Books

In progress

South Korean Industry and the Forging of National Power (working title)

2023

The Multilevel-Level Politics of U.S.-Korea Relations (editor), George Washington University Institute of Korean Studies

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2023

“Multicultural at the Meso-Level: Governing Difference within the Family in South Korea,” Pacific Affairs 96, no. 4 (2023): 701-722.

*Awarded Holland Prize for Best Pacific Affairs Article of 2023

“The Developmental Migration State,” with Erin Aeran Chung and Yunchen Tian, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Special Issue: Rethinking the Migration State (2023): 1-20.

2019

Erin Aeran Chung, Darcie Draudt, and Yunchen Tian. Regulating Membership and Movement at the Meso-Level: Citizen-making and the Household Registration System in East Asia. Citizenship Studies 24, no 1 (2019): 76-92.

2017

Darcie Draudt and John K. Warden (2017). The Strategic Rationale for Maritime Tension Reduction in the Yellow Sea. The Washington Quarterly 40, no. 4 (2017): 183-197.

2016

Darcie Draudt (2016). South Korea’s National Identity Crisis in the Face of Emerging Multiculturalism, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 17, no. 1.

2015

Scott A. Snyder and Darcie Draudt (2015). First Mover Responses to North Korean Instability: The Intervention-Legitimacy Paradox. International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, 24, no. 2 (2015).

Book Chapters

2019

Multiculturalism as State Developmental Policy in Global Korea. Korea and the World: New Frontiers in Korean Studies, Gregg A. Brazinsky, ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

South Korea’s Migrant Policies and Democratic Challenges after the Candlelight Movement. Korea Economic Institute of America Academic Paper Series.

2016

Darcie Draudt (2016). Family Tradition: Modern Representation and the Ideal Woman in Kim Jong-un’s First Year. Change and Continuity in North Korean Politics, Adam Cathcart et al., eds. New York: Routledge.

Working Papers

“Dividing the Diaspora: South Korea’s Return Migration at the Nexus of Ethnicity and Development”

“Framing the National Family: Contingent Kinship And Immigration In South Korea” (in progress)

“Explaining Generational Gaps in Foreign Policy Priorities: The Role of Transborder Networks in the US–South Korea Alliance” (in progress)

“Regime Trajectories under Strong Authoritarian Legacies: Chile and South Korea in Comparative Perspective,” with Maximiliano Véjares (in progress)

Policy Essays and Op-Eds

(past five years)

2022

“Was Seoul’s Deadly Halloween Crush Preventable?” Monkey Cage at the Washington Post

“The South Korean Election’s Gender Conflict and the Future of Women Voters,” the Council on Foreign Relations

“The Changing Role of Entrepreneurs in Kim Jong Un’s North Korea,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the National Committee on North Korea

“What President Yoon Suk-yeol’s Election Means for South Korean Democracy,” The Diplomat

2021

Reframing US-DPRK Nuclear Diplomacy. National Committee on American Foreign Policy. (See NCAFP podcast interview about the paper.)

“The Politics of Implementing the Korean Comprehensive Military Agreement in the Maritime Domain,” National Bureau of Asian Research

2020

“How Do Unification Politics Thwart Ending the Korean War?” The National Interest

“Inter-Korean Relations and the Maritime Domain,” National Bureau of Asian Research

“Biden Has Inherited a Nuclear North Korea,” The National Interest

“Joe Biden Plans to Freshen Up Barack Obama’s North Korea Policy,” The National Interest

2017

“The Korean Pivot: Seoul’s Strategic Choices and Rising Rivalries in Northeast Asia,” with Scott A. Snyder and Sungtae Jacky Park, Council on Foreign Relations