[ Current Appointments ]

• Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 2017-
  Professor, Department of Political Science & International Studies
• Deputy Director, Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies (통일연구원)
  Director, Center for International Relations, Aerospace Strategy & Technology Institute
• Visiting Fellow, Institut de recherche stratégique de l'École militaire, Paris, France, 2023-
• Adjunct Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 2023-

[ Previous Appointments ]

• Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
  Assistant Professor, Academy of East Asian Studies (Polisci), 2011-2016
• Vice Director, Sungkyun Institute of China Studies, 2014-2017

• Interactions between Domestic Politics and International Relations
• Security Convergences
  Regions: Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic
  Fields: Military, Economic, Technological, Political, Environment
• Politics of Things
  → Politics of Technology
  → Politics of Forest

• Ph.D. Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles, 2009
• M.A. Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles, 2006
• M.Phil. Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong, 2003
• B.A. Political Science, Yonsei University, 2001
• Exchange Program. Political Science, University of Iowa, 1999
• Certificates(Advanced) in Language Training. Beijing Language University, 2006, 2007

• Member, Advisory Board for Korean Navy, 2022- .
• Head, Brain Korea Program for "Interdisciplinary Political Science Lab of Yonsei University, 2019-2023.
• Member, Advisory Board for Foreign Policy (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), 2020-2022.
• Member, Committee for Future Development of ROK-PRC Bilateral Relations (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), 2021-2022.
• Member, Advisory Board for New Southern Policy (Presidential Office), 2019-2022.
• Member, Appraisal Board on Korean Major Government Projects (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), 2014-2016.
• Member of Korean Political Science Association, Korean Association of International Studies, American Political Science Association, Association of Asian Studies, Korean Association of Party Studies
• External Referee for International Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Modern China, China Information, Democratization, The Review of Politics, Contemporary Politics, Pacific Focus, The Korean Journal of International Studies, Korean Political Science Review, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, China Perspectives, Acta Eurasiatica, National Strategy, International Journal of Korean Unification Studies

[ Articles in Refereed Journals (*SSCI) ]

• "Economic Sanctions by Non-Democracies: A Study of Cases from China and Russia." International Studies Quarterly 67, no. 4 (2023)*: 1-12. doi:10.1093/isq/sqad093. (with Taehee Whang)
• "Online Citizen Petitions Related to COVID-19 in South Korean Cities: a Big Data Analysis." The Annals of Regional Science 71, no. 1 (2023)*: 205–224. (with Sang Yup Lee, Taedong Lee, Sangyoung Lim)
• "Online Citizen Petitions Related to COVID-19 in South Korean Cities: a Big Data Analysis." The Annals of Regional Science (Online First, 2022)* (with Sang Yup Lee, Taedong Lee, Sangyoung Lim)
• "Expansion of Economic Security Concept: A First Cut for 2020s' Security Context." [경제안보개념의 확장: 2020년대 안보 맥락에서] Korean Journal of International Studies [국제정치논총] 62.4 (2022): 325-364.
• "A Study on the Chinese Perception toward South Korea: Focusing on the Park Chung-hee Government." [중국의 한국에 대한 인식 연구: 박정희 정권을 중심으로] Review of International and Area Studies [국제지역연구] 31.4 (2022): 57-92. (with Bin Li)
• "The Quad's Search for Non-Military Roles and China's Strategic Response: Minilateralism, Infrastructure Investment, and Regional Balancing." Journal of Contemporary China, 30.127 (2021): 36-52.* (with Jaejeok Park)
• "Struggling Foreign Small and Medium-Sized Factories in Coastal China: Liquidate, Move, or Fly by Night?" Modern China 46.4 (2020): 433-458.*
• "Asymmetric Barriers in Atmospheric Politics of Transboundary Air Pollution: A Case of Particulate Matter (PM) Cooperation between China and South Korea," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 20 (2020): 123-140.* (with Taedong Lee)
• "The Politics of Chinese Tourism in South Korea: Political Economy, State-Society Relations, and International Security." The Pacific Review 33.2 (2020): 331-355.*
• "An Analysis of Power Succession Process and Authoritarian Regime Stability in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan." [투르크메니스탄과 우즈베키스탄의 권력승계 과정과 체제 안정성 연구] Korean Journal of International Studies [국제정치논총] 59.3 (2019): 265-308. (with Dowon Yun)
• "India's Extended "Act East" Outreach to Northeast Asia: Its Economic and Security Interactions with China, Japan, and South Korea." Korean Journal of International Studies 17.1 (2019): 1-30. (with Rajiv Kumar)
• "Chinese Investment in Foreign Real Estate and Its Interactions with the Host State and Society: The Case of Jeju, South Korea." Pacific Affairs 92.1 (2019): 49-70.*
• "The Rise and Fall of Military Authoritarian Regimes in Early Pakistan (1958-1971): Rules of Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan." [파키스탄 건국 초기 군부체제의 형성과 분열: 아유브 칸과 야히아 칸 사례를 중심으로]." Review of International and Area Studies [국제지역연구] 28.1 (2019): 89-120. (with Hwanbi Lee)
• "Forging a Indo-Pacific Rule-based Order and Prospect for the QUAD Cooperation." [인도태평양 규칙기반 질서 형성과 쿼드협력의 전망] Journal of International Politics [국제관계연구] 23.2 (2018): 5-40. (with Jaehyun Lee et al.)
• "The Institution of Petition and Authoritarian Social Control in Contemporary China." Issues & Studies 54.2 (2018): 185005 (1-28).
• "Sovereignty Issues in a Humanitarian Emergency: The 2008 Sichuan Earthquake." In Carolina G. Hernandez, Eun Mee Kim, Yoichi Mine, and Ren Xiao eds. Human Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in East Asia, (Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018): 41-64.
• "Is South Korea Leaning Toward China? Questioning the Contemporary Application of the Japanese Narrative About the Historical Korean Peninsula-China Linkage." The Pacific Focus 33.2 (2018): 237-259. * (with Seung Hyok Lee)
• "Chinese Suburban Villages' State-Society Relations in Flux: A Factor of Collectively-Owned Land Development." The Korean Journal of International Studies 16.2 (2018): 283-309.
• "An Analysis on the South Korean Central Government-Affiliated Agencies' Public Diplomacy toward China [한국 중앙정부 산하기관의 대중국 공공외교 분석]." [중국학논총] 60 (2018): 85-111. (with Chul Yang)
• "Status and Role of Manchuria-Northeast China in China: History, Political Economy, and Political Security [중국 내 만주-동북 지역의 위상과 역할: 역사적, 정치경제적, 정치안보적 기초 분석]." Discourse 201 [담론201] 21.1 (2018): 123-152.
• "An Analysis of the China's Public Diplomacy toward South Korea during the Xi Jinping Era [중국의 대한국 공공외교 성과와 한계 분석: 시진핑 집권 시기를 중심으로]." Korean Political Science Review [한국정치학회보] 51.5 (2017): 135-160. (with Myungsik Ham)
• "On the Domestic Political Economic Rationales for China's "One-Belt, One-Road" Policy [중국 일대일로 정책의 국내 정치경제적 추동 요인 분석] East and West Studies [동서연구] 29.3 (2017): 185-208.
• "A Study on the South Korean Local Governments' International Exchange with Chinese Local Governments: Its Current Situation, Features and Implications for International Politics [한국 지방자치단체의 대중국 지방정부 국제교류 연구: 현황, 특징 그리고 국제정치적 함의]." Modern China Studies [현대중국연구] 19.3 (2017): 121-162. (with Taeyeon Hwang)
• "Strategies and Policies of South Korean Public Diplomacy: Preliminary Conceptualization of Its Typology [한국 공공외교 전략 및 정책 연구: 기초적 개념의 유형화]." National Strategy [국가전략] 23.3 (2017): 5-31.
• "Domestic Politics, Regional Integration, and Human Rights: Interactions among Myanmar, ASEAN, and EU." Asia Europe Journal 14 (2016): 417-434.*
• "An Analysis on the Korean Public Diplomacy toward China [한국의 대중국 공공외교정책과 실행분석]." Korea and International Relations [한국과 국제정치] 31.3 (2015): 115-142.
• "Lack of Political Resources, the Economically Disadvantaged, and Weapons of the Weak: A Case of Rural Migrant Workers in China [정치적 자원 결여에 따른 경제적 약자의 대응: 중국 농민공의 사례]." Korean Political Science Review [한국정치학회보] 49.3 (2015): 83-111.
• "Which Democratic Institutions Constrain Human Rights Violations?: A Specified Cross-National Study." East and West Studies [동서연구] 27.1 (2015): 135-168.
• "Local Village Workers, Foreign Factories, and Village Politics in Shandong." The China Quarterly 220 (2014): 955-967.*
• "Clientelism with Chinese Characteristics: The Political Economy of Local Patronage Networks in Post-Reform China." Political Science Quarterly (2014) 129.4: 675-702.* (with Richard Baum)
• "Real Estate Development, Social Instability, and New Urbanization Policy in Contemporary China [현대 중국의 부동산 개발, 사회불안정, 신형도시화]." Korean Political Science Review [한국정치학회보] 48.4 (2014): 27-48.
• "Land Developers, States, and Collusive Clientelism in Marketizing China." The Pacific Focus 29.1 (2014): 68-91.*
• "Petition Politics in Contemporary China: Political Participation, Contentious Politics, and Governance in an Authoritarian Regime [현대 중국의 탄원(信訪, Petition)정치: 권위주의정권의 정치참여, 쟁의정치, 그리고 거버넌스]." Korean Political Science Review [한국정치학회보] 47.5 (2013): 367-388.
• "I Want to Be Expropriated!: The Politics of Xiaochanquanfang Land Development in Suburban China." Journal of Contemporary China 21.74 (2012): 261-279* (with Kihyun Lee)
• "Economic Development and Mass Political Participation in China: Determinants of Provincial Petition (Xinfang) Activism 1994-2002." International Political Science Review 33.1 (2012): 98-119*
• "From Autonomous Areas to Non-Autonomous Areas: The Politics of Korean Minority's Migration in Contemporary China." Modern China 38.1 (2012): 110-133* (with Myungsik Ham)
• "Authoritarianism and Humanitarian Aid: Regime Stability and External Relief in China and Myanmar." The Pacific Review 24.4 (2011): 439-462.*
• "Citizenship and Physical Education in Ancient Greece and Ancient China." The Review of Politics 66.1 (2004): 7-34. (with Daniel A. Bell)
• "Legalistic Confucianism and Economic Development in East Asia." Journal of East Asian Studies 3.3 (2003): 461-492. (with Chaibong Hahm)

[ Working Papers ]

• "Economic Sanctions by Non-Democracy" (Revise and Resubmit, International Studies Quarterly)
• "Revisiting the Russia-India-China Trilateral Relations after the Ukraine War" (Working Paper)
• "Mapping Korean Politics of Forest" (Working Paper)
• "Conceptualizing Politics of Forest" (Working Paper)

[ Policy Reports and Beyond ]

• "China and Russia Disagree on North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons." The Diplomat (June 2024).
• "South Korean Defense Industry Goes Global, and Local Too: An Econo-Tech Approach." ISPI Dossier (April 2024).
• "The Korean Defense Industry Enters the European Security Theater: An Analysis of Korea-Poland Arms Deals." IRSEM (Ecole Militaire) Research Paper no. 140 (February 2024).
• "South Korea’s Emergence as a Defense Industrial Powerhouse." Asie.Visions, Ifri no. 139 (February 2024).
• "China’s Ambivalence on North Korea-Russia Security Alignment." The Diplomat (November 2023).
• "NATO, AP4, and Korea Relations in Flux: A Short Assessment of the NATO Vilnius Summit 2023." Korea On Point (August 2023).
• "Korea Looks to the Pacific: A First Cut with the 1st Korea-PIC Summit." IFRI Lettre du Centre Asie no. 105 (July 2023). (with Céline Pajon)
• "Korea Looks to Europe: Its Growing Military-Strategic Cooperation with NATO." IDSP Issue Brief (May 2023).
• "Evolving Korea-NATO Relations: Global, Indo-Pacific and Korean Perspectives." CSDS Policy Brief (February 2023). (with Yoon Jung Choi)
• "Evolving Korea-NATO Relations: Global, Indo-Pacific and Korean Perspectives" CSDS Policy Brief (02/2023) (with Yoon Jung Choi)
• "The Russia-India-China Trilateral After Ukraine: Will Beijing Take the Lead?" China Brief (The Jamestown Foundation) 22:16 (9 Sept 2022) (with Jagannath Panda)
• "Comparative Analysis of Global Views and Strategies [India] in The Future of US-China Competition for Technological Hegemony: Analysis on the Global Strategies and Its Implication for the South Korean Strategy (미중 기술패권경쟁의 미래: 세계의 전략과 한국외교에의 제언) (Seoul: National Assembly Future Institute, 2021) 57-64.
• "Review and Outlook of Current India-China Relation (최근 인도-중국 관계 변화와 전망)" 외교 (Diplomacu) (외교협회) 140 (2022): 82-98.
• An Analysis of South Korea's Economic Dependence on China: Implications for Its Political Economy and Foreign Policy (한국의 대중국 경제의존도 분석: 정치경제적 외교전략적 함의) (서울: 외교부, 2021) (with Dongkyu Kim et al.)
• A Study on Conceptualizing Politics of Forest in South Korea (한국의 산림정치 개념 정립 등 생태계 구축에 대한 연구) (대전: 산림청, 2021) (with Hyunhwa Lee et al.)
• Policies for Online Political Participation in Post-Covid 19 Era (포스트코로나 시대의 온라인 정치 참여 발전방안) (Seoul: 대통령직속 정책기획위원회, 2020) (with Jaemook Lee et al.)
• Formulating a Plan for Articulating New Southern Policy via Minilateralism (신남방정책의 심화를 위한 소다자협력 추진방안) (Seoul: MOFA, 2020) (with Myungchul Kim et al.)
• The Quad Countries' Indo-Pacific Strategies and Ensuing Responses by South Korea (쿼드 국가의 인도-태평양 전략과 한국의 대응) ASAN Report (Seoul: Asan Institute of Policy Studies, 2020) (with Jaehyun Lee et al.)
• Formulating Strategies of Digital Diplomacy (디지털외교전략수립방안)(Seoul: MOFA, 2019) (with Doohwan Ahn et al.)
• Formulating a Plan for Enforcing National Security Cooperation between South Korea and India (한국-인도 국방안보협력 강화 방안) (Seoul: MOFA) (with Sungyong Park et al.)
• Formulating Strategies of Cultural Diplomacy in the 4th Industrial Revolution Era (4차 산업혁명에 따른 문화외교 추진전략) (Seoul: MOFA, 2018) (with Wha Wun Jho et al.)
• "Politics in China in 2018: Politics, Diplomacy, Economy and Society [2018년 중국 전망: 정치, 외교, 경제, 사회 中 정치] Sungkyun China Focus (성균차이나포커스) 32 (2018): 5-15.
• White Paper of Public Diplomacy between Republic of Korea-People's Republic of China 2010-2016 [한중공공외교백서 2010-2016] (Seoul: MOFA, 2017) (with Chul Yang et al.)
• "The Case Study: Turkmenistan [투르크메니스탄 사례연구]." in Study on North Korea's Regime Sustainability with a Reflection on the Recent Situation in the Middle East [최근 중동사태에 비추어본 북한 체제지속성 연구] (Seoul: Korean Institute of National Unification, 2016): 83-111.
• "Logics and Strategies of Korea's "Unification" Diplomacy toward China" [대중국 통일외교의 논리와 전략], in Developing Contents of "Unification of the Two Koreas" Diplomacy [통일외교 콘텐츠 개발] (Seoul: Korean Institute of National Unification, 2015): 35-61.
• Korean Diplomatic Offices' Public Diplomacy Results 2014 I & II [2014 재외공관 공공외교 활동성과 I, II]. (Seoul: Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2015)
• Harmonious Diplomacy between the United States and China: Domestic(Korean) and International Case Studies [대미대중 조화외교: 국내 및 해외 사례연구]. Korean Institute of National Unification, Study Series 14-10 (2014). (with Kyu Ryun Kim et al.)
• "China Studies in the US: A Survey [미국의 중국연구 동향]" Sungkyun China Brief 2.2 (2014): 170-175
• Domestic Politics and Foreign Policies of the Northeast Asian Countries in the Era of Obama-Xi Jinping Leadership and the North Korea and Unification Diplomacy Strategy of South Korea [오바마-시진핑 시대의 동북아 국가들의 국내정치 및 대외정책과 한국의 대북 및 통일외교 전략] KINU (Korean Institute of National Unification) Study Series 13-05 (2013) (with Jungho Bae et al.)
• "Report on International Academic Symposium: Myanmar in Reform 2013 개혁 속의 미얀마 2013 국제 심포지엄 리포트](University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2013)." Sungkyun China Brief 1.4 (2013): 151-156.
• "Research Institutes on China in the US [미국의 중국연구기관]" Sungkyun China Brief 1.3 (2013): 194-200.
• "An Eternal China Watcher: In Memory of Richard D. Baum (1940.7.8-2012.12.14) [영원한 중국통(China Watcher): 고 리차드 바움(Richard D. Baum, 1940.7.8-2012.12.14)을 기리며]." Sungkyun China Brief 1.2 (2013): 142-147.
• "What Is a Survival Strategy of the Xi Jinping's Chinese Communist Party Regime": Social Stability through Sustained Development, Redistribution, and Anti-Corruption" [시진핑의 중국공산당정권 생존전략은? 성장, 재분배, 반부패를 통한 정치사회 안정] Sungkyun China Brief 1.1 (2013): 56-63 (translated into Chinese: 白宇烈, 2013 "?近平?中?共??政?生存的?略" (成均中??察) 1.1: 43-49.)
• "A Comprehensive Analysis of Chinese Communist Party's 18th National Party Congress" [중국공산당 제18차 전국대표대회 종합적 분석] Sungkyun China Focus 1 (December 2012)
• "Has Chinese Politics and Society Become Unstable Again?" [중국의 정치사회는 다시 불안해지는가?] East Asia Brief 7:2 (May, 2012): 108-115.

[ Book Reviews ]

• "Book Review." The China Quarterly 232 (2017) on Christian P. Sorace, Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017)
• "Good Omen or Chilling Portent for China: Politics, Disaster, and People in 1976." The Pacific Affairs 87.1 (2014) On James Palmer, Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao's China (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
• "Leading to the Politics of Sport." The Review of Politics 72.3 (2010): 563-566. On Mark Golden, Greek Sport and Social Status (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008)
• "Bridging Three Worlds." The Review of Politics 68.4 (2006): 714-716. On G.E.R. Lloyd, Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)

[ Op-Eds ]

• "Foreign Policies Stuck in Northeast Asia No More: It's Time for Establishing Korean 'Global Strategy'" (The Korea Economic Daily, 11 May 2022)
• "Public Diplomacy for Comprehensive Soft Power" (Kukminilbo, 10 May 2022)
• "The Era of Catching-Up is Over: The New President Must Propose 'a New Independent Strategy for Korean Statecraft" (The Korea Economic Daily, 5 January 2022)

• Korean Forest Service Project Grants, 2021, 2022
• Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Project Grants, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
• National Research Foundation of Korea, Brain Korea Plus Phase IV, 2019-2024.
• National Research Foundation of Korea, New Researcher Grant, 2012-2013; 2014-2015; 2015-2017.
• National Research Foundation of Korea, Social Science Korea Grant, 2012-2015.
• Sungkyunkwan University, Faculty Research Grant. 2011-2012.
• Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, Doctoral Fellowship. 2008-2009.
• UCLA, Center for Chinese Studies, Summer Language Fellowship. 2006, 2007.
• UCLA, Graduate Division Fellowship. 2004-2009.
• Ilju Foundation, Doctoral Fellowship. 2003-2008.
• City University of Hong Kong, Graduate Division Research Fellowship. 2002-2003.
• City University of Hong Kong, Department Research Grant. 2002-2003.