSSCI) XXXII (5) (Sept 2015), 93-116.
LI Junyang, “Tyche Imagined as Rome: Polybius on Polis, Freedom and Peace”, Fudan Review of Political Philosophy VI (2015), 147-167.
LI Junyang, SHI Yinhong, “Empires and its Dynamics, Inertia, and Limits: the Herodotean Inquiries”, Journal of Renmin University of China (CSSCI) XXVI (1) (January 2012) 99-108.
LI Junyang, SHI Yinhong, “From Nomos to Institutions: Evolving Epistemology concerning Great Powers”, Quarterly Journal of International Politics XXVIII (Winter 2011) 108-129.
TRANSLATIONS
Donald Kagan, trans. LI Junyang, the Archidamian War, the Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, the Fall of the Athenian Empire in 3 volumes (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2017-2020.
Nick Turse, trans. LI Junyang, Kill Anything that Moves: the Real American War in Vietnam (New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 2013), Beijing: China Friendship Publishing Co., 2016.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS
“Thucydidean theory of power”, research grant for young scholars, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2020-2021.
"'Thucydides' Trap", research grant for young scholars, the National Social Sciences Fund, 2018-2021.
Chinese Leaders in American Studies Fellowship, US-China Education Trust, 2015.
"Maritime strategy for continental powers", research grant for affiliated scholars, Innovative Collaboration Center for National Territorial Sovereignty and Maritime Rights, 2015.
"Decisive battles and making of strategic traditions", Research grant for new faculty members, China Foreign Affairs University, 2014-2015.
"Persia, Athens, Rome in classical and hellenistic historiography", research grant for graduate students, Renmin University of China, 2011.
"Empires and its Dynamics, Inertia, and Limits: the Herodotean Inquiries", Best Masters’ Theses Award, Renmin University of China, 2010.
First Prize in National Olympiad in Informatics (Provincial), 2002.
COURSES
“Thucydides” (for graduate students)
“World Economics and Politics (International History after 1945)”, “International History (1648-1945)” (for undergraduate students)
LANGUAGES
Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese), English, French, German, and classical Greek.