Peer-reviewed Publications
"External Threats and Democratization: Burma 1988 and South Korea 1987," Review of International Studies, forthcoming
"Paying It Forward: Generalized Reciprocity in Mass Opinion on Foreign Aid " (with Changkeun Lee), Public Opinion Quarterly, forthcoming.
"Democratic Ties that Bind? US-China Conflict and Foreign Policy Opinion in Asian Democracies", (with Sijeong Lim), International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2025.
"How Mandatory Military Service can Divide rather than Unite: Conscription, Gender, and Military Trust in South Korea 2003-2021" (with YuJung Julia Lee), Armed Forces and Society, Vol. 51, No. 3, 2024.
"Conscription and Gender in Mass Opinion on Foreign Affairs," (with YuJung Julia Lee), Journal of Global Security Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2024.
"Human Rights vs Security in South Korean views of North Korea," (with YuJung Julia Lee), Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 37, No. 5. 2024.
"Impossible Allies? Korean Views of Japan in a Changing World Order," Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. 56, No. 6, 2021. Data Replication
"Gender, Events, and Elite Messages in Mass Opinion on Foreign Relations," (with YuJung Julia Lee), Journal of Global Security Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2021.
"Limits of Engagement? The Sunshine Policy, Nuclear Tests, and South Korean Views of North Korea 1995-2015 ," International Relations of the Asia Pacific, Vol 20, No. 3, 2020.
"International Conflict and Violent Authoritarian Breakdown," International Interactions, Vol. 45, No. 5, 2019.
"The North Korean Regime, Domestic Instability, and International Conflict," North Korean Review, Vol. 14, No.1, 2018.
"The South Korean Left's Northern Question," Korea Yearbook 2009 - Politics, Economy, Society, No. 3, September 2009. (Best Graduate Student Paper Award)
Other Publications
"Preventing a Post-Collapse Crisis in North Korea - How to Avoid Famine and Mass Migration" (with Andrew Natsios), Foreign Affairs, January 2018.
"Sino-American Cooperation and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis: A Reassessment," Scowcroft Policy Paper Series, No. 11, November 2017.
Working Papers
"International Conflict and Authoritarian Stability," revise and resubmit
"External Threats and Democratization from Military Rule," revise and resubmit
"Two Paths to the Bomb - Public Support for Indigenous vs Ally's Nuclear Weapons"
"Favored (Only) Son? - Declining Birthrates, Conscription, and Mass Opinion on Foreign Affairs" (with Julia YuJung Lee)
"Realism in Expectation: A Reassessment of the Critique of U.S.-China Policy during the 1950s"
"Strategic Ambiguity, Credibility, and Nuclear Escalation during the Taiwan Straits Crises"
"Military Trust under Conventional and Nuclear Threats"