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Dr. Yoochul Lee

Senior Research Associate

IPUS, Seoul National University

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 +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 CrisisContemporary 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 HegemonyContemporary 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 ArticleConflict 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

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