Please join SIS-OR and AU Korea for a virtual panel on the future of US alliances in Asia. Our speakers will discuss the strategies of Australia and South Korea toward the changing US-China relationship and the shaping of a new international order.

Moderated by

Ji-Young Lee: Associate Professor of International Relations and C.W.Lim and KF Professor of Korean Studies at American University

Speakers

Iain Henry: Senior Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, Australia

Andrew Yeo: Professor of Politics at The Catholic University of America, the United States

Yukyung Yeo: Professor at the College of International Studies at Kyung Hee University, South Korea

About the speakers

Iain D. Henry is a Senior Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. His research interests include alliance theory and politics, Asian security, the Cold War in Asia, diplomatic history and Australian strategic policy. His research has been published in International Security, the Australian Journal of International Affairs and Security Challenges. He has published commentary in The Canberra Times and the Nikkei Asian Review, as well as through blogs such as Lawfare. Iain completed his PhD and MA at the Australian National University, and a Bachelor of Arts at the University of New South Wales. In 2014 he was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. A graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy, he has previously worked for the Australian Army, the Australian Public Service, and Qantas Airways.

Andrew Yeo is a Professor of Politics at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Asia’s Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century (Stanford University Press, 2019) and author or co-editor of three other books: North Korean Human Rights: Activists and Networks (Cambridge University Press 2018); Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests (Cambridge University Press 2011); and Living in an Age of Mistrust: An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust in Contemporary Society and Politics and How to get it Back (Routledge Press 2017). His research and teaching interests include international relations theory, Asian security, narratives and discourse, the formation of beliefs, ideas, and worldviews, civil society, social and transnational movements, U.S. grand strategy and global force posture, Korean politics, and North Korea. Dr. Yeo’s scholarly publications have appeared in International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, Journal of East Asian Studies, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific among others.

Yukyung Yeo is Professor of the College of International Studies at Kyung Hee University, South Korea. She is the author of Varieties of State Regulation: How China Regulates Its Socialist Market Economy (Harvard University Press, 2020). Before joining Kyung Hee University, she worked at the City University of Hong Kong as the post-doctoral fellow during 2007-2009 and as Assistant Professor during 2009-2011. Her research areas are Chinese political economy and foreign economic policy. They include state regulation in China’s strategic industries, state-business relations, institutional changes in the socialist market economy, as well as Chinese foreign aid regime and policies. Her research appears in The China Quarterly, Pacific Review, Journal of Contemporary China, and China Review. Professor Yeo received her Ph. D (political science) from the University of Maryland-College Park in 2007.

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