Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica

Shane Hsuan-Yu Lin is currently a tenure-track Assistant Research Fellow at IPSAS and a Non-resident Associate at Harvard University′s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. His research interests include examining the impact of social media on international security, with particular emphasis on the critical role played by emerging media in escalating international conflicts. He is also dedicated to exploring the interplay between elites and the public in shaping foreign policy, as well as U.S.-China-Taiwan relations. His work has received support from the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Democratic Statecraft Lab at the University of Virginia, and the U.S. Fulbright Program, and it has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as The Review of International Organizations, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Political Studies Review, and Political Science Quarterly. Lin has previously served as a postdoctoral researcher at IPSAS and as a pre-doctoral research fellow at the Fairbank Center, and he earned his Ph.D. in Politics (International Relations) from the University of Virginia.