2008 APSA/AKPS PROGRAM 

Program Chair, JJ Suh, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS      (jsuh8@jhu.edu)

Panel I:  Identifying Korea, Othering Neighbors

Chair: Terence Roehrig, Naval War College, terence.roehrig@usnwc.edu

Papers:

The Politics of the Dokdo/Takeshima Issue
Youngshik Daniel Bong, American University, youngshikbong@hotmail.com

Language Games of US-Japan Negotiation: Speech Act Analysis of Conflict over Wartime Comfort Women in 2007
Kiwoong Yang, University of Hawaii at Manoa, kwyang@hallym.ac.kr

Korean Nationalism and the Anti-American sentiment in the Post-Cold War Era
Geun Koh, University of Delaware, gnkoh@udel.edu

North Korea’s Nuclear Ambition and Identity Politics: the Security Dilemma in the Six-Party Talks
Soon-ok Shin, University of Warwick, jammyshin@hotmail.com

Shifts in North Korean Strategies in the Asymmetric Conflict with the U.S.?
Kyung-Ae Park, University of British Columbia, kpark@politics.ubc.ca

Discussant: Mikyoung Kim, Hiroshima Peace Institute, mkkim@peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp
Discussant: Terence Roehrig, Naval War College, terence.roehrig@usnwc.edu

Panel II:  Korea’s Responses to Globalization

Chair: Jongsoo James Lee, Stonehill College, jameslee@post.harvard.edu

Papers:

The Political Logic of Financial Reform: Assessing Reform Outcomes A Decade After Crisis in South Korea and Japan
Heon Joo Jung, Indiana University, Bloomington, heonjung@indiana.edu

Divided Workers in the Era of Globalization: South Korean Case
Ji-Young Kim, Ewha University

Crafting and Dismantling the Social Contract: The Changing State-Society Relations in Globalizing Korea
Sang-Young Park, University of Hawaii, sangyoun@hawaii.edu

South Korean Food Security or Neo-Colonialism? Daewoo Logistics' Industrial Agriculture in Madagascar
Jeffrey L. Gower, SUNY, Buffalo, jgower@justice.com

Environmental Sustainability in East Asia: Policies and Technological Output in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan
Matthew A. Shapiro, Illinois Institute of Technology, mattheas@usc.edu

Discussant: Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego, shaggard@ucsd.edu

Panel III:  Consolidating Democracy in South Korea?

Chair: Jong Oh Ra, Hollins University, jra@hollins.edu

Papers:

An Early Assessment of the Lee Myung Bak Presidency: Leadership Style and Qualities
Sung Deuk Hahm and Yong Hwan Choi, Korea University, hahm33@hotmail.com;  cyhzz@hanmail.net

Democracy without Parties? Explaining party under-institutionalization in Korea
Yoonkyung Lee, SUNY, Binghamton, yklee@binghamton.edu

Neoliberalism and Korean Democracy: Initial Assessments
Jungmin Seo, University of Hawaii, Manoa, seoj@hawaii.edu

Is South Korea Succeeding in Controlling Corruption?
Jong-sung You, University of California, San Diego, jsyou@ucsd.edu

The old friend is better than the new one: Continuity and Change in South Korea’s foreign policy under President Lee Myung-bak
Alisher Akhmadjanovich Khamidov and Jae-Jung Suh, Johns Hopkins University, akhamido@hotmail.com

Discussant: Doh C. Shin (invited), University of Missouri, ShinD@missouri.edu