Dave Kang

This is amazing from Tom. Great work.

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This is awesome.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WWT...

Trump’s Truth Social post on the trade deal with South Korea. Lately I’ve been following the Korean far-right’s push to get Trump engaged in its election fraud conspiracy theories, but the trade deal actually seems to have squashed those efforts. 1/

And, Noelle is starting as an assistant professor at the University of Northern Iowa this summer! Go KSI! She spent two years with us and we were proud to have her!

Proud to publish with Dr. Noelle Troutman about North Korea! Our bottomline? Don't hold your breath: KJU got burned once and is not eager to try again.

online.ucpress.edu/as/article-a...

Yes! We have a lot to do together! Let's do it! 박규리 만세!

Go Kyuri!! So proud of you!

Alex Lin is joining UBC as an assistant professor this fall!

Super proud of him. Here is an article about him and his work: sppga.ubc.ca?p=53097&post...

Great to see @curiouskyuri.bsky.social talking about her important research about East Asian security.

Delighted to write with @curiouskyuri.bsky.social about Sino-Korean relations! This is based on a longer research project we are doing -- keep an eye out for more in the future from us! The bottom line: Korea wants good relations with the US, but shows few signs that it will balance China.

Dr. Idomoto is a postdoc at UCSD, and his paper, “China’s Peaceful Rise, After All? The Threat of Rising Powers Reconsidered,” was awarded Best Graduate Student Paper at the Foreign Policy Section of the 2024 American Political Science Association.

IPUS - The Bargaining Theory of War and North Korea: Why the Peninsula is More Stable than the Conventional Wisdom Suggests Is war becoming more likely on the Korean Peninsula? How might we assess this likelihood? In this article, we apply the bargaining theory of war to the Korean Peninsula, which elicits three key insigh...

Here is our piece: ipus.snu.ac.kr/eng/archives...

IPUS - Current Issue

Delighted to write about North Korea with my awesome student, Dr. Yuji Idomoto! He brings formal theory to bear on the North Korea issue and wonderful to see it in print. Thanks also to Daryl Press and Jenny Lind for their great comments on earlier drafts!
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How Lee Jae-myung wants to reshape foreign policy Recasting himself as a foreign policy pragmatist grounded in national interest, South Korea’s presidential front-runner Lee Jae-myung is signaling a reset of the strategic compass for the country’s fo...

A solid preview of Lee Jae-myung's outlook on foreign policy. Pretty standard fare as far as progressive foreign policy goes.

Project Syndicate's Forward Thinkers List - Project Syndicate As the world grapples with escalating economic and political upheavals, fact-based commentary and analysis are more vital than ever. As old orthodoxies are called into question, there is a growing dem...

I know this guy!!!
Chin-Hao Huang named Forward Thinker! "30 rising global voices shaping the future of policy, economics, and international affairs, this reflects Dr. Huang's leadership and impact in the world of international relations."

forwardthinkers1.project-syndicate.org#chin-hao-huang

Beautiful spring day.

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Given the Korean election, let's talk unification! I'm so reasonable! Such insights! (It was somebody else who put the Korean subtitles, not me, but that's a great idea for the future!).

www.youtube.com/shorts/jYz7f...

Getting closer...

Hanging with my buddy!! NextGen4life!!!

Beyond Power Transitions | Columbia University Press Questions about the likelihood of conflict between the United States and China have dominated international policy discussion for years. But the leading theo... | CUP

Civilizations die by suicide, not murder."
-- Toynbee? Mark Twain? Yogi Berra?

Xinru Ma and I point out that internal challenges, not external threats, are far more likely to shape US-China relations in our wonderful, awesome, provocative book: cup.columbia.edu/book/beyond-...

American Juche.

Very proud of Korea. So, so proud.

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This is a great video. Apropos of nothing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwg2...

Beyond Power Transitions | Columbia University Press Questions about the likelihood of conflict between the United States and China have dominated international policy discussion for years. But the leading theo... | CUP

In "Beyond Power Transitions," APARC Research Scholar Xinru Ma & USC's @daveckang.bsky.social draw from East Asian history to offer fresh insights into today's great power competition and the future of U.S.-China relations. Available from @columbiaup.bsky.social ⤵️

Right next to Ken Waltz, too!

I'm not at #ISA2025, but Xinru Ma and my book is! It makes a great spring break/beach/Mother's Day gift! Get it while it's hot!

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[이코노워치] 중국에 추월당했다는 한국 반도체 기술 | 연합뉴스 (서울=연합뉴스) 김지훈 선임기자 = "2015년 엔비디아 시가총액은 삼성전자의 10분의 1 이하였고 TSMC는 3분의 2 수준이었다. 올해 삼...

China overtakes Korea in semiconductors...

www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2025...

Delighted to announce that my book with Chin-Hao Huang, "State Formation Through Emulation: the East Asian model" (Cambridge University Press, 2022), will get a Chinese-language version to be published soon!

Asia's Great Power Wars Lessons from Imperial History for Today

Thanks for having me on the podcast -- a great chance to talk about East Asian history, what's universal and inevitable, and what may not be as universal as we think. I hope I was provocative, but not "crazy man" provocative! @jordanschneider.bsky.social

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This is a very good point -- we don't focus on China and then are surprised by what happens...