CWP alum Wendy Leutert named to the '2026–27 Members in the School of Social Science' at IAS
The School of Social Science provides a collaborative and generative environment for curiosity-driven social research. The 2026–27 Member cohort brings together 21 scholars from institutions across the United States and around the world, each pursuing independent projects that together reflect the remarkable depth and breadth of contemporary social science—touching on questions of global political economy, technology and power, race and democracy, and law and social control, among others.
2026–27 Members in the School of Social Science
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Wendy Leutert
Political Science
Indiana University
Leutert is Associate Professor and the GLP-Ming Z. Mei Chair of Chinese Economics and Trade at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. Her research focuses on Chinese political economy, specifically the historical evolution and global expansion of China’s state-owned enterprises. Her work also addresses the politics of economic reform, Sino-Japanese policy engagement, corporate governance, and international investment and trade. She is the author of China’s State-Owned Enterprises: Leadership, Reform, and Internationalization (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
Project: China, Policy Diffusion, and Emerging Forces in Global Political Economy
This project examines the historical emergence of China and its companies as forces in global political economy and its contemporary implications. Her book manuscript, “The International Origins of China’s National Champions,” analyzes how Chinese state-owned enterprises became leading actors in the domestic and global economies. It introduces the concept of “policy collage”—seeking, selecting, and combining policy ideas and practices from multiple international sources—to explain China’s distinctive developmental model and non-convergence with advanced capitalist economies. The project extends the book’s analysis to the deepening fusion of public and private power in China and beyond, and its consequences for global governance.
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