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John Feffer, "Why North Korea 2013 Is Not East Germany 1989"
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- Bong Youngshik
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- 13-11-19 15:23
In his lecture titled "Why North Korea 2013 Is Not East Germany 1989," Mr. Feffer discussed what the experiences of Eastern Europe over the last 25 years tell us about the likely trajectory of North Korea and, by extension, South Korea.
Date / Time: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 / 10:30am – 01:00pm
Venue: Conference Room (2F), The Asan Institute for Policy Studies
Speaker
John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. Mr. Feffer is also a senior associate at the Asia Institute in Seoul, Korea. He was a Pantech Fellow at Stanford University, where he focused on the impact of globalization on Korean food and agriculture. He was also an Open Society Foundation Fellow in 2012-13, during which he conducted interviews in Eastern Europe with many of the same activists, policymakers and academics that met in the region in 1989-90. He has travelled to North Korea three times and to South Korea more than three dozen times. He has written numerous articles and essays about Korea that have been published by the Korean Economic Institute, the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, The Nation, World Policy Journal, and The American Prospect. He is the author of several books, including North Korea, South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis (Seven Stories, 2003), and the editor of The Future of U.S.-Korean Relations: Imbalance of Power (Routledge, 2006).
Bong Youngshik
Visiting Research Fellow
Dr. BONG Youngshik is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Previously, Dr. Bong was an assistant professor in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. He was also a Freeman Post-doctoral Fellow at Wellesley College and an assistant professor of Korean Studies at Williams College. His research interests include the interplay between nationalism and security issues such as historical and territorial issues in East Asia, anti-Americanism, and the ROK-US Alliance. He is the author of “Past Is Still Present: The San Francisco System and a Multilateral Security Regime in East Asia,” Korea Observer (2010) and co-editor of Japan in Crisis: What It Will Take for Japan to Rise Again? (with T.J. Pempel, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies, 2012). Dr. Bong received his B.A. in political science from Yonsei University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.