Associate Professor and Director of the Korea Studies Program; Academic Adviser for the
U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS
Expertise Geographic Areas
North Korea | South Korea Background and Education
Former faculty member of Cornell University's Department of Government; was visiting professor at Seoul National University, research professor at Yonsei University, visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and visiting fellow at University of California, Irvine; recipient of the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship, the SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing World, an East-West Center Fellowship and a Smith Richardson Foundation grant; was a reporter in New York City; Ph.D., political science, University of Pennsylvania Foreign Languages
Korean Publications
Power, Interest and Identity in Military Alliances (2007); Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power and Efficiency, co-editor (2004); American New World Order After the Cold War, co-editor (1996, published in Korea); numerous articles and book chapters on military balance on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea's weapons of mass destruction and U.S. security policies toward the Asia-Pacific region; currently working on a book on the international relations of East Asia and an edited volume on North Korea |
