Dongwook Kim

Welcome! I am Lecturer in International Relations (Assistant Professor in the USA) in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to coming to the ANU, I was Hewlett Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, and taught at the University of Chicago as Lecturer in International Relations and at Marquette University as Assistant Professor of Political Science in the USA. 

My research and teaching interests include International Relations theory, international law and organizations, human rights, transnational nongovernmental activism, policy diffusion, American foreign policy, mixed-methods research design, and quantitative methods. I am currently working on a book manuscript examining the diffusion of various transitional justice mechanisms worldwide. I am also working on several article manuscripts on human rights international nongovernmental organizations' advocacy techniques, the growth of transnational human rights NGO networks, and transitional justice, as well as collaboration projects on South Korean chaebols, American labor union foundings, and transitions to and away from democracy. My research has been published in the journals International Organization, Perspectives on Politics, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of East Asian Studies, and Pacific Affairs.