AKPS NEWSLETTER
November 2007
Published by
The Association of Korean Political Studies
(재미 한국정치연구학회 Jaemi Hanguk Jeongchi Yongu Hakhoe)
President: Terence Roehrig, U.S. Naval War College, Editor: Haesook Chae, Baldwin-Wallace College. 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
It is an honor and privilege to begin serving my two-year term as President of the Association of Korean Political Studies (AKPS). I follow a long list of outstanding leaders of this organization, and I will do my best to continue the great work done by these individuals.
I want to begin by thanking those who have served AKPS in the past two years, especially President Uk Heo (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). His leadership did much to advance the goals and visibility of the organization. Many thanks are also in order for Professor Esook Yoon who served as Vice-President/Treasurer (Kent State University/Inha University) and to Professor Jungmin Seo (University of Hawaii-Manoa) who did excellent work as the American Political Science Association (APSA) Program Chair for AKPS. Finally, I want to thank Professors Toh-Kyeong Ahn (Florida State University), Seung-Ho Joo (University of Minnesota-Morris), and Esook Yoon for their service on the AKPS Governing Board.
It is with great pleasure that I announce the new office holders for these positions. Professor Jungmin Seo has been elected Vice President and Professor Haesook Chae (Baldwin-Wallace College) has been elected to be Secretary/Treasurer. Also, Professor Jae-Jung Suh (SAIS–Johns Hopkins University) has agreed to serve as the Program Chair for AKPS panels at APSA. Finally, we have three new members on the AKPS Governing Board: Professors Jae-Jung Suh, Haesook Chae, and Jih-Un Kim (Webster University). We will work very hard to serve the needs of the organization.
In the years ahead, AKPS will continue its efforts to promote Korean political studies by sponsoring panels at APSA and the International Studies Association (ISA). Many thanks to Professor Jih-Un Kim for his work as ISA program chair. I am also pleased to announce that on behalf of AKPS, Professor Heo and I signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korean Political Science Association (KPSA) to build a collaborative relationship between the two organizations. Several AKPS members participated in the World Congress of Korean Studies in Busan that was sponsored by KPSA in August 2007. We look forward to continuing this relationship and expanding our collaboration. Thanks are also in order for Professor Seo who played an important role in facilitating these arrangements.
AKPS will continue to be a conduit for information and networking in Korean political studies. In addition to our efforts to promote scholarship, we are also embarking on a project to facilitate the teaching of Korean political studies. Thus, we are launching a project to gather syllabi of courses on Korean politics/foreign policy or courses on East Asia that contain coverage of Korea and will post these to our website. More information on this project is provided later in the newsletter. As we strive to serve the needs of our members, if you have any suggestions for how AKPS can better serve your needs, do not hesitate to contact me. AKPS is always open to considering new ideas and we welcome any suggestions.
To do our work and to undertake new initiatives, it is crucial that we have the necessary funds. If you have not already done so, I humbly ask that you renew your membership. The dues are reasonable [$20 for graduate students, $40 for faculty members, and $500 for a life-time membership] and remain our sole source of income. Information for renewing your membership follows later in the newsletter.
We also have a new webmaster, Professor Sun-Kwang Bae (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center). Be sure to check the AKPS website periodically for job opportunities and calls for papers, and provide us with any updates on contact information. Also, if you have information that would be of interest for AKPS members, forward any announcements to Professor Chae who will circulate these items and post the information to our website.
On behalf of the Officers, Program Chairs, and Governing Board Members, we look forward to working with you in the next two years and wish you all the best.
Terry Roehrig
President, AKPS
U.S. Naval War College
FY 2007 FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Statement Period: September 20, 2006-August 31, 2007
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Balance as of September 20, 2006 $5771.59
Income Membership dues $460.00 Governing Board dues $200.00 Donation $500.00 (East Asia Foundation Grant) $1160.00
Expenses A&J Computer Services $192.50 ISA Dinner $552.25 Bank checks $ 17.00 Graduate student travel grant $500.00 Bank fees $ 32.00 $1293.75
Balance as of August 31, 2007 $5637.84
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2008 APSA – Call for papers
Submission Deadline: December 17, 2007
The Association of Korean Political Studies (AKPS) is seeking paper proposals and volunteers to serve as panel chairs and paper discussants for the 2008 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting that will be held in Boston, MA, August 28-September 31, 2008. Co-authored papers are also valued.
Papers on any aspect of Korea’s domestic politics and foreign relations are welcome. We particularly welcome proposals on the following themes: 1) The Politics of History in Korean Politics: Domestic and International Dynamics; 2) The Changing Security Environment surrounding the Korean Peninsula and the US-South Korea Alliance; and 3) North Korean Reforms and Scenarios of Reunification.
The AKPS has launched an initiative to have the accepted, quality papers published. Some of the accepted papers will be, pending the availability of funding and successful editorial review, offered a chance to appear in a journal or an edited volume.
Paper proposals should include paper title, abstract (less than 500 words), name(s) of (co- author(s), address, phone & fax number, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation. Those who wish to serve as a panel chair or discussant, please send a note on your fields of interests.
Send proposals and queries to the AKPS 2008 APSA Program Chair:
J.J. Suh
SAIS-Johns Hopkins University
1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-663-5609
<jsuh8@jhu.edu>
Email submission is encouraged.
Please note that all presenters must be dues-paying members of the AKPS (can join upon acceptance).
2008 ISA PANELS
Panel I: Diagnosis of South Korean New Democracy (March 29, Saturday, 1:45-3:30)
Chair: J.O. Ra, Hollins University Papers Political Generation and Electoral Choice in Korean Politics Sang-Jung Han, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Woojin Kang, Florida State University Social Basis of Political Support for the Democratic Labor Party in 2004 & 2007: An Ecological Analysis at the Constituency Level Sun-Kwang Bae, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center The “Dynamics of Contention” in Post-Transitional Korea: The Pivotal Role of Anti-Americanism Sunhyuk Kim, Korea University Eun Sun Lee, Korea University The Choice of Electoral Systems in New Democracies: A Case Study of Korea in 1988 Jae-Hyeok Shin, University of California, Los Angeles Toward People-Centered Development: A Reflection on the Consequences of the Financial Crisis and Reforms on Korean Dirigisme and Democracy Hun Joo Park, KDI School of Public Policy and Management Discussant: Bruce E. Bechtol, Marine Corps Command and Staff College Panel II: Korea and Its Current International Relations (March 29, Saturday, 3:45-5:30)
Chair: Mel Gurtov, Portland State University Papers China and Korea: A Renewed Strategic Partnership?
Jianwei Wang, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point China in Contemporary Korean Nationalism: Reflecting on China's Northeast Project
Dong-Jin Jang, Yonsei University Kyung-Ho Song, Yonsei University Min Hyuk Hwang, Yonsei University North Korea’s Balancing Behavior in the Nuclear Disputes
Kyung-Ae Park, University of British Columbia ROK’s Sunshine Policy: A Critical Assessment Seung-Ho Joo, University of Minnesota, Morris Euikon Kim, Inha University What Moves Korean Attitudes toward the Korea-USA alliance? Haesook Chae, Baldwin-Wallace College Steven Kim, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Discussant: J.J. Suh, Johns Hopkins University SYLLABI PROJECT
In addition to our mission of promoting scholarship on Korean political studies, we also believe that AKPS can help to promote teaching about Korea and/or East Asia. Increasingly, colleges and universities are including courses on Korean and/or East Asian Politics in their curriculum and AKPS can help to facilitate the sharing of information in this effort. East Asia is included here because the reality is that there are relatively few courses devoted solely to Korea but there may be a substantial part of an East Asian politics course devoted to Korean issues.
Thus, AKPS is embarking on a project to collect syllabi from members for courses, both undergraduate and graduate, on Korean politics and foreign relations along with relevant East Asian courses that contain a significant (broadly defined) portion of Korea material. After organizing and formatting the submissions, we will post them to the AKPS website (www.akps.org) for faculty to consult if they are looking for syllabi, textbooks, and course ideas.
If you have syllabi that might be of interest, please send them electronically to Terry Roehrig, (terence.roehrig@nwc.navy.mil or tjroehrig@gmail.com) in MS Word format. This will be an ongoing project so as you develop new courses in the future that might be of interest, be sure to forward an electronic copy to Professor Roehrig. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact him at one of these email addresses or at 401-841-7509. Many thanks for your help in promoting the teaching of Korea.
Call for manuscripts
North Korean Review (NKR), a new referred journal, is published twice annually by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers (www.mcfarlandpub.com), in North Carolina. This international and interdisciplinary journal welcomes policy-oriented articles (less than 7,000 words), short papers, commentaries, and cases (less than 3,500 words) on all aspects of North Korea, including North Korean politics, international relations, economics, business, culture, history, religion, and others. If you would like to submit an article for possible publication in NKR, please submit your paper as an email attachment in Microsoft Word to the Editor. Authors will receive an email confirmation when their articles are received. Editorial decisions will be sent to authors no more than 30 days later. Send all manuscripts and editorial inquiries about NKR: ink@udmercy.edu. If you would like to know more about NKR, please visit its website:www.northkoreanreview.com.
Pacific Focus (http://www.inhacis.com/) invites submissions of original manuscripts dealing with international and domestic affairs of Northeast Asia for the spring 2008 issue. The submission deadline for the spring issue is December 1. Pacific Focus, an international journal listed on the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), will be published three times a year by Blackwell Publishing beginning spring 2008, and will be accepting manuscripts year-round. There will be a $500 honorarium for accepted manuscript. Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 35 pages (or approximately 8,500 words) in length including footnotes. Submit your manuscript along with an abstract, biographical data, bibliography, and key words by e-mail to Professor Seung-Ho Joo, the journal's Associate Editor for North America (Electronic submission preferred). His contact information is: Professor Seung-Ho Joo, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, Morris, 109 Camden Hall, Morris, MN 56267; (phone) 320-589-6203; (E-mail) joos@morris.umn.edu.
The Journal of East Asian Studies is interested in publishing fresh, social science research on East Asia including the Koreas. Our core readership is in political science and international relations, but we are open to submissions from applied economics and political economy to political sociology and business studies. You can see what we are doing at http://www.rienner.com/viewbook.cfm?BOOKID=1354, where you can download a sample issue and view abstracts. We have published strong work on Korea in recent issues. Editorial queries welcome to Ha-jeong Kim at hjkim@eai.or.kr; the work of junior scholars is always welcome as are library subscriptions.
announcements
Kent State University is planning to host Dr. Dae Sil Kim-Gibson as she screens Silence Broken, her award winning documentary on the Korean “comfort women.” The screening date is planned for April 18, 2008 and will be held at the KSU Stark campus. Admission will be free and Dr. Kim-Gibson will give a talk before the screening and take questions from the audience afterwards. If you are interested in attending or would like more information, please email Dennis Hart, Associate Professor, Political Science, Kent State University at dhart@kent.edu
Recent Appointments & / OR CHANGES
Soyoung Kim, formerly Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University, was appointed Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea
MEMBER Publications
Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., Red Rogue: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea, (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2007).
____________. (ed), The Quest for a Unified Korea: Strategies for the Cultural and Interagency Process, (Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Foundation, 2007).
Haesook Chae and Steven Kim, “Not the South Korea we thought we knew” in The Christian Science Monitor 13 August, 2007
Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland, "North Korea's External Economic Relations," Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper 07-7 at http://www.iie.com/publications/interstitial.cfm?ResearchID=794
Choong Nam Kim. The Korean Presidents: Leadership for Nation Building (Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2007)
Taehyun Nam. “Rough Days in Democracies: Comparing Protests in Democracies.”
European Journal of Political Research 46(1) (2007): 97-120.
Terence Roehrig, Jungmin Seo, and Uk Heo, (eds). Korean Security in a Changing East, Praeger Security International, 2007.
Chapter 1: Introduction by Terence Roehrig, Jungmin Seo, and Uk Heo
Chapter 2: The Role of the United States in the North Korean Nuclear Crisis by Patrick M.
Morgan
Chapter 3: China’s Grand Strategy, the Korean Nuclear Crisis, and the Six-Party Talks, by Shale
Horowitz and Min Ye
Chapter 4: Causes and Consequences of North-South Cooperation by David C. Kang
Chapter 5: Regime Change in North Korea? By Kyung-Ae Park
Chapter 6: Korean Security and Big Power Rivalry by Terence Roehrig
Chapter 7: Internal Dynamics of Chinese Nationalism and Northeast Asian Regional Order by
Jungmin Seo
Chapter 8: Russian Foreign Policy and South Korean Security by Esook Yoon
Chapter 9: A Modest Proposal: Forming a Regularized Security Structure for Northeast Asia—
Drawing on the OSCE Experience by Thomas A. Wuchte
Chapter 10: Allies under Strain: U.S.-Korean Relations under G.W. Bush by Seung-Ho Joo
Chapter 11: Changing National Identity and Security Perception in South Korea by Uk Heo and
Jung-Yeop Woo
Jae-Jung Suh. Power,
Interest and Identity in Military Alliances (New York and London:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
__________. “War-like History
or Diplomatic History? Contentions over the Past and
Regional Orders in Northeast Asia,” Australian Journal of International
Affairs 61 no. 3 (2007):382 - 402.
__________. “Producing Security
Dilemma out of Uncertainty: The North Korean Nuclear
Crisis,” Working Paper Series on International Studies (Paper No. 8-06),
J.J. Suh. The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University,
October 2006.
__________. “North Korea’s Military Capability and North-South Korea Power
Balance,”
in The Military of North Korea: A New Look, edited by Taik-Young Hamm
(Seoul: Hanul, 2006), pp. 339-410. Co-authored with Taik-Young Hamm [in
Korean].
__________. “Debates on U.S. Forces Repositioning: Changes in U.S. Security
Strategy
and U.S.-Korea Alliance,” in Modern Korea’s Security Guarantee and Internal
Security Law, edited by Sung Suh, (Tokyo: 法律文化社,
2006), pp. 124-150 [in Japanese].
awards & recognition
Haesook Chae and Steven Kim received the Outstanding Faculty Paper Award at the 2007 ISA-West Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, USA, for their co-authored paper entitled “Conservatives and Progressives in South Korea.”
Wayne Patterson, St. Norbert College, was awarded a Korea Foundation Visiting Professorship to the University of the Philippines for the spring semester, 2008, where he will teach two graduate courses on modern Korean history.
Esook Yoon received a Korea Foundation Research Grant for 2008.
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 2007-08, please send a check ($500 for lifetime membership, $40 for professors, $20 for graduate students) payable to AKPS and mail to:
Professor Haesook Chae
Department of Political Science
Baldwin Wallace College
275 Eastland Road
Berea, Ohio 44017
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.
AKPS Officers and the Governing Board (terms in parenthesis)
President: Terry Roehrig (2007-09), U.S. Naval War College
Vice President: Jungmin Seo (2007-09), University of Hawaii at Manoa
Secretary/Treasurer: Haesook Chae (2007-09), Baldwin-Wallace College
APSA Program: Chair: Jae-Jung Suh (2007-09), SAIS-Johns Hopkins University
ISA Program Chair: Jih-Un Kim (2006-2008), Webster University
Governing Board:
Won K. Paik (2005-08), Central Michigan University
Uk Heo (2005-08), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Terence Roehrig (2006-09), U.S. Naval War College
Jungmin Seo (2006-09), University of Hawaii-Manoa
Haesook Chae (2007-10), Baldwin-Wallace College
Jih-Un Kim (2007-10), Webster University
Jae-Jung Suh (2007-10), SAIS-Johns Hopkins University
Guidelines on Graduate Student Travel Grant
The Association of Korean Political Studies is pleased to announce graduate student travel grant for participation in the 2008 APSA. Graduate students who will be presenting a paper in one of AKPS sessions of 2008 APSA are eligible. This grant is designed to encourage the involvement of graduate students in AKPS and support their research in Korean political studies.
The funding decisions will be based on financial need as expressed in the grant application (see description below) and on the merits of the student’s paper abstract. The funding will pay travel and accommodation costs up to $250, and a maximum of two recipients will be chosen by an AKPS selection committee.
To apply submit by e-mail (1) the application form and (2) a paper abstract to Professor Jae-Jung Suh by e-mail at jsuh8@jhu.edu, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University. The deadline for submission is December 17, 2007.
I. Application Form
Name: _______________________________________________________
Address: _____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
City: ___________________________________ State: _______________
Zip Code: ____________ E-mail: ________________________________
School: ______________________________________________________
Status: PH.D. student ( ) ABD ( ) MA student: ( )
Financial Need:
(Please explain in 300 words or less how this grant will help you participate in 2007 APSA)
II. ABSTRACT
Paper title:
Abstract author(s):
Paper abstract: (approximately 1,000 words)