Yue Lin

About Me

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis on Political Economy through the Berkeley Economy & Society Initiative, and a Data Science & AI Fellow at the Data Science Lab. In the dissertation, I study an extreme version of economic de-globalization: the rising trend of advanced democracies leveraging national security to restrict multinational enterprises from both emerging and established markets. First, I unpack why, when, and how political elites in host markets do so in Congress and on social media. Second, I examine the downstream reactions to this disruptive shift among societal groups (e.g., consumers and private firms) and how their responses shape the cross-border diffusion of cutting-edge technologies. I use original and commercial data, survey experiments, field experiments, and elite interviews to explore these questions.

My dissertation, titled Championing Economic National Security in a De-Globalized Era, won the 2025 Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal from Academy of International Business. My other projects focus on political risk, industrial policy, and corporate non-market strategy (e.g., information). I am grateful for funding support from Berkeley Economy & Society Initiative, Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research, Helsinki Geoeconomics Society, and Institute for Humane Studies.

Prior to doctoral studies, I worked at the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University. I received an M.A. in International Economics and International Relations from Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. I earned a B.Soc.Sci. in Government and International Relations from Hong Kong Baptist University, where I was awarded a national scholarship (top 0.05%) and graduated top of my cohort.

You can access my CV here. (Last updated: October 2025)

Research Interests

• Substance: Geopolitics, Economic Security, Congress, Multinational Enterprises, Firm Strategy
• Methodology: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Experiments in Social Science, Qualitative Interview

Publications

Lin, Y. (2025). “How Foreign Investment Fuels Social Conflicts in Africa.” In S. M. Mitchell, V. Nchotu, & L. L. Atanga (Eds.), Legalization of Human Rights in Africa: The Institutionalization of Laws Prohibiting State-Sanctioned Violence and Torture (pp. 149–170). Routledge.

Working Papers

1. Nationality Backlash: Multinational Corporations in the Shadow of Rivalry
   • Revise & resubmit
2. Manipulating Discursive Funnels: How Businesses Counter Geopolitical Tensions Through Information (with Chengyu Fu)
   • Under review
3. Sink or Swim Together? How the Rule of Law Affects Cross-Border Investment

Ongoing Projects

1. Striking but Fleeting: Why National Security Hits Headlines in Regulating Foreign Investment

2. Securitizing the Sophisticated: Technology, Public Opinion, and Economic National Security

3. For Whose Sake? Corporate Motivations Behind Economic National Security
   • Nominated for Best Paper Prize and PhD Paper Prize, Strategic Management Society 2025 Conference

4. Geopoliticized Industrial Policy: Power Rivalries and the Allocation of Government Subsidies (with Boliang Zhu)

5. A Human-Machine Interactive Approach to Record Linkage in Big Datasets via SPLINK Package (with Boliang Zhu and Lingyu Jack Fuca)

6. Transformative Techno-Nationalism: Corporation, Labor, and Automation (with Zhizhen Lu)

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