AKPS NEWSLETTER
November 2004
Published by
The Association of
Korean Political Studies
(재미 한국정치연구학회 Jaemi Hanguk Jeongchi Yongu Hakhoe)
President: Seung-Ho Joo, University of Minnesota,
Morris; Editor: Sunhyuk Kim, Korea University
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
Greetings to all! I am writing to announce
a couple of new developments with our association and to report on AKPS
activities during 2004 APSA.
AKPS has established a graduate student
travel grant program. This modest grant is designed to encourage graduate
students’ involvement in our association’s activities and to acknowledge
research excellence in the field of Korean political
studies. At the 2004 APSA Chicago meeting, this idea was brought up and briefly
discussed among some governing board members and officers, and after the Chicago meeting the AKPS
governing board adopted guidelines on this issue (See Guidelines on Graduate
Student Travel Grant towards the end of this Newsletter).
Following the guidelines, AKPS will award one or two travel grants to graduate
students who will be presenting papers on APSA/AKPS panels. The award, $150
each, will supplement students’ travel expenses to APSA annual meeting. Please
spread the word and encourage qualified graduate students to apply.
AKPS members now have a choice for life-time
membership. Until now, only yearly renewable membership was available. In the
past, some “senior” members informed me that AKPS used to have life-time
membership, but I could not find any record about it. With a view to
institutionalizing life-time membership, I raised this issue before our
governing board and received its endorsement. This policy on life-time
membership will formally recognize substantial financial contributions of the
past and in the future. The minimum amount for life-time membership is set at
$400, and the record of all permanent members will be kept safely and
permanently. My record shows that the following members are qualified as
permanent members for their financial contributions of the past: Professors
Young Whan Kihl (Iowa State University), Tae-Hwan
Kwak (Eastern Kentucky
University),
Jong Oh Rah (Hollins University),
and Chae-Jin Lee (Claremont-McKenna College). If you happen to fall into
this category or if you know of anyone, please let me (joos@mrs.umn.edu) or
Professor Esook Yoon (eyoon@kent.edu; AKPS Treasurer) know.
Now a brief report on 2004 APSA. AKPS
featured two panels on the themes of “Korea and Regional Politics” and “Institutionalization
of Korean Political Economic Development” at 2004 APSA, September
2-5, Chicago. Both panels proceeded in a sincere and cordial atmosphere, and the
turnout (25 and 35) in each panel was better than usual. On Thursday, September 2,
AKPS members and its program participants dined together at a local Korean
restaurant, Seoul Garden, located in the suburbs of Chicago. The dinner was hosted by Hon.
Joonpyo Hong of the Grand National Party,
Korea, who gave
a talk about Korean political issues at the dinner. On behalf of AKPS, I thank
Mr. Hong for the generous dinner. At the annual General Meeting of AKPS, which
was held during the dinner, Professors Esook Yoon of Kent
State University and
Toh-Kyeong Ahn of Florida
State University
were elected as new members of the AKPS governing board for a three-year term.
Our website (http://www.akps.org) had a
facelift. Professor HeeMin Kim of Florida
State University
volunteered the chore and did an excellent job. Mr. Hyung Jun Park, ABD at Florida State University,
who made the website improvements along with Professor Kim, has
agreed to serve as our association’s webmaster. My sincere thanks go to them. Check it
out! And if you have any suggestions for improvement, please let us know.
And finally, recognition of our officers’
invaluable services is in order. Our Executive-Secretary Professor
Sunhyuk Kim of Korea
University
has done a marvelous job in the past year taking care of all sorts of chores
and organizing AKPS activities at 2004 APSA. Professor Esook Yoon
looked after financial matter as our Treasurer and did a wonderful job as our
program chair this year (Yes, she was wearing two hats!). She agreed to serve
again as our program chair for 2005 APSA. I am most grateful to Professors
Kim and Yoon for their selfless support and dedication, and I look forward to
working closely with them in the coming year.
We always welcome any suggestions and
comments on AKPS matters. Please feel free to contact us, if you have any.
Seung-Ho Joo
University of Minnesota, Morris
2005 APSA: Proposal
submissions due December 10, 2004
The 101st American
Political Science Association Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, DC,
September 1-4, 2005. 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
domestic politics and foreign relations are welcome. Paper proposals should
include paper title, abstract, name(s) of (co-) author(s), address, phone &
fax number, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation. Please submit
proposals by December 10, 2004. E-mail
submission is encouraged.
E-mail to:
Esook Yoon
2005 APSA Program Chair of AKPS
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44240
Phone: 330-672-8928; Fax:
330-672-3362
E-mail: eyoon@kent.edu
CALL FOR manuscripts
Pacific Focus invites submissions of original manuscripts
pertaining to the political and security matters of the Asia Pacific Region and
its countries. Pacific Focus is
a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year 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. Submit your manuscript by e-mail to Editor-in-chief at intstudy@munhak.inha.ac.kr. For
inquiries, please contact Professor Euikon Kim, Editor-in-chief at kimek@inha.a.kr or Professor Seung-Ho Joo,
Associate Editor for North America at joos@mrs.umn.edu.
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 in conformance with 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.
Recent Appointments
Toh-Kyeong Ahn (Ph.D. in
Political Science, Indiana University) is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Political Science, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, FL. His research interests include game
theory, experimental studies of collective action, and social capital
Jih-Un Kim (Ph.D. in Political
Science, University of South Carolina) is Assistant Professor in the Department
of History, Politics & International Relations, Webster
University (St. Louis, MO).
His articles include “Looking into a Microcosm of China’s Water Problems:
Dilemmas of Shanxi, a High and Dry Province” and “Drifting on the Drying Water
Pool: China’s
Water Scarcity and Its Political Foreboding.” Beyond China’s
water shortage issue, his research interest includes migration into South Korea from Southeast Asian countries and North Korea.
Wonik Kim (Ph.D., New York University)
is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Louisiana State
University. He has
research interests in comparative politics and political economy with specific
concentrations in political regime dynamics, the welfare state, globalization,
and the history of capitalism. He teaches Introduction to Comparative Politics,
Comparative Politics of East Asia, Political Economy, and Origins and Developments
of the Welfare State.
NEWS
Mikyoung Kim’s new contact information:
Mikyoung Kim, Fulbright Visiting Professor, Department of International Studies,
Portland State University, P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-0751, USA; Tel: 503-635-4418;
E-mail: mkkim_33@hotmail.com.
Tae-Hwan Kwak (Professor Emeritus,
Eastern Kentucky
University) is a visiting professor at
Inha University from September 2004 to August
2005. He is a regular columnist for monthly magazine Jibang jachi (Local Self-Government).
Bang-Soon
Yoon (Professor, Department of Political Science and Director, Women Studies
Program, Central Washington University)
completed her three-year service on the APSA Standing Committee on the Status
of Women in the Profession (2000-03) and is currently serving on the Standing
Committee on the Status of Asian Pacific Americans in the Profession and the
Nomination Committee of the Women’s Caucus.
MEMBER Publications
Samuel S. Kim, ed. 2004. Inter-Korean Relations: Problems and Prospects. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
____________, ed. 2004.
The International Relations of Northeast Asia. Lanham,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
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2004. “China’s
Path to Great Power Status in the Globalization Era,” in Guoli Liu, ed., Chinese Foreign Policy in Transition. New York: Aldine de
Gruyter.
____________.
2004. “Regionalization and Regionalism in East Asia,”
Journal of East Asian Studies, 4(1)
(January-March).
____________.
2004. “China in World
Politics” in Barry Buzan and Rosemary Foot, eds., Does China
Matter?: A Reassessment. London:
Routledge.
Sunhyuk
Kim & Yong Wook Lee. 2004. “New Asian Regionalism and the United States: Constructing
Regional Identity and Interest in the Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion,” Pacific Focus, XIX(2) (Fall).
Sunhyuk
Kim & Nora Hamilton. 2004. “Democratization, Economic Liberalization, and
Labor Politics: Mexico and Korea,” Comparative Sociology, 3(1).
Tae-Hwan Kwak. 2004. “The Six-Party
Nuclear Talks: An Evaluation and Policy Recommendations,” Pacific Focus, XIX(2) (Fall).
Terence
Roehrig. 2004. “Human Rights, the Military, and the Transition to Democracy in Argentina and South Korea,” in Shale Horowitz and
Albrecht Schnabel, eds., Human Rights and
Societies in Transition: Causes, Consequences, and Responses. Tokyo: United Nations
University Press.
J.J. Suh, Peter Katzenstein, & Allen Carlson, eds. 2004. Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power and Efficiency. Stanford: Stanford University
Press.
J.J. Suh.
2004. “Changes in U.S. Military Strategy and the U.S.-Korea Alliance,” Ch’angjakkwa pip’yong (Creation and
Criticism) 125 (Fall) (in Korean).
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2004. “The ‘Bush Doctrine’ and Northeast Asia: U.S.
Hegemonic Order in the American
Lake,” Ritsumeikan International Affairs 2
(April 2004).
Bang-Soon
Yoon. 2004. “Remembering the ‘Life’ in Academic Life: Finding a Balance between
Work and Personal Responsibilities in the Academy,” coauthored with Martha
Ackelsberg, Gayle Binion, Georgia Duerst-Lahti, Jane Junn & Laura Van
Assendelft. PS: Political Science &
Politics, XXXVII(4) (October 2004).
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2004. “Current Issues of the ‘Military Comfort Women’: Development of
Cooperative Framework among Women’s Non-Governmental Organizations in Asia” in
Northeast Research Center, Beijing University, Social Science Association of DPRK,
The Fareast Asia Research Institute, Kyungnam University, and China Cultural
Exchange Cooperation, eds., The Idea of
Anti-Japanese State-Building And Reform and Development of Northeast Asia. Beijing, China:
Beijing University Northeast
Research Center.
New memberS
MEMBERSHIP DUES
AKPS is run with your membership dues. Your
timely remission of membership dues is essential for the Association’s
operation. If you have not paid 2003-04 membership due, please make a $20
check payable to AKPS and mail to
Professor Esook Yoon
Department of Political Science
Kent State
University
Kent, OH 44240
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 available
upon request.)
AKPS membership application form available
online at www.akps.org
AKPS
Officers and the Governing Board (terms in parenthesis)
President: Seung-Ho Joo
(03-05), University of Minnesota-Morris
Vice President: Uk Heo (03-05), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Executive Secretary: Sunhyuk Kim (03-05), Korea University
Treasurer: Esook Yoon (03-05), Kent State University
Governing Board:
Stephan Haggard (02-05), University
of California-San Diego
Uk Heo (02-05), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Young Whan Kihl (03-06), Iowa
State University
Michael Launius (03-06), Western
Washington University
Toh-Kyeong Ahn (04-07), Florida
State University
Seung-Ho Joo (04-07), University of Minnesota-Morris
Esook Yoon (04-07), Kent State
University
Guidelines on Graduate Student Travel Grant
The Association of Korean
Political Studies is pleased to announce graduate student travel grant
opportunities for participation in 2005 APSA. Graduate students who will be
presenting a paper in one of AKPS sessions of 2005 APSA are eligible. This
grant is designed to induce graduate students’ involvement in AKPS and to
encourage their research on Korean political studies.
The funding decisions
will be based on the needs expressed by student in the grant application (see
description below) and on the merit of the student’s paper abstract. The
funding will pay travel and accommodation costs up to $150, and a maximum of
two 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 Esook Yoon by e-mail
at eyoon@kent.edu (Phone: 330-672-8928), 302 Bowman Hall , Department of
Political Science, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240. The deadline for
submission is December 10, 2005.
I. Application Form
(Please fill out the form
and e-mail it to Professor Esook Yoon at ejoon@kent.edu):
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 2005 APSA)
II. ABSTRACT
Paper title:
Abstract author(s):
Paper abstract:
(approximately 1,000 words)