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Yue Lin

UC Berkeley
florenceyuelin@berkeley.edu


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. I am currently a non-residential Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow with the O’Brien Notre Dame International Security Center at the University of Notre Dame (2026-27).

My dissertation, titled Championing Economic National Security in a De-Globalized Era, won the 2025 Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal from Academy of International Business. I investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs) navigate a new transnational political risk: advanced democracies invoking national security to restrict cross-border investment. This shift reshapes the competitive and nonmarket strategy landscape for firms operating across geopolitical divides, raising new questions about how MNEs respond to politicized host-country institutions. First, I trace the political origins of this trend in the U.S. Congress and analyze the nonmarket strategies MNEs use to manage geopolitical risk. Second, I study how societal stakeholders—especially consumers—respond, and how their reactions shape the cross-border diffusion of frontier technologies. Empirically, I combine original data, experiments, and qualitative interviews to explore these questions. From 2023 to 2025, I conducted fieldwork in China, Japan, and the United States.

My other projects center around industrial policy, state-business relationship, and corporate non-market strategy (e.g., lobbying, and information manipulation). 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: May 2026)

Research Interests

Publications

Lin, Y. (2026). “Nationality Backlash: Multinational Corporations in the Shadow of Home-Host State Rivalry.” Online View at Law and Geoeconomics.

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. Sink or Swim Together? How the Rule of Law Affects Cross-Border Investment
    • Under review

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

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

Ongoing Projects

  1. Striking but Fleeting: How Economic Security Shapes Global Firms’ Socio-Political Strategy

  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. Navigating the Chasm: How Political Signal Incongruence Shapes Corporate Nonmarket Strategy (with Jin Hyung Kim)

  5. Manipulating Discursive Funnels: How Businesses Counter Geopolitical Tensions Through Information (with Chengyu Fu)

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

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