Jungjae Hong 

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a 2026–27 Herb York Dissertation Fellow at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). I am also a recipient of UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship.

My research focuses on international security, with particular interests in nuclear politics, alliance politics, and international institutions. I examine how states pursue and provide security and how these efforts shape international politics. One strand of my research investigates how political institutions and strategic conditions shape military capabilities and their consequences for interstate conflict. The other examines how alliances shape security cooperation, deterrence, and political influence beyond the military domain.

I co-developed UNGAInsight, a dataset of United Nations General Assembly resolutions from 1990–2023 that provides detailed information on resolution topics, targeted countries and associated demands, and the political context of voting absences. An article introducing the dataset is forthcoming in the Journal of Peace Research. The data and codebook are available on the UNGAInsight website.

During my Ph.D., I participated in Columbia University’s Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS) and IGCC’s Public Policy and Nuclear Threats (PPNT) Boot Camp. Before beginning my Ph.D. at UCSB, I earned an M.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University and was a research fellow at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center (NEREC) at KAIST.

Email: jungjae_hong@ucsb.edu