Writing archive

Battery Ecosystems: A Comparative Analysis of Lithium-Ion Tech Policy

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Report

With Milo McBride, Herbert Crowther, Bryan Bille, Tom Moerenhout, Walter James, Jonas Goldman, and Daevan Mangalmurti

Why Korea’s President Skipped Washington for Silicon Valley and Brasília

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

Governing AI in the Shadow of Giants: Korea’s Strategic Response to Great Power AI Competition

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Report

From Labor Scarcity to AI Society: Governing Productivity in East Asia

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Report

With Sophie Zhuang

The Iran War Is Also Now a Semiconductor Problem

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

With Tim Sahay

Governing Aging Economies: South Korea and the Politics of Care, Safety, and Work

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Report

South Korea’s Industrial Policy for the New Space Economy

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Report

With Kaylin Kim

South Korea’s APEC Moment

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

Korea Was Betting Big on U.S. Investment. After the Hyundai-LG ICE Raid, It’s Not So Sure.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

South Korea’s New President Made a Huge Diplomatic Move. It Wasn’t His Washington Meeting With Trump

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

Could Short-Term Dealmaking Hurt Long-Term U.S.-South Korea Relations?

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

With Emma Whitmyer

Beyond the Demographic Cliff: Workforce Trends and Economic Adaptation in Hyper-Aged Korea

Korea Economic Institute of America · Report

For South Korea’s New President, Trump’s Tariffs Are an Ultimatum

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

Korea Clean Chip Strategy

Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab, Johns Hopkins University · Report

With Hannah Jeong and Tim Sahay

How South Korea’s New President Can Steady His Country’s Wavering Foreign Policy

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

Duty Calls: Trump’s Tariffs and the Stakes of Korea’s Snap Election

Council on Foreign Relations · Commentary

The Transformation of South Korean Progressive Foreign Policy

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Report

Trump Isn’t Helping Korea’s Alliance Anxieties

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

After the Verdict: South Korea’s Democracy Endures, but Its Partisan Divides Widen

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

Beyond Historical Memory: South Korean Domestic Polarization and U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Cooperation

Asia Policy · National Bureau of Asian Research · Roundtable essay

ROK–U.S. MRO Cooperation and the Political Economy of Alliance Industrial Policy

Research Institute for National Security Affairs, Korea National Defense University · Report chapter

How South Korea’s Democracy Saved Itself

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

What Just Happened in South Korea?

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

Ukraine Is Evolving Into a Proxy Battlefield for Korean Peninsula Tensions

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

North Korea: The Overlooked Challenge for the Next US President

The Diplomat · Commentary

Renegotiate or Retrench? Trump and Harris Offer Stark Choices for U.S.-Korea Relations

The National Interest · Commentary

South Korea Should Be the Next G7 Member

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

South Korean Threat Perceptions: A View from the United States

The Asan Forum · Commentary

2024 Election to Watch: South Korea

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Commentary

Korea-Latin America Partnership: A Keystone in the Architecture of Global Trade and Security

Korea Economic Institute of America · Commentary

In the Middle of It All: Unpacking South Korea’s Foreign Policy Priorities,

Asia Policy · Book review

The Developmental Migration State

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies · Journal article

With Erin Aeran Chung and Yunchen Tian

From 'Six Children per Woman' to 0.7: How South Korea Confronts its 'Population Cliff' and Shrinking Labor Force

Korea Economic Institute of America · Commentary

Across Seoul and Washington: The Multilevel Politics of the US–South Korea Partnership

GW Institute for Korean Studies · Report

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Multicultural at the Meso-Level: Governing Diversity within the Family in South Korea

Pacific Affairs · Journal article

Was Seoul’s deadly Halloween crush preventable?

The Washington Post · Commentary

The Changing Role of Entrepreneurs in Kim Jong Un’s North Korea

National Committee on North Korea · Wilson Center · Report

What President Yoon Suk-yeol’s Election Means for South Korean Democracy

The Diplomat · Commentary

The South Korean Election’s Gender Conflict and the Future of Women Voters

Council on Foreign Relations · Commentary

What Kim Jong-un’s Diplomacy Tells Us about Sino-NK Relations

9DashLine · Commentary

Reframing US-DPRK Nuclear Diplomacy

National Committee on American Foreign Policy · Report chapter

The Politics of Implementing the Korean Comprehensive Military Agreement in the Maritime Domain

National Bureau of Asian Research · Commentary

People’s Groups and Patterns in Neighborhood Surveillance: Another Tool in State Control Over Daily Life

38 North · Stimson Center · Commentary

Biden Has Inherited a Nuclear North Korea

The National Interest · Commentary

The Rise of Women Leaders in North Korea

38 North · Stimson Center · Commentary

Joe Biden Plans to Freshen Up Barack Obama’s North Korea Policy

The National Interest · Commentary

Co-opting the Narrative: How Changing Women’s Roles Provide Legitimacy to Kim Jong Un

38 North · Stimson Center · Commentary

How Do Unification Politics Thwart Ending the Korean War?

The National Interest · Commentary

Inter-Korean Relations and Maritime Confidence-Building

National Bureau of Asian Research · Commentary

Regulating Membership and Movement at the Meso-Level: Citizen-making and the Household Registration System in East Asia

Citizenship Studies · Journal article

With Erin Aeran Chung and Yunchen Tian

South Korea’s Migrant Policies and Democratic Challenges after the Candlelight Movement

Korea Economic Institute of America · Report

Multiculturalism as State Developmental Policy in Global Korea

Korea and the World · Rowman & Littlefield · Book chapter

The Art of the North Korean Deal

China-US Focus · Commentary

Will KORUS Be the Trump Administration’s Next Target on Trade?

China-US Focus · Commentary

Security Hot, Economics Cold at Trump-Moon Summit

East Asia Forum · Commentary

The Economic Side of the Trump-Moon Summit

The Diplomat · Commentary

South Korea’s Presidential Election: Implications for China

China Brief · Jamestown Foundation · Commentary

The Future of South Korean Democracy

The Diplomat · Commentary

Korean Missile Deployment Sees Shifting Strategies in Northeast Asia

IPI Global Observatory · Commentary

The Strategic Rationale for Maritime Tension Reduction in the Yellow Sea

The Washington Quarterly · Journal article

With John K. Warden

The Korean Pivot: Seoul’s Strategic Choices and Rising Rivalries in Northeast Asia

Council on Foreign Relations · Report

With Scott A. Snyder and Sungtae Jacky Park

South Korea Treads Uncertain Path with Park Impeachment

IPI Global Observatory · Commentary

South Korea’s Crackdown on Illegal Fishing in the Yellow Sea

China-US Focus · Commentary

South Korea’s Ongoing THAAD Debate and Sino-U.S. Rivalry

China-US Focus · Commentary

The Struggles of South Korea’s Working Women

The Diplomat · Commentary

What Would a Trump Presidency Mean for the U.S.-South Korea Alliance?

East Asia Forum · Commentary

THAAD and the Politicization of Missile Defense in South Korea

Sino-NK · Commentary

THAAD Deployment and Distrust on the Korean Peninsula

IPI Global Observatory · Commentary

South Korea’s National Identity Crisis in the Face of Emerging Multiculturalism

Georgetown Journal of International Affairs · Journal article

Family Tradition: Modern Representation and the Ideal Woman in Kim Jong-un’s First Year

Change and Continuity in North Korean Politics · Routledge · Book chapter

The Park-Xi Friendship and South Korea’s New Focus on China

China Brief · Jamestown Foundation · Commentary

Stories of Ordinary North Koreans and Human Rights

Council on Foreign Relations · Commentary

South Koreans’ Outlook on China and the United States

Council on Foreign Relations · Commentary

With Scott A. Snyder

Korea’s Immigration Policy Backlash

Council on Foreign Relations · Commentary

The Real South-South Conflict Deepens

Sino-NK · Commentary

First Mover Responses to North Korean Instability: The Intervention-Legitimacy Paradox

International Journal of Korean Unification Studies · Journal article

With Scott A. Snyder

South Korean Multiculturalism and the Next Step in Civic Nationalism

Council on Foreign Relations · Commentary

The Sewol Controversy and Parliamentary Deadlock

Council on Foreign Relations · Commentary

Outward Migration Flows in the Event of Regime Collapse: An Interview with Dr. Go Myong-hyun

Sino-NK · Interview

“Spearing the Hearts” of Our/Those Korean People

Sino-NK · Commentary

Suspicion, Repentance, and Finding Spies in South Korean Media

Sino-NK · Commentary

‘This Is Not a Test’: Yeongpyeong, Media Discourse, and Local Experience Today

Sino-NK · Commentary

Media (Re)constructions of Kim Jong-un’s Ideal Women: Ko Young-hee and Ri Sol-ju

Yonsei Journal of International Studies · Journal article