Underwood International College

Books & Book chapters:

• Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century, with Orville Schell (Random House, 2013; translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean).
• Spying, Subversion, and Great Power Identity Conflict between the United States and China, in Japan and Asia’s Contested Order: The Interplay of Security, Economics and Identity, edited by T.J. Pempel and Yul Sohn (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 85-107.
• Bridging the Divide: Moon Jae-in’s Korean Peace Initiative, edited with Chung-in Moon (Yonsei University Press, 2019)
•  "What Makes Kim Jong Un Different?," in North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War?, edited by William Overholt (Harvard Kennedy School, 2019)    
•  "Strong, Prosperous or Great? North Korean Security and Foreign Policy," with Chung-in Moon, in The Oxford Handbook on International Relations in Asia (Oxford, 2014)

• "North Korea in 2019: A Year of Strategic Adjustment, Asian Survey (February 2020): 69-78.    
• "Can Kim Jong Un Be Stopped?: A Report on the North Korean Missile Crisis," Australian Foreign Affairs (October 2017): 109-122.
  
• "The Candlelight Revolution," Dissent (Spring 2017): 98-101.
• "Trump and North Korea: The Art of the Deal," Foreign Affairs (March/April 2017): 46-51.
• "Irony on Parade: Sino-Korean Friendship 1945/2015," Journal of Asian Studies (November 2015): 797-820.
• "The Kishi Effect: A Political Genealogy of ROK-Japan Relations," Asian Perspective (July-September 2015): 441-460.
• "A Peace Deferred: U.S. National Interest in a Korean Peace Process," American Foreign Policy Interests (July/August 2014): 1-6.  
• "The Constitutional Debate in Early Qing China," Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (October 2013): 149-168. * Pyongyang Perseveres: Why Washington Should Learn to Work with North Korea, Foreign Affairs (July/August 2013): 177-182.
• "Gu Yanwu’s Mixed Model and the Problem of Two Despotisms," Late Imperial China (June 2013): 1-27.
•  "The Disappointments of Disengagement: Assessing Obama’s North Korea Policy," Asian Perspective (April-June 2013): 149-182.
•  "Harmonious in China: The Ancient Sources of Modern Doctrine," Policy Review (April/May 2008): 35-44.

Commentaries:

• "China as Equal: Putting China as Rival into Historical Context," Perspectives in History (September 17, 2020)
• "How Democracy Won the First Coronavirus Election," New York Times (April 16, 2020) 
• "Why Xi Jinping Is Courting Kim Jong Un," New York Times (June 23, 2019) 
• "South Korean Can Save the Nuclear Talks: After Hanoi, Back to Seoul," Foreign Affairs (March 7, 2019) 
• "Kim Jong Un Has a Dream. The US Should Help Him Realize It," New York Times (September 21, 2018) 
• "Panmunjom Spring," 38 North (May 1, 2018) 
• "Pompeo’s Visit Suggests Trump-Kim Summit Is On Track. Here’s Why Kim Wants To Talk," Washington Post (April 18, 2018) 
• "North Korea: US Fear Risks Squandering the Chance for Peace," Financial Times (February 8, 2018) 
• "Normalize the Hermit Kingdom," Foreign Policy (January 18, 2018) 
• "Inter-Korean Talks Are More Than Just a ‘Good Thing’," Foreign Affairs (January 7, 2018) 
• "Take Preventive War Off The Table," Foreign Affairs (August 22, 2017) 
• "Instead of Threatening North Korea, Trump Should Try This," Washington Post (April 23, 2017) 
• "Cooperate or Else!: North Korea at Mar-A-Lago," 38 North (April 4, 2017) 
• "How to Make a Deal with North Korea," New York Times (March 29, 2017) 
• "The China Factor," 38 North (October 31, 2016) 
• "Listening to Korea’s Liberals," 38 North (April 20, 2016) 
• "Hong Kong’s New Citizens: Democracy and Resistance in a Changing City," Foreign Affairs (July 13, 2015)
• "Lessons from North Korea," Foreign Affairs (April 5, 2015) 
• "The Urgency of Now: Why Obama Needs to Take the Lead on North Korea," 38 North (December 9, 2014). 
• "Form Controls Content: The Two Koreas Move, Washington Stands Still," 38 North (February 17, 2014). 
• "Out of Tiananmen’s Shadow: Why the Protestors Have Already Won," Foreign Affairs (October 6, 2014). 
• "Let’s Be Friends," 38 North (December 5, 2013). 
• "China’s Labor’s Lost: The End of Re-education Through Labor Camps," Foreign Affairs (November 25, 2013). 
• "Austerity with Chinese Characteristics," Foreign Affairs (August 7, 2013). 
• "Park vs. Kim: Who Wins This Game of Thrones?," 38 North (June 18, 2013). 
• "Reform Sprouts in North Korea?," YaleGlobal (July 26, 2012). 
• "The Land of Lesser Evils," with Chung-in Moon, Foreign Policy (March 29, 2012). 
• "Analytical Failure and the North Korean Quagmire," with Chung-in Moon, 38 North (April 7, 2011).