Jihye Park

Jihye Park

Postdoctoral Researcher · University of Geneva

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. My research spans various topics in international political economy, particularly with a focus on how preferences of multinational corporations (MNCs) shape global trade governance. My recent inquiry carries these firm-level preferences into geopolitics of AI compute policy. I use finetuned large language models, combined with statistical and causal inference methods, to study these questions.

My latest working paper, Expand and Exempt, argues that US chip export controls are security statecraft that private interest hollows out from within. To keep widening the controls, the state compensates the firms that lose most, the chipmakers and equipment suppliers at the base of the AI compute stack, with carve-outs and CHIPS Act subsidies. Those same firms hold the chokepoints behind US leverage over China, so the relief they win reopens part of what the controls were written to close. You can follow the development of this exciting project here. My work has appeared in International Studies Quarterly and Review of International Organizations, among others.

I am on the 2026-27 academic job market.

For those who are curious about how to pronounce my first name, it's [JEE-hey] in phonetic spelling. It means "wisdom" in Korean, just for your extra piece of information :)

If you'd like to know more about me when I'm off-duty, visit my Attic and get a sneak peek of my life as a painter and a LEGO aficionado! And one last thing - Go BILLS!🏈

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