Robert E. Kelly
Professor
Department Political Science and Diplomacy, Pusan National University
Busan, 46241, KOREA
Website: www.AsianSecurityBlog.wordpress.com
Twitter: @Robert_E_Kelly (65k followers)
Contributor, The National Interest (author page)
Contributor, The Lowy Interpreter (author page)
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
International Relations Theory in East Asia
U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia
Korean Foreign Policy
International Financial Institutions (especially the World Bank and IMF)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, March 2005 (M.A., 2002)
Major: International Relations
Second Major: Political Theory
Dissertation: The Impact of Non-Governmental Organizations on the Bretton Woods Institutions
Committee: Chadwick Alger, William Liddle, Alex Thompson, Richard Ned Lebow
B.A., History and Political Science, Miami University of Ohio, May 1994, Phi Beta Kappa
PUBLICATIONS
“North Korea is Ultimately China’s Problem,” with Isaac Fish, Foreign Affairs, June 8, 2018
“Trump’s North Korean Nuclear Theatrics,” New York Review of Books, June 5, 2018
“History Wars in 2018? (Japan-Korea),” Debate with Jennifer Lind, Asan Institute, February 19-April 19, 2018
“Terrorism’s Place in South Korean Grand Strategy,” Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, 29/3, 2017: 409-428
“An Agenda for South Korea’s New Leader,” The New York Times, May 9, 2017
“Using Analytical Eclecticism for Improved Policy Relevance: Is There a Case for South Korean Support of Abenomics?,” Pacific Focus, 31/1, 2016: 99-124
“The Optimism of Classical Realism: Thucydides, Clausewitz, Morgenthau,” 21st Century Political Science Review, 25/4, 2015: 249-269
“North Korea should Dominate South Korean Foreign Policy,” The Lowy Interpreter, four-part debate with Van Jackson on ROK Grand Strategy, July 29, 2015
“Korea, Japan, and ‘Korea Fatigue’,” Real Clear Defense, two parts, May 19 & June 6, 2015
“The Real Reason Asia Should Fear North Korea’s Sub-Launched Missiles,” The National
Interest, May 11, 2015
“Why Invading North Korea is a Really Bad Idea,” The National Interest, January 30, 2015
“China’s Interests in Korean Unification: How Much Longer is the ‘Buffer’ Worth It?” Korean Journal of Security Affairs 19/2, 2014: 4-21
“Korea’s Dokdo Claim is about more than just Territory – It’s Identity,” China Policy Institute Blog, East Asian Territorial Disputes Symposium, October 13, 2014
“Russia: Between Empire and Modernity,” The Diplomat, October 9, 2014
“The ‘Pivot’ and Its Problems: American Foreign Policy in Northeast Asia,” Pacific Review,
27/3, 2014: 479-503
“Should the US Retrench from South Korea?,” The Lowy Interpreter, August 20, 22 & October 17, 2014
“Unintended Consequences of US Alliances in Asia,” CSIS, PacNet #32A, April 23, 2014
“Comparing China and the Kaiser’s Germany,” The Lowy Interpreter, March 12-13, 2014
“Do US Alliances Create Moral Hazard in Asian Conflicts?,” Newsweek Japan & Newsweek
Korea (joint edition), May 2013
“North Korea is the Boy Who Cried Wolf: There will be No War,” The Diplomat, April 10,
2013; AND Response to my Critics: North Korea is Another ‘Upper Volta with Nukes,’ so Ignore Them,” China Policy Institute Blog, April 21, 2013
“Park’s Recreation,” Foreign Affairs, December 18, 2012
“A ‘Confucian Long Peace’ in Pre-Western East Asia?” European Journal of International
Relations 18/3, 2012: 407-30
“Kim Jong Un’s Balancing Act,” Korean National Defense University, Research Institute for National Security Affairs Forum, 22, September 2012: 1-4
“Defining IR: Is it Asia’s Turn?” International Relations and Security Network, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, July 30, 2012
“Korea-EU Relations – Beyond the FTA,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 12/1, 2012: 101-32
“Kim Jong Un’s Ascent is a Unique Negotiating Opportunity,” Korean National Defense
University, Research Institute for National Security Affairs Forum, 20, March 2012: 1-5
“The German-Korean Unification Parallel,” Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 23/4, 2011:
457-72
“Assessing the Impact of Nongovernmental Organizations on International Organizations: The World Bank and IMF,” International Political Science Review 32/3, 2011: 323-44
“The Impact of Arab Spring on North Korea,” Korean National Defense University, Research Institute for National Security Affairs Forum, 17, June 2011: 5-8
“American Dual Containment in Asia,” Geopolitics, 15/4, 2010: 705-725
“North Korea’s Shelling of Yeonpyeong Island: Interpretation and Response,” Korean National Defense University, Research Institute for National Security Affairs Forum, 15, November 2010: 1-5
“Forging Autonomy in a Tough Neighborhood: Korea’s Foreign Policy Struggle,” 21st Century Political Science Review, 19/3, 2009: 353-380
“Portrait of Global Civil Society at the Bretton Woods Institutions: Civil Society Dialogue
Participation, 2000-2007,” Korean Journal of International Relations, 48/5, 2008: 51-80
“Persistent Dependentist and Developmentalist Understandings of the State in Development
Theory,” Development in Practice, 18/3, 2008: 319-332
“From Global War on Terror to Containment,” Perspectives on Terrorism, 2/4, 2008: 12-14
“Is Terrorism Always Wrong?” Perspectives on Terrorism, 1/1, 2007: 1-7
“Security Theory in the ‘New Regionalism,’” International Studies Rev., 9/2, 2007: 197-229
“One Last Chance in Iraq,” OSU Journal of Politics and International Affairs, 1/1, 2007: 135-146
“From IR to Global Governance Theory: Conceptualizations of NGOs since Rio 1992,” Journal of Civil Society, 3/1, 2007: 81-99
“A Micro-View of Global Governance: The Spring and Annual Meetings of the Bretton Woods Institutions,” Transnational Associations 2003/4: 203-06
“Thucydides and Hegemony: Athens and the United States,” with Richard Ned Lebow, Review of International Studies 27/4 2001: 593-609
Book Reviews:
The End of the American World Order, by Amitav Acharya, H-Net, October 2014
North Korea in Transition: Politics, Economics and Society, eds. Kyung-Ae Park and Scott
Snyder, Pacific Affairs, 86/4, 2013: 932-34
The European Union and South Korea: The Legal Framework for Strengthening Trade,
Economic and Political Relations, ed. James Harrison, H-Net, August 2013
American Culture of War: A History of US Military Force from World War II to Operation
Enduring Freedom, by Adrian Lewis, Cercles, December 15, 2012
Creating Credibility: Legitimacy and Accountability for Transnational Civil Society, by David Brown, Development and Practice, 19/8, 2009: 1079-1080
Globalization and Its Counter-Forces in Southeast Asia, ed. Terence Chong, Development in
Practice, 19/3, 2009: 431-432
International Water Security: Domestic Threats and Opportunities, eds. Nevelina Pachova,
Mikiyasu Nakayama & Libor Jansky, Development in Practice, 19/2, 2009: 267-269
International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction, by Robert Caplan, Journal of Conflict Studies, 28, 2008
World Bank / International Monetary Fund Reports:
“Portrait of Global Civil Society at the Bretton Woods Institutions, 2000-09,” IMF, 2009
“The Impact of NGOs on the Bretton Woods Institutions,” World Bank, 2006
IR Blogging – Editorials – Popular Essays:
Duck of Minerva (author page)
The Diplomat (author page)
The National Interest (author page)
East Asia Forum (author page)
Newsweek Japan & Newsweek Korea (author page)
CNN-GPS (author page)
JoongAng Daily (International Herald Tribune partner in Korea – author page)
Korea Times & Korea Herald, multiple op-eds, selected examples
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan, June-August 2017
Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies’ Teachers’ Workshop, Johns Hopkins University, June 5-9, 2017
US-Korea NextGen Scholars Program, CSIS & Univ. of Southern California, 2015-2016
Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy, Columbia University, July 6-20, 2014
Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Syracuse University, June 17-30, 2012
Summer Workshop on Teaching about Terrorism, Oklahoma University, July 10-18, 2007
Academic Fellowship on Terrorism, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies & Tel Aviv
University, Israel, May 26-June 6, 2007
Two Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships (Russian), US Dept of Education, 1999, 2000
University Fellow, Ohio State University, 1997-1998
Bundestag Internship Program, University of Bonn & German Parliament, Germany, 1994-95
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses Taught:
- East Asian Security
- Introduction to International Relations Theory
- Globalization/International Political Economy
- International Organization
- US Foreign Policy
- Terrorism
- US Politics
- Contemporary Political Theory
- Middle East politics
Certified by Blackboard, October 2016
Certified by Canvas, June 2017
Pusan National University Recognition:
- Selected for Faculty Excellence coverage in university magazine, August 2013
- Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010
Ohio State University Recognition:
- Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching Nominee, Ohio State University, 2007
- Outstanding Teacher of the Year Nominee, Ohio State University, 2006
SELECTED CONFERENCES
Invited Presenter – Discussant – Participant:
Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity, Speaker on South Korean diplomacy, June 26-28, 2018
Shangri-La Dialogue, Delegate, IISS, Singapore, June 1-3, 2018
Sydney Writers’ Festival, Speaker on northeast Asia, May 1-6, 2018
Eighth Army Conference on North Korea, USAG-Humphreys, South Korea, March 16, 2018
UBS Greater China Conference, Speaker on North Korea, Shanghai, January 7-11, 2018
The New Yorker Festival, Speaker on North Korea, October 6-8, 2017
“Korea and the World,” Speech at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Seoul, May 12, 2017
“Political Crisis in South Korea and Northeast Asia,” Speech at Ateneo University of Manila, Philippines, May 5, 2017
“China’s Interests in Korean Unification,” Korean National Defense University annual
conference, Seoul, September 12, 2014
“US Retrenchment from Korea?,” United States Forces Korea, Seoul, September 11, 2014
Economist’s annual ‘Bellwether’ conference on the South Korean economy, Seoul,
September/October 2010 – 2015; Speaker in 2013-15
“Unification – the Korea Project,” CSIS-University of Southern California, Seoul, January 22, 2013
“Defining the US Pivot to Asia,” MBC East Asia Institute, Busan, S Korea, October 26, 2012
“Denuclearization and Peace Community on the Korean Peninsula,” Korean Ministry of National Defense & Korean Institute of Defense Analysis, Seoul, October 27, 2011
“Was There an Historical East Asian International System?” Korean Studies Institute–University of Southern California, Los Angeles, March 2011
“Current Status and Future Prospects of the Issues on the Korean Peninsula Post-Cheonan,”
Korean Ministry of National Defense & Korean Institute of Defense Analysis, Seoul, September 30, 2010
“Asia 21,” Korean Government-IMF Conference, Daejeon, Korea, July 12-13, 2010
“Resolving Security Threats to World Peace,” Korean Freedom Foundation, June 9, 2010
“Latest Advances on International Security,” China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, May 30, 2010
“EU-Korea Relations,” EU Delegation to Korea-Pusan National University EU Center, May 6-7, 2010
“Prospects for the Situation of the Korean Peninsula and the North Korean Nuclear Issue in
2010,” Institute for National Security Studies, Seoul, December 7, 2009
Research Presentation (Dissertation-related), International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC,
August 10, 2009
“East Asia and China in a Changing Global Order,” Institute of Chinese Studies, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea, May 14-15, 2009
Dissertation Presentation, World Bank, Washington, DC, September 13, 2005
Paper Presentation: “Liberal Imperial Management and the Future of U.S. Hegemony”,
International Studies Association – Midwest, St. Louis, Missouri, November 7-8, 2003
Paper Presentation: “Political Culture and Foreign Policy: Rethinking the Melian Dialogue,”
with Richard Ned Lebow, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia, September 2-5, 1999
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & TRAINING
Invited Article & Book Reviewer:
International Studies Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, European Journal of International Relations, Security Studies, Review of International Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Pacific Affairs, Rowman & Littlefield, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, European Political Science Review, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Routledge, Geopolitics, International Political Science Review, Sage, Korean Journal of Security Affairs, Études Internationales, Prentice Hall
Consulting:
- Contributor to the Economist Intelligence Unit, Asia
- Member of SK Ministry of Foreign Affairs Foreign Professors ‘Dol Dahm’ Circle
- Gerson Lehrman Group
- Guidepoint Global
- Securitas Korea
- Coleman Research Group
- Recipient of the Nelson Report
TV Interviews, 2012 – present
- CNN
- British Broadcasting Company (BBC)
- CNBC
- ABC
- MSNBC
- Bloomberg
- Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC)
- International Television News (ITN)
- Sky News
- Channel NewsAsia
- CGTN
- Al Jazeera English
- Arirang TV (Korean English language TV)
Radio commentary on BBC, NPR, ABC, VoA, and Korean English-language radio, 2010-
Visited North Korea, summer 2012; travelogue impressions
Founding Participant, “Terrorism Research Initiative” & journal Perspectives on Terrorism,
2007-2008
U.S. Army Educator Tour, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, April 18-22, 2006
Field Representative, Martin R. Hoke, M.C. (Member of the US House of Representatives, 10th district Ohio), 1996-97
Internships:
- Christian Schmidt, MdB (Member of the German Bundestag), Bonn 1995-96
- Hanns Seidel Foundation, Munich, Germany, Spring 1993
- Cowen & Company (brokerage firm), Cleveland, Ohio, Summer 1992
- John Boehner, M.C. (House of Representatives, 8-OH), Wash., D.C. Summer 1991
- State of Ohio, Washington Office, Washington, D.C., Summer 1991
Institutional Affiliations:
- International Studies Association
- American Political Science Association
- Korean Association of International Studies
- Korean Political Science Association
LANGUAGE SKILLS
German: Excellent: Accredited by the German-American Chamber of Commerce, April 23, 1994
French: Very Good: Transcript available from Laval University (Quebec, Canada), August 1997
Russian: Average: Certificate in Advanced Russian from Moscow State Univ., August 31, 2000
Korean: Average: intensive sabbatical year training, Pusan National University, 2015 – 2016
Latin: Basic
Classical Greek: Basic
Language Study Abroad:
- Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, June 2015 – August 2016
- Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, Summer 2000
- Nevsky Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, Summer 1999
- Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada, Summer 1997
- Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, Summer 1995
- Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany, Winter 1994
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, 1992-1993
- Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany, Summer 1992
REFERENCES
Dr. David C. Kang
Professor of International Relations and Business School of International Relations
University of Southern California Los Angeles, California 90089
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
+1-213-821-4319
Dr. Chul-Soon Lee
Professor
Department of Political Science and Diplomacy Pusan National University
46241 Busan
SOUTH KOREA
+82-(0)10-8747-9193
Mr. Jack Finkenbinder
Program Coordinator
Troy University
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JAPAN
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