

Dr. Yoochul Lee
Senior Research Associate
IPUS, Seoul National University
Office Tel:
+82-31-5176-2353
Email:
Address:
the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University, 173, Seouldaehak-ro, Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
Field of Interest
IR Theory, East Asian International Politics, War Ethics, Emerging Technology and Security, Economic Statecraft
Education
2015-2021
PhD.
University of Bristol
2013-2014
MA in International Relations
University of Sheffield
Thesis Tittle:
The Struggle for Justice: Korea in the Historical Construction of International Order in East Asia
Dissertation Tittle:
G2 Strategic Competition between the U.S. and China, and the Obama Administration’s ‘Pivot to Asia’
Graduation with Distinction
2006-2008
MA in International Relations
Hanshin University
Dissertation Tittle:
A Study of Northeast Asian Peace Process : Focus on the Six-Party Talks
Graduation with Distinction
Work Experience
March 2025 - NOW
March 2023 - February 2025
July 2022 - March 2023
April 2020 - February 2021
August 2019 - December 2020
Senior Fellow, the Institute for Peace and Unification at Seoul National University
Visiting Professor
Kyung Hee University
Director
at Pacific-Asia Centre, IGA
Research Fellow
at Inha Center of International Relations
Research Fellow
at Korea Society Opinion Institute
Oversea Research Fellow
at National Election Commission of ROK
Teaching Associate
at Ehwa W's University
Teaching Associate
at JeonBuk National University
Teaching Associate
at Seoul National University
Visiting Research Associate
at Hanshin University Eurasia Institute
Teaching Associate
at Inha University, Sungshin Women's University
Teaching Associate
at Sookmyung Women's University, Hanshin University
March 2025 - NOW
March 2023 - NOW
May 2022 - Now
March 2022 - August 2023
February 2021 - August 2024
Publication:
Academic Journal
Forthcoming
[Accepted] "Tragic Nation, Koreas: Post-Unification Discourse for One Nation Two States in the Korean Peninsula" Review of International Organizations (Q1, SSCI)
[Revision] Korea's Self-Determination, Allowed Justice or Normative Justice? Tensions between Justice and Order over Self-Determination New Political Science (Q2, SSCI)
[Accepted] "The Reason, We Should be “Critical” : Critical Reflections on Positivist International Relations Theories, Focusing and Critical Theory," Political Geography (Q1/ SSCI)
Jan. 2025 to NOW
The New Civilization, Artificial Intelligence as the Standard of the Digital Economy: Digital Ecconomy Polarization in the Global South, Oeconomia Copernicana,10-1, https://oeconomiacopernicana.com/index.php/OECO/article/view/191
A Journey to Where?: Internationalization and Diugitalization of the RMB and the Belt and Road Initiative, Journal of Digital Economy, 4-1, https://journalofdigitaleconomy.com/index.php/JDE/article/view/93
Transitional Justice, Time between War and Peace: War Crime and its Prosecutions, Revista Espanola de Derecho Canonico (Scopus Q2), 5-1, 15-24, https://doi.org/10.79425/rev.v5i1.15-24
Human Security Norms and Reconstruction of Global Governance: Meta-Governance for Human Security, South Eastern European Journal of Public Health, XXVI -S1 https://doi.org/10.70135/seejph.vi.4689
The War Without Humans: The Ethical Issues Arising from the Automation of Warfare, Machine Science Journal (Scopus) 17-1, 50-56, https://www.scimagojrmms.com/ms/issue-details.php?pid=86
Jan. 2024 to Dec. 2024
Exploring Planetary Politics in the Post-Human Era: The Ontological Turn of International Political 'Theory' Under the Climate Crisis, Contemporary Philosophy (Scopus, Q1) 23-2.
Peace for Public Health Cooperation between the Cities: Epistemological Turn of Urban Diplomacy on Korean Question, South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (Scopus), XXV-2, 367-376, https://doi.org/10.70135/seejph.vi.2681
Writing a Note on the Critical Theory of International Relations: Can Critical Theories of International Relations, International Journal of Humanities Education (Scopus), 12-2, 368-386, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14407689
[Leading Article] "For the ‘Diligent yet Impoverished Global South’: Post-Colonial Reconstruction of Korean International Development Study", Journal of Asian Studies (KCI) 27 (4) pp. 39-60.
"Intervention, between Sovereignty and Human Rights : J. Habermas versus C. Schmitt," Korea and World Review (KCI) 6(5)
"Synchronizing AI and Human Epistemology: Ethical Issues and Multi-faceted Responsibility System in the Use of AI Lethal Autonomous Weapons," Korean Journal of International Relations (KCI) 64(3) http://doi.org/10.14731/kjir.2024.09.64.3.47
"Decolonization and Cold War Dynamics Through the Establishment of Embassies of South Korea and Indonesia," Journal of Asian Studies (KCI) 27(3). http://doi.org/10.21740/jas.2024.8.31.2.139
"When the War Ended: Most Urgent Moral and Political Priorities for the Transition to Peace," Korea and Global Society (KCI) 8(4). https://doi.org/10.22718/kga.2024.8.4.038
"A Journey Toward a Non-Western International Relations Theory: Non-Western Conceptualization of the English School," Pacific Focus (SSCI), 39(2), DOI: 10.1111/pafo.12254
Jan to Dec 2023
“Compass” without a Magnetic Needle : Outlook of EU Military Strategy without UK, Korea and Global Affairs(KCI) 7(6). https://doi.org/10.22718/kga.2023.7.6.020
The Paradox of Value based Alliances - The Korean Peninsula between the Cold War and the New Cold War, Economy and Society (KCI) 140. https://doi.org/10.18207/criso.2023..140.314
Reason Why We Do Care of Future Generations: Theory of Justice in the Anthropocene, Review of Contemporary Philosophy (Scopus, Q1) 22-1, https://doi.org/10.52783/rcp.927
Trigger of American Hegemony: the origin of the US Hegemony, Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice (Scopus Q2) 15-2, 263-381, https://doi.org/10.52783/crlsj.382
Korean Identity, as a Middle Power in IR: International Relations Theory of Identity and its Critique, Linguistic and Philosophical Investig (Scopus Q1) 22-2, 115-129, https://doi.org/10.52783/lpi.473
Epistemological Reconstruction Urban Peace Diplomacy on Korean Question, The Journal of Humanities and Social science(KCI)
Emerging Technology and Economic Security of the United States: The US Export Control Policy Toward China, Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice (Scopus Q2) 15-1, 22-34, https://doi.org/10.52783/crlsj.384
Preliminary Discussion of Post-Western the Korean Studies, The Journal of Asian Studies(KCI) 26 (2). https://doi.org/10.21740/jas.2023.05.26.2.177
Jan to Dec 2022
Rising of Emerging Security and Evolution of China’s Economic Statecraft on Rare Earths, Journal of Northeast Asian Studies(KCI), 27(4), 29-56
[Leading Article] Conflict between the Order and Norms in the War in Ukraine: From the Ethics of Power to Immoralismus,
Korean Journal of International Relations(KCI) 62(4), 7-56. https://doi.org/10.14731/kjir.2022.12.62.4.7
Does Just War Theory Still Work?: Ukraine-Russia War, Christianity and Thoughts, 763 31-41
A Meta-theoretical Review and Alternative Theory of International Politics of Climate Crisis: Planetary Politics, The Journal of Humanities and Social Science 21(KCI), 13 (4)
Jan to Dec 2021
An Alternative Conceptual Framework of International Political Economy: Focusing on Neo-Gramscianism
The Journal of Humanities and Social Science 21, 12 (3) 2021
For Turning from Westerncentrism of International Relations Theories: Focusing on the Examination of English School Theory
The Journal of International Relations 24 (2), 2021, 225-260. https://doi.org/10.15235/jir.2021.06.24.2.225
The Reconstruction of Korean Question by English School of International Relations Theory, Tension between Order and Justice
Journal of Asian Studies, 24(2), 2021, 173-190. https://doi.org/10.21740/jas.2021.05.24.2.173.
Research Paper
2023
AI 등 신기술의 군축비확산 분야에의 영향 관련 논의 동향 연구, 외교부
2022
기후위기와 국제법 동향 연구, 국립외교원
2021
對 日本 시민사회 및 지자체를 통한 정책공공외교 추진방안, 외교부
2020
통상분야 국민 여론수렴 및 인식조사사업, 통상교섭본부
2018-2021
해외 선거제도 연구 (영국), 중앙선거관리위원회
Publication:
Other Articles
2024
[서평] ‘30년의 위기’ 이후, ‘새로운 유토피아’는 가능한가? — 차태서의 『30년의 위기』, 문화과학
2022
애도의 책임을 짊어져야 할 시간, 뉴래디컬리뷰
자유주의와 신냉전: 미국의 자유주의가 마주한 현실과 비서구성, 뉴래디컬리뷰
미국과 중국의 전략 경쟁과 신냉전의 안보,뉴래디컬리뷰
[서평]'공산주의라는 이념'과 국제정치'학'의 만남 -알랭 바디우 외, 『공산주의라는 이념』, 뉴래디컬리뷰
Before 2021
기로에 선 일본, 2010, 메이데이 (교육부 추천 학술도서)
아메리카 약자혁명, 2009, 메이데이 (교육부 추천 논술도서)
이득재씨에게 보내는 편지 : 『국민이라는 괴물』이득재씨의 서평, 「비‘국민화’의 회로는 정말 가능한가」에 대한 응답, 진보평론, 2009
동북아시아 평화체제의 대안적 모델과 ‘베이징 평화 프로세스’. 진보평론, 2009