LI Chen is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China; Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at the Chenghai Institute for Global Development and Security; Council Member of the Chinese Association of International Studies, the Chinese Association for American Studies, and the China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies; Special Research Fellow at the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University; Non-resident Fellow at CISS-China Forum of Tsinghua University; PhD from the University of Cambridge; and holder of dual Master’s degrees from the School of International Studies, Peking University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. His main research areas include national security strategy, great-power relations, military security, the history of international relations, and the history of war and strategy. He has published numerous papers in Chinese and English in journals and on websites such as China Military Science, International Politics Studies, China International Strategy Review, National Security Studies, National Security Forum, Contemporary American Review, Journal of Studies of China’s Resistance War Against Japan, Contemporary World and Socialism, China International Studies (English edition), the Journal of Strategic Studies, and Foreign Affairs. He has participated multiple times in international academic exchanges and track-two dialogues on security and strategic issues, including the Beijing Xiangshan Forum, the China-US Security Dialogue, the China-US Crisis Management Dialogue, the China-Russia Security Dialogue, the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, and the China-UK Strategic Stability Dialogue.