Faculty
이용욱 (Lee, Yong Wook), 李容旭
- Position
- Professor
- Phone Number
- 02-3290-2181
- Research Areas
- Theories of International Relations, International Political Economy, East Asia
- Office
- Woodang Hall 506
- Degree
- Ph. D., Southern California University
- Homepage
- http://www.korea.ac.kr/~yongir/
- yongir@korea.ac.kr
Education
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Ph.D., International Relations, University of Southern California (2003) B.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Kansas (1995)
Professional Experience and Awards
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Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University (2015 – ) Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University (2010 – 2015) Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University (2008 – 2010) Assistant Professor, School of International and Area Studies & Department of Political Science, University of Oklahoma (2006 – 2008) Faculty Associate, U.S.-China Institute, University of Oklahoma (2006 – 2008) Freeman Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies & Department of East Asian Studies, Brown University (2004 – 2006) Lecturer, School of International Relations, University of Southern California (2003 – 2004) Visiting Professor, Institute of Korean Studies, Tübingen University, Germany (2018 – 2019) Visiting Professor, National Security College, Korea National Defense University (2018) Visiting Scholar, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan (2002)
Undergraduate/Graduate Courses
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Graduate Courses Power and Global Financial Order Culture and Global Society Japanese Foreign Policy Undergraduate Courses International Political Economy of Finance and Money East Asia in World Politics Japanese Foreign Policy
Journal Articles
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Lee, Boram, and Yong Wook Lee. 2022. “Experience, Communication, and Collective Action: Financial Autonomy and Capital Market Development in East Asia.” New Political Economy 27(5): 731–53. [Link to Paper]
Bae, Yooil, and Yong Wook Lee. 2020. “Socialized Soft Power: Recasting Analytical Path and Public Diplomacy.” Journal of International Relations and Development 23(4): 871–98. [Link to Paper]
Lee, Yong Wook. 2020. “Performing Civilisational Narratives in East Asia: Asian Values, Multiple Modernities, and the Politics of Economic Development.” Review of International Studies 46(4): 456–76. [Link to Paper]
Lee, Yong Wook. 2019. “Relational Ontology and the Politics of Boundary-Making: East Asian Financial Regionalism.” Politics 39(1): 18–34. [Link to Paper]
Lee, Yong Wook. 2015. “Nonhegemonic or Hegemonic Cooperation? Institutional Evolution of East Asian Financial Regionalism.” The Korean Journal of International Studies 13(1): 89–115. [Link to Paper]
Lee, Yong Wook. 2012. “Synthesis and Reformulation of Foreign Policy Change: Japan and East Asian Financial Regionalism.” Review of International Studies 38(4): 785–807. [Link to Paper]
Bae, Yooil, Dong-Ae Shin, and Yong Wook Lee. 2011. “Making and Unmaking of Transnational Environmental Cooperation: The Case of Reclamation Projects in Japan and Korea.” The Pacific Review 24(2): 201–23. [Link to Paper]
Lee, Yong Wook, and Sun Young Kwak. 2009. “Neo-Liberal Korea and Still Developmentalist Japan: Myth or Reality?” Global Economic Review 38(3): 277–95. [Link to Paper]
Lee, Yong Wook. 2009. “The Evolution of Korean Foreign Labor Policies in the Global Context: Toward the Politics of Societal (In)Security?” Korea Observer 40(2): 301–36. [Link to Paper]
Gries, Peter Hays, Qingmin Zhang, Yasuki Masui, and Yong Wook Lee. 2009. “Historical Beliefs and the Perception of Threat in Northeast Asia: Colonialism, the Tributary System, and China–Japan–Korea Relations in the Twenty-First Century.” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 9(2): 245–65. [Link to Paper]
Kwak, Sun-Young, and Yong Wook Lee. 2009. “Using Norms Strategically: Transnational Advocacy Networks’ Operation for North Korean Human Rights.” Asian Perspective 33(1): 33–74. [Link to Paper]
Lee, Yong Wook. 2008. “The Japanese Challenge to Neoliberalism: Who and What Is ‘Normal’ in the History of the World Economy?” Review of International Political Economy 15(4): 506–34. [Link to Paper]
Lee, Yong Wook. 2006. “Japan and the Asian Monetary Fund: An Identity–Intention Approach.” International Studies Quarterly 50(2): 339–66. [Link to Paper]
Lee, Yong Wook, and Hyemee Park. 2005. “The Politics of Foreign Labor Policy in Korea and Japan.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 35(2): 143–65. [Link to Paper]
Lee, Yong Wook. 2004. “The Origin of One Party Domination: America’s Reverse Course and the Emergence of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan.” The Journal of East Asian Affairs 18(2): 371–413. [Link to Paper]
Kim, Sunhyuk, and 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 19(2): 185–231. [Link to Paper]
Ji Hyeon Chung, Lee, Yong Wook . 2021. Cultural Relationalism and Universal Human Rights: Beyond Universalism and Relativism, Global Governance and Culture, 1(1): 31-53. [Link to Paper]Lee, Yong Wook . 2017. The Internationalization of the Yuan and Korea’s Financial Diplomacy: The Impossible Trinity and Strategic Choice, New Asia, 24(1): 164-194. [Link to Paper]Lee, Yong Wook . 2016. Threat Diversification and Global Governance: The Limits of State-Sovereignty System, Review of International and Area Studies, 25(3): 167-202. [Link to Paper]Lee, Yong Wook . 2016. Korea as a New Rule Shaper? Limits and Possibilities of Korea’s Middle Power Diplomacy in G20, National Strategy, 22(2): 61-94. [Link to Paper]Lee, Yong Wook . 2015. Economic Crises, Regional Institutions, and Integrative Process Model: The Chiang Mai Initiative, Peace Studies, 23(1): 261-294. [Link to Paper]Lee, Yong Wook . 2014. Constructivist International Political Economy: Methods and Applications, Journal of World Politics, 35(1): 283-320. [Link to Paper]Lee, Yong Wook, Kyong-Seok Ha . 2014. Multilateralization of FTAs in East Asia and South Korea’s Strategy towards Korea-China-Japan FTA, TPP, and RCEP, National Strategy, 20(1): 5-35. [Link to Paper]Lee, Yong Wook . 2013. “Korea and Japan in Institutionalization of East Asian Financial Cooperation: From Cooperation to Conflict?, Journal of International Area Studies, 17(2): 191-214. [Link to Paper]Lee, Yong Wook . 2012. The Choice of Korea in a Changing International Financial Order: Linking Regional to Global, National Strategy, 18(3): 5-34. [Link to Paper]Lee, Yong Wook . 2011. Global Financial Crisis and East Asian Financial Cooperation: The Asian Bond Market Initiative, Journal of World Politics, 32(1): 85-108. [Link to Paper]Lee, Yong Wook . 2011. The Rise of Yuan and the Fall of Dollar in the World of Money and Finance?, New Asia, 18(1): 108-136. [Link to Paper]Lee, Yong Wook . 2010. Soft Power’s Efficacy and Implications for Korean Soft Power Diplomacy, The Studies of International Affairs, 10(4): 189-216. [Link to Paper]
Books
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2018. Understanding East Asian Studies. Korea University Press. [Korean]. Coauthor.
2014. Complex Transformation of East Asia’s Regional Order and South Korea’s National Strategies (co-edited with Key-young Son). Korea University Asiatic Research Institute Press. [Korean]. Edited Volume.
2014. International Relations and Pluralism in Research Methodology (co-edited with Wang Hui Lee). Sapyong Publishing Co. [Korean]. Edited Volume.
2014. China’s Rise and Regional Integration in East Asia: Hegemony or Community? (co-edited with Key-young Son). Routledge. Edited Volume.
2012. Political Economy of East Asian Financial Regionalism: Institutional Developments and Issues. Korea University Asiatic Research Institute Press. [Korean]. Edited Volume.
2011. Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research. (with Wook Hee Shin, Wang Hui Lee, Dong Jun Cho). Eul Yu Publishing Co. [Korean]. Translation.
2008. The Japanese Challenge to the American Neoliberal World Order: Identity, Meaning, and Foreign Policy. Stanford University Press. Single Author.
Book Chapters
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2021. “China’s Hegemony and the Future of State Sovereignty System.” In Multiple Hegemonies: Twenty-First Century International Order between Hegemony and Posthegemony, edited by Key-young Son (Korea University Asiatic Research Institute Press), p. 255-293. [Korean]
2020. “Will Covid-19 Be A Game Changer to U.S.-China Confrontation?” In Post Covid-19 and Korea’s Future, edited by Yeoshije (Seoul Selection), p. 40-54. [Korean]
2020. “The Possibility, Limits, and Role of Korea’s Middle Power Financial Diplomacy: From Rule-Taker to Rule-Maker.” In South Korea’s Choice after Crisis: Global Financial Crisis, Order Transformation, and Middle Power Economic Diplomacy, edited by Yul Sohn (Hanwool MPlus), p. 211-244. [Korean]
2018. “International Relation of East Asia.” In Understanding East Asian Studies (Korea University Press), p. 199-221. [Korean]
2014. “Introduction.” In China’s Rise and Regional Integration in East Asia: Hegemony or Community?, edited by Yong Wook Lee and Key-young Son (Routledge), p. 1-13.
2012. “Introduction: East Asian Financial Regionalism Research and Issues.” In Political Economy of East Asian Financial Regionalism: Institutional Developments and Issues, edited by Yong Wook Lee (Korea University Asiatic Research Institute Press), p. 8-24. [Korean]
2012. “Conclusion.” In Political Economy of East Asian Financial Regionalism: Institutional Developments and Issues, edited by Yong Wook Lee (Korea University Asiatic Research Institute Press), p. 194-206. [Korean]
2011. “Soft Power as Productive Power.” In Public Diplomacy and Soft Power in East Asia, edited by Sook Jong Lee and Jan Melissen (Palgrave-MacMillan), p. 33-49.
2011. “Korean Materialism.” In Understanding Korean Identity: Through the Lens of Opinion Survey, edited by Won Taek Kang and Nae Young Lee (EAI Press), p. 215-232. [Korean]
학술대회 논문
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Other Writings
2020. “U.S.-China Currency Statecraft and Korea’s Strategy.” EAI Special Report (ISBN: 979-11-6617-007-2-95340) [Korean]
2020. “Will Covid-19 be a Global Game Changer? Will It Just Witness U.S. Financial Power Once Again?” Yeosijae Issue Brief [Korean]
2019. “Korea’s Financial Statecraft.” National Assembly Futures Institute (“Korea’s International Economic Statecraft”) [Korean]
2017. “The Present and Future of East Asian Financial Cooperation from the Perspective of International Order.” Yeosijae Issue Brief [Korean]
2017. “Changing Liberal International Order and East Asian Financial Cooperation at a Crossroad.” JPI Report No. 2017-02. [Korean]
2014. “Preface: East Asian Regional Order Architecture in the Era of Complex Transformation.” (with Key-young Son). In Complex Transformation of East Asia’s Regional Order and South Korea’s National Strategies, edited by Yong Wook Lee and Key-young Son (Korea University Asiatic Research Institute Press) [Korean], p. 11-20.
2014. “Preface: Methodological Pluralism in International Relations.” (with Wang Hui Lee). In International Relations and Pluralism in Research Methodology, edited with Wang Hui Lee and Yong Wook Lee (Sapyong Publishing Co.) [Korean], p. 5-22.
2013. “When Historical Tensions and Financial Cooperation Collide.” East Asia Forum (September 4, 2013) www.eastasiaforum.org /author/yong-wook-lee
2013. FTA 2.0: A New Trade Strategy for South Korea, 2013 EAI Special Report (with Yul Sohn, Young Kwan Song, Seung Joo Lee, Chae Sung Chun) [Korean] (April 2013)
2009. Regional Financial Solidarity without the United States: Contested Neoliberalism in East Asia. EAI Asia Security Initiative Working Paper No. 1, East Asia Institute, Seoul, Korea.
2002. The Discursive Construction of Development Identity: How Could Japan Challenge the Neoclassical Economic Orthodoxy? CIS Working Paper Series 2-13, Center for International Studies, USC.
Under Review
Politics among Relations: East Asia’s Struggle for Financial Autonomy (Book Manuscript.
“Interpreting Power and Practicing Power Relations: Nonhegemonic Cooperation in East Asian Financial Governance.”
“Democratizing Finance in East Asian Financial Regionalism: Promise, Limits, and Future Possibilities.”
Work in Progress
“Money of Account and Currency Competition and Statecraft.”
“Return to Politics: Power in Agent-Structure Problematique.”
“Foundation of Regional Institutional Cooperation: Common or Syncopated Interests?”
“Identity from the Future (‘Future Me’): Discourse and Practice of Identity Politics.”
“Truth, Knowledge Cumulation, and Relational Ontology: Interparadigm Reflexivity.”
“Power of Single Case Study: Rethinking Generalization and Prediction.”
“Agency in Varieties of Process Tracing Methods.”