AKPS NEWSLETTER
April 2006
Published by
(재미 한국정치연구학회 Jaemi
Hanguk Jeongchi Yongu Hakhoe)
President:
Uk Heo, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Editor: Terence Roehrig, Cardinal
Stritch University. The AKPS Newsletter is sent by e-mail twice a year to its members
and other interested parties. To view this publication online, go to the association’s website at <http://www.akps.org>.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear AKPS Members,
Almost a full academic year has passed since I became the president of
AKPS. In my inaugural address, I set forth several goals and made a
promise that my presidency would do its best to achieve these goals. I am
pleased to report that we have made significant progress.
Our first goal was increasing AKPS membership. To this end, our Executive Secretary Terry Roehrig has invited many potential members to join us. His tireless efforts have led to a significant increase in the number of dues-paying members. I would like to thank Professor Roehrig and others who have helped us identify potential members. We will continue this endeavor and ask for your help in identifying other possible members. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome our new members and hope your affiliation with AKPS will be valuable.
Another promise I made was to expand our activities. To this end, as I reported earlier, AKPS has become a cooperating organization of the International Studies Association (ISA). As a result, ISA has given us two panels for the Spring 2007 meeting in Chicago, and Professor Jih-Un Kim of Webster University has graciously agreed to serve as the program chair. Starting next year, we will have two annual conventions (APSA and ISA) for us to share our research.
In addition, we have also worked to generate the resources needed to support our expanded activities. Not only have we raised some funds from the private sector, but we have also received a grant ($10,000) from the East Asia Foundation (www.keaf.org). Some of the grant money will be used to publish a book with selected papers presented at the AKPS panels of the upcoming APSA convention along with solicited ones, while the remainder of the money will be donated to AKPS.
Finally, I am pleased to report that our APSA program chair Professor Jungmin Seo has successfully secured three panels at the upcoming APSA convention. With three panels, we will be able to exchange our views on various issues in Korean politics. Given that it took a lot of time and effort to acquire the three panels, we owe him many thanks! The participants for these panels are listed later in the newsletter.
Hope all is well with you, and I look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia.
Sincerely yours,
Uk Heo
President of AKPS
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2006 APSA/AKPS PROGRAM
Program
Chair, Jungmin Seo, University of Hawaii at Manoa (seoj@hawaii.edu)
Panel I: New Security Environment in the Korean Peninsula
Chair & Discussant: Hang Yul Rhee, Shepherd University (yrhee@shepherd.edu)
Papers
Seung-Ho Joo, University of Minnesota, Morris (joos@morris.umn.edu)
Paradigms and
Fallacies: Rethinking Northeast Asian Security and Its Implications for Korea
Hun Joo Park, KDI School of Public Policy and Management (hjpark@kdischool.ac.kr
Song, Daesung, The Sejong Institute (unkang@sejong.org)
Panel II: South Korea after
Democratic Consolidation and Globalization: The Rise of New Identities and
Politics
Chair & Discussant: Katherine H. S. Moon, Wellesley
College (kmoon@wellesley.edu)
Papers
Byoung-Ha Lee, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick (byoungha@eden.rutgers.edu)
All Koreans are Equal, but Some Koreans are more equal
than others: The Political Representations of Homosexuals in South Korea
Youngshik Bong, Williams College (ybong@williams.edu)
Esook Yoon, Kent State University (eyoon@kent.edu)
Insung Lee, Yonsei University (inslee@yonsei.ac.kr) and Tae Jeong Lee, Yonsei University (taejlee@yonsei.ac.kr)
Flower, Rice and Goats: The Politics of Labor and Gender in “post-IMF” South Korea
Jungmin Seo, University of Hawaii at Manoa (seoj@hawaii.edu)
Panel
III: Shifting Balances of Domestic Politics: North and South
Chair & Discussant: Chae-Jin Lee, Claremont McKenna College (cjlee@mckenna.edu)
Co-discussant: J.O. Ra, Hollins University (jora@vt.edu)
Papers
Kyung-Ae Park, University of British Columbia (kpark@interchange.ubc.ca)
Uk Heo, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (heouk@uwm.edu), and Jung-yeop Woo, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (jwoo@uwm.edu)
Political Rupture of Korean Presidential Democracy:
Institutional Analysis of Presidential Impeachment in Korean Politics
Woojin Kang, Florida State University (wwk5622@fsu.edu)
Hae-won Jun, Yonsei University (hae-won.jun@yonsei.ac.kr)
Jae Hyeok Shin, University of California, Los Angeles (jaehshin@gmail.com)
It is with great pleasure that we announce the recipients of the 2006 Student Travel Grant Awards for the APSA meeting in Philadelphia. Each winner will receive $150 to help defray travel and lodging costs. Congratulations to the two recipients!
Woojin Kang, Florida State University
Byoung-Ha Lee, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
48th International Studies Association Annual Convention
will be held in Chicago, IL, February 28-March 3, 2007. The Association
of Korean Political Studies (AKPS) is seeking paper proposals and volunteers to
serve as panel chairs and paper discussants. Co-authored papers are also
valued.
Papers on any aspect of Korea’s foreign relations and domestic politics are
welcome. Paper proposals should include paper title, abstract (less than
500 words), name of author, address, phone & fax number, email address, and
institutional affiliation.
The deadline for submitting proposals is May 20, 2006.
Email submission is encouraged.
Email to:
Professor Jih-Un Kim
2007 ISA Program Chair of AKPS
Assistant Professor
Department of History, Politics & International Relations
Webster University
470 East Lockwood Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63119-3194
Phone: 314-961-2660 (ext. 7868)
Fax: 314-968-7403
Email: kimjih@webster.edu
CALL FOR manuscripts
Pacific
Focus invites submissions of original manuscripts pertaining to the
political, security, and economic matters of the Asia Pacific region and its
countries. Pacific Focus is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a
year (April and October) by the Center for International Studies, Inha
University, Korea. Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 35 pages (or
approximately 8,500 words) in length including footnotes. For manuscript
submission or inquiries, contact Professor Seung-Ho Joo, Associate Editor for
North America, by email (joos@morris.umn.edu) or by phone (320-589-6203).
The International Journal of Korean Studies is published twice a year by the
International Council on Korean Studies (ICKS), a non-profit organization in
Washington, D.C. Contributors may submit one copy of papers of 20 to 35 pages
in double-spaced format, with endnotes, accompanied by a computer disk in an
electronic format compatible with WordPerfect 5.0 or later versions. Original and unpublished papers must provide
full documentation conforming to the standards in the current edition of the
Chicago Manual of Style. Papers are to be submitted to Professor Jack L.
Hammersmith, International Journal of Korean Studies, Department of History,
West Virginia University, PO Box 6303, Morgantown, WV 26506-6303. E-mail address: jhammer@.wvu.edu;
Tel. (304) 293-2421; Fax: (304) 293-3616. For inquiries, please contact
Professor Young Whan Kihl, Editor-in-chief at ykihl@iastate.edu.
Uk Heo at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was promoted to full professor effective in September 2006.
Yoonkyung Lee will be joining SUNY-Binghamton in fall 2006 as an assistant professor in sociology, Asian Asian-American Studies, and political science.
Terence Roehrig
was appointed Associate Professor, Department of National Security Studies at
the U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island beginning in July 2006.
NEWS
Wonmo Dong (University of Washington) recently returned from a lecture tour to Juneau, Alaska where he spoke on “The Two Koreas, Nuclear Energy and Security Issues” at the 2006 meeting of the Pacific Rim Forum which was held at the University of Alaska at Juneau campus on March 30-April 1, 2006. A total of 45 speakers made presentations at the event but Professor Dong was the only Asianist and political scientist.
Four Korean-born political scientists, all members of the AKPS--Young Whan Kihl (Iowa State University), Hong Nack Kim (West Virginia University), Chae-jin Lee (Claremont McKenna College), and Wonmo Dong (University of Washington) presented a roundtable on
“North Korea: Politics of Regime Survival” at the 2006 meeting of the Association for Asian Studies held in San Francisco, March 6-9, 2006.
Wonmo Dong (University of Washington) will be
in South Korea during May 1-6, 2006 to make a first-hand observation of the
current North Korea policy of South Korea. During the summer, he will be on the
Semester at Sea voyage, serving as a faculty member in political science from
June 17 to August 21, 2006. On this
voyage to 9 Asian countries Professor Dong will teach the Governments and
Politics of East Asia.
Tae-Hwan Kwak (Professor Emeritus, Eastern Kentucky University) presented a paper titled “Resolving the North Korean Nuclear Issue Through the Six-Party Process,” at the 47th Annual Meeting of International Studies Association held March 22-25, 2006, in San Diego, CA.
Uk Heo and Sung-Deuk Hahm. 2006. “Politics, Economics, and
Defense Spending in South Korea.” Armed Forces and Society 32(4):
1-19.
Uk Heo and Hans Stockton. 2005. “Elections and Parties in
South Korea Before and After Transition to Democracy.” Party Politics 11(6):
675-689.
Samuel S. Kim. The Two Koreas and the Great Powers,
is scheduled for publication in both soft and hard cover editions by Cambridge
University Press in May 2006.
Tae-Hwan Kwak and Seung-Ho Joo, eds. The United States and the Korean Peninsula in the 21st Century (Ashgate, 2006) (forthcoming). The book contains chapters from several AKPS members including: Chapter 1. Introduction, by Tae-Hwan Kwak and Seung-Ho Joo; Chapter 2. The Six-Party Nuclear Talks and the Korean Peninsula Peace Regime Initiative: A Framework for Implementation, by Tae-Hwan Kwak; Chapter 3. U.S.-ROK Relations: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, by Seung-Ho Joo; Chapter 4. Korea, the U.S., China and Japan: The Rise of Asian Regionalism, by Claude Barfield and Jason Bolton; Chapter 5. The Realignment of USFK and ROK-U.S. Alliance in Transition, by Seong-Ryoul Cho; Chapter 6. Assessing the Present and Charting the Future of U.S.-DPRK Relations: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension of the Nuclear Confrontation, by Bruce Bechtol, Jr.; Chapter 7. U.S.-DPRK Relations: The Nuclear Issue, by Edward A. Olsen; Chapter 8. Retraining the Hegemon: North Korea, the United States and Asymmetrical Deterrence, by Terence Roehrig; Chapter 9. Stability with Uncertainties: U.S.-China Relations and the Korean Peninsula, by Fei-ling Wang
Chae-Jin Lee. A Troubled Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
Terence Roehrig. From Deterrence to Engagement: The U.S.
Defense Commitment to South Korea (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006).
MEMBERSHIP DUES
AKPS operates largely on your membership dues. Your
timely remission of membership dues is essential for the Association’s
operation. If you have not paid for 2005-06, please send a check ($40
for professors, $20 for graduate students) payable to AKPS and mail to:
Professor Terry Roehrig
Department of
Political Science
Cardinal Stritch
University
6801 N. Yates Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53217
The Association welcomes donations.
As 501 (3) non-profit organization, all dues and donations to AKPS are tax deductible. (*Receipt for your membership fee and donation are
available upon request.)
The AKPS membership application
form is available online at www.akps.org. Check the membership directory to see if your
information is current. If not, please
send an updated form along with your check.
Be sure to keep AKPS apprised of any changes in your contact
information, especially your email address.
President: Uk Heo (2005-07), University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Vice President/Treasurer: Esook Yoon (2005-07), Kent State University
Executive
Secretary: Terence Roehrig
(2005-07), Cardinal Stritch University
APSA Program Chair: Jungmin Seo (2006-2007), University of Hawaii
ISA
Program Chair: Jih-Un Kim (2006-2007), Webster University
Governing
Board:
Young Whan Kihl (2003-06), Iowa State
University
Michael Launius (2003-06), Central Washington
University
Toh-Kyeong Ahn (2004-07),
Florida State University
Seung-Ho
Joo (2004-07),
University of Minnesota-Morris
Esook Yoon (2004-07), Kent State University
Won K. Paik (2005-08), Central Michigan
University
Uk Heo (2005-08), University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee