Li Xinlei
Position
Associate Professor in the School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University
Educational Background
Ph.D (International Relations)in Environmental Policy Research Center& Center for Global Politics, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Contact
E-Mail: lixinlei@sdu.edu.cn
Office Location
209 # Huagang South Building
Address
Shandong University Qingdao Campus, 72 Binhai Road, Qingdao, Shandong, China 266237
Profile
Dr. Li Xinlei is an Associate Professor in School of Political Science and Public Administration and a Deputy Director of the Environmental Politics Research Institute, Shandong University. She is also a researcher in the Charhar Institute (a well-known think tank in public diplomacy) and a part-time researcher in the Environmental Politics Research Centre in Peking University. She received her doctoral degree in Environmental Policy Research Center& Center for Global Politics, Free University of Berlin, Germany. She specializes in studying energy and environment policy, with a particular focus on renewable energy policy, climate diplomacy and transnational municipal climate networks (TMCNs). Currently, she has extended her research interests to transnational river basin governance & water diplomacy, and environmental risk governance. She has authored one book titled Renewable Energy Policy Change in China: Interlinking the Climate Change Regime and Domestic Pro-Renewable Energy Coalition (2016) and translated one book Environmental Governance in Global Perspective New Approaches to Ecological Modernization (authored by Martin Jänicke and Klaus Jacob) in 2011. She has published a dozen of book chapters and journal papers (China-SSCI), such as “China: From a Marginalized Follower to an Emerging Leader in Climate Politics”, in Rüdiger Wurzel, James Connelly and Duncan Liefferink (eds.) The European Union in International Climate Change Politics:Still Taking a Lead? (Routledge2017); ”Conflict or Cooperation? The Governance Approach and Mechanism of Transnational Rivers” in Foreign Affairs Review (2016) and” The Action Logic of Transnational Municipal Networks (TMNs) in the Global Climate Governance” in International Review(2015). Till present, she has hosted 9 national and provincial level projects, such as "Research on China Clean Energy Diplomacy Strategy "(15CGJ010) and "Strategic Research of China's Peripheral Water Diplomacy Within the Framework of ‘Belt And Road Initiatives’"( 2016T90619).
Research Area
· energy and environment policy
· global and regional climate governance
· city diplomacy and transnational municipal networks
· transnational river governance
Courses
· Western International Relations Theories (in English)
· Methodological Training of Political Science and International Relations (in English)
· Environmental Issues and International Politics (Bilingual)
· Introduction to Geopolitics (Bilingual)
Projects
•Li, Xinlei（2016）.Special Fund of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (9 Patch) "Strategic Research of China's Peripheral Water Diplomacy Within the Framework of ‘Belt And Road Initiatives’" (project number: 2016T90619), the project implementation period is 2016.6-2018.12
•Li, Xinlei（2015）.The National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC) Project "Research on China Clean Energy Diplomacy Strategy " (project number: 15CGJ010), the project execution period is 2015.7-2018.12.
•Li, Xinlei（2015）.Research Fund of Chinese Scholarship Council(CSC) in the Ministry of Education”Research on the Public Goods Supply Mechanism of Transnational Municipal Networks in the Global Climate Change Governance ” ,the project implementation period is 2015.5-2017.5.
•Li, Xinlei（2015）.Social Science Project of Shandong Province” The Green Transformation of Energy Pattern in Shandong Province from the Perspective of Ecological Modernization Theory’, (project number: 15-ZX-LT-13), the project implementation period is 2015.11-2016.11.
•Li, Xinlei（2015）. First-class Fund of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (58 Patch) "Strategic Research of China's Peripheral Water Diplomacy Within the Framework of ‘Belt And Road Initiatives’" (project number: 2015M580580), the project implementation period is 2015.10-2017.12.
•Li, Xinlei（2014）. Basic Science Research Fund of Shandong University ”Research on Trans-national River Conflict and Cooperation Mechanism in Perspective of China's Neighboring Relations” (project number: 2082014HW028), project execution period is 2014.11-2017.11.
Selected Publication(s)
Selected Books and Chapters
•Book-Li,Xinlei(2016). Renewable Energy Policy Change in China: Interlinking the Climate Change Regime and Domestic Pro-Renewable Energy Coalition, China:Shandong University Press, 2016 March.
•Book- Li, Xinlei and Li, Huiming (2011): translating the following book into Chinese, Martin Jänicke • Klaus Jacob (Eds.) Environmental Governance in Global Perspective New Approaches to Ecological Modernization, Published by FFU Berlin 2006. The Chinese translated book was published by Shandong University Press in 2011.
•Chapter-Li,Xinlei(2017). “China:From a Marginalized Follower to an Emerging Leader in Climate Politics”,in Rüdiger Wurzel, James Connelly and Duncan Liefferink (eds.) The European Union in International Climate Change Politics:Still taking a lead?, New York and London: Routledge, Routledge Studies in European Foreign Policy, pp.254-269.
•Chapter-Li,Xinlei(2014).” Research on Transnational Municipal Networks (TMNs) in the Perspective of Glocal Governance” In Qingzhi Huan (ed.) Eco-capitalist:Political Theory and Its Critique,China:Peking University Press,2015 (In Chinese).
•Chapter-Li, Xinlei (2013). “Renewable Energy Policy Evolution in China and Its Implications for EU-China Cooperation on Climate Change” in Frauke Austermann,Wang Xiaoguang and Anastas Vangeli (eds.) China and Europe in 21st Century Global Politics: Partnership, Competition or Co-Evolution?, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 131-160.
Selected Journal Publications
•Li,Xinlei (2017).” Research on Chinese Clean Energy Diplomacy Strategy Under the Framework of ‘Belt and Road Initiatives’”, World Outlook, (CSSCI Journal- Chinese Social Science Citation Index), No.3, Forth coming.
•Li,Xinlei (2017).”The Shift of Global Climate Governance Leadership Pattern and China’s Strategic Choice”,in Journal of Shandong University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), (CSSCI) .No.1, Forth coming.
•Li,Xinlei (2016).”Conflict or Cooperation? The Governance Approach and Mechanism of Transnational Rivers”, in Foreign Affairs Review (CSSCI),No.1,pp.126-152.
•Li, Xinlei (2015).” The Action Logic of Transnational Municipal Networks (TMNs) in the Global Climate Governance——Based on the Self-Governance Theoretical Perspective of International Public Goods Supply”, in International Review (CSSCI), No.5,pp.104-108.
•Li, Xinlei (2015). “The Systematic Reflection of Transnational Municipal Networks (TMNs) in the Global Climate Governance: The Networking Hierarchy in the Perspective of North-South Division”,in Pacific Journal(CSSCI),No.7,pp.38-49.
•Li,Xinlei (2015).” The Green Transformation of Energy Pattern in Shandong Province from the Perspective of Ecological Modernization Theory-- The Real Challenges and Strategic Choices”,in Journal of Poyang Lake,No.3,pp.74-85.
•Li,Xinlei and Song. Tianyang(2014).”Experimentalist Governance in Transnational Municipal Networks: Based on Climate Governance of European Transnational Municipal Networks”, in Chinese Journal of European Studies (CSSCI), No.6, pp.129-148.
•Li,Xinlei (2013).” National Learning Mechanism and Discourse Construction in the International Politics: Greening of the Chinese Energy Security Concept and Its Implications to Energy and Climate Diplomacy”,in Fudan International Studies Review(CSSCI),No.12,pp.243-289.
•Li, Xinlei and Ren, Xiangrong (2012). “The Diffusion Mode in the International Environmental Policy Coordination”, in Journal of Social Sciences (CSSCI), No. 6, pp. 15-25.
•Li, Xinlei and Ren, Xiangrong (2011). “Transnational Municipal Climate Networks in the Global Climate Governance: with Case Study of C40”, in Journal of Social Sciences (CSSCI), No. 6, pp.37-46.
Awards
• The Green Transformation of Energy Pattern in Shandong Province from the Perspective of Ecological Modernization Theory-- The Real Challenges and Strategic Choices”, won the first prize of Excellent Papers in 2014 Social Science Forum of Shandong Province.
• May 1-6, 2012, St. Gallen: “Managing the Climate Change and Energy Risks from Local Low-Carbon Initiatives: Thinking Globally and Act Locally” won St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award 2012: Facing Risk.
