Publications
This page lists my academic working papers and published work (peer-reviewed articles, books, book chapters, research papers & reports, and reviews). Download my CV for a complete overview of my professional experiences and research.
See SinoNK.com for an overview of my work there. Articles written for The Diplomat (2014-2019) can be found at my author page.
Working Papers
“Scale-ups and Canada’s Innovation Policy Suite: Usage and Impacts,” with Ryan Kelly, David Wolfe, and Carlos Rossell. [in preparation for submission]
“The Innovation Policy Preferences of Scale-up Firms,” with Travis Southin and David Wolfe. [under review]
“한국인의 남북통일방식에 대한 의식 결정요인 분석: 컨조인트 분석 조사를 중심으로” [Analyzing the Determinants of South Korean Attitudes Toward Korean Unification: A Conjoint Analysis], with Peter Ward and Christopher Green [in kr]. [under review]
“Public Attitudes Towards Co-Ethnic Migrant Integration: Evidence from South Korea,” with Christopher Green. [under review]
“Why Do Democratic Societies Tolerate Undemocratic Laws? Sorting Public Support for the National Security Act in South Korea,” with Christopher Green. [under review]
“Public Support for Migrant Entrepreneurship: The Case of North Koreans in the Republic of Korea,” with Peter Ward and Christopher Green. [under review]
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2023. “How Autocracies Disrupt Unsanctioned Information Flows: The Role of State Power and Social Capital in North Korea,” with Peter Ward. Forthcoming in Problems of Post-Communism.
2022. “Welfare Chauvinism Among Co-Ethnics: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in South Korea,” with Peter Ward, International Migration 60(50): 74-90. DOI: 10.1111/imig.12937
2022. “Localization of Global Networks: New Mandates for MNEs in Regional Economies,” with David Wolfe and Rick DiFrancesco, Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 15(2): 323-342. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsac002
2021. “Who Should be Admitted? Conjoint Analysis of Attitudes toward Immigrants in South Korea,” with Christopher Green, Ethnicities 21(1): 120-145. DOI: 10.1177/1468796820916609
2021. “North Korean Patriotism: Assessing the Success and Failures of a Nation,” with Christopher Green, Korea Journal 61(1): 154–185. DOI: 10.25024/kj.2021.61.1.154
2020. “The limits of ethnic capital impacts of social desirability on Korean views of co-ethnic immigration,” with Peter Ward and Christopher Green, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1797477
2020. “Entrepreneurs and Cluster Evolution: The Transformation of Toronto’s ICT Cluster,” with David Wolfe and Travis Southin, Regional Studies 55(2): 196-207. DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2020.1762854
2019. “Studying North Korea through North Korean Migrants: Lessons from the Field,” with Jay Song, Critical Asian Studies 51(3): 451-466. DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2019.1611462
2014. “How Authoritarian Regimes Maintain Domain Consensus: North Korea’s Information Strategies in the Kim Jong-un Era,” with Adam Cathcart and Christopher Green, Review of Korean Studies 17(2): 145-178. DOI: http://doi.org/10.25024/review.2014.17.2.005
2013. “Towards a Developmental Understanding of North Korea: An Institutional Approach to Economic Reform and Development,” with Christopher Green, European Journal of Korean Studies, 15: 92-111. LINK
2013. “North Korea’s Cultural Diplomacy in the Early Kim Jong-un Era,” with Adam Cathcart, North Korean Review 9(2): 29-42. DOI: doi.org/10.3172/NKR.9.2.29
Theses
2019. Does Democracy Matter? Political Change and National Identification in South Korea and Beyond (Ph.D Dissertation, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto).
2013. Nation, State, and National Economy: The Early 19th Century American Developmental State (MA Thesis, Graduate School of Yonsei University).
Books
2022. Koreanness Under Democracy: Why Institutions Matter for National Identity and Belonging [in progress]
2020. Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands, edited with Adam Cathcart and Christopher Green (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press).
Book Chapters
2023. “Plus ça Change? South Korean Public Opinion of the United States During the Trump Administration,” in Divided America, Divided Korea, Mitchell Lerner and David Fields (eds.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
2019. “Democratic Support and Generational Change in South Korea,” in Korea and the World: New Frontiers in Korean Studies, Gregg A. Brazinsky (ed.) (Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield).
2016. “Kim Jong-un and the Practice of Songun Politics,” with Christopher Green and Adam Cathcart, Change and Continuity in North Korean Politics, Adam Cathcart et al. (eds.) (Routledge).
2016. “Pockets of Efficiency: An Institutional Approach to Economic Reform and Development,” with Christopher Green, Change and Continuity in North Korean Politics, Adam Cathcart et al. (eds.) (Routledge).
2015. “The Implications of Civic Diplomacy for ROK Foreign Policy,” with Peter Hayes et al., in Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia: Foreign Policies and the Korean Peninsula, Peter Hayes and Kiho Yi (eds.) (Open Book Publishers).
Reports & Selected Papers
2023. “Because It Is Good for South Korea: Public Support for Defector Entrepreneurship,” with Christopher Green. 38 North, January.
2022. “Human Rights and the Future of the International Order: Where Does Seoul Stand?” Korea On Point, November.
2022. “Improving North Korean Defector Integration in South Korea: Survey Findings and Recommendations,” with Christopher Green. 38 North, May.
2022. “South Koreans Support Immigration, But Conditions Apply.” Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), March.
2022. “Information Dissemination in North Korea: A Report for NGOs,” with Peter Ward. Report for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), January.
2021. “Into the Scale-up-verse: Exploring the Landscape of Canada’s High Performing Firms,” with Viet Vu and Ryan Kelly. Innovation Policy Lab and Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship, December.
2021. “Great Canadian Survey of 2021: Insights for the Council of Canadian Innovators“, with Viet Vu. Innovation Policy Lab and Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship, July.
2021. “Just Out of Reach: The Elusive Quest to Measure the Digital Economy“, with Viet Vu. Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship, June.
2021. “Scale the Gap: The Impact of Growth Barriers on Women Entrepreneurs in Canadian High-Growth Firms,” with Viet Vu. Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship, April.
2020. “North Korean Refugee Entrepreneurs in South Korea: Unveiling Korea’s Hidden Potential: Unveiling Korea’s Hidden Potential,” with Peter Ward and Andray Abrahamian. The Asia Foundation, December.
2019. “Political Order and Civic Space in the Asia Pacific: A Multilevel Analysis of Trends, 1989-2020.” United Nations Office of Global Insights and Policy, June.
2019. “New Values & Old Orders: Where do North Koreans Fit in the New South Korea?,” with Christopher Green and Peter Ward. Leiden Asia Centre, May.
2019. “Impact of COVID-19 on the Market Research Community.” Delvinia-Insights Association Special Report. May.
2019. “COVID-19 and joblessness in Canada: A firm perspective,” with Viet Vu. Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, April.
2019. “The COVID-19 Crisis and Policy Preferences of Canadian Technology Scale-ups,” with Viet Vu. Innovation Policy Lab Research Report, 2020-02, March.
2018. “Unification in Action? The National Identity of North Korean Defector-Migrants: Insights and Implications,” with Christopher Green, Korean Economic Institute of America: Academic Paper Series, October.
2016. “Identité nationale et nationalisme nord-coréens” [North Korean national identity and nationalism], Korea Analysis no. 11: 40-44.
2016. “«Hell Chosun», expression de l’insatisfaction de la jeunesse sudcoréenne” [“Hell Chosen:”] Expressions of Dissatisfaction among South Korean Youth], Korea Analysis no. 9: 42-45.
2015. “The Whisper in the Ear: Re-defector Press Conference as Information Management Tool,” with Christopher Green and Brian Gleason, Korean Economic Institute of America: Academic Paper Series, March.
Selected Reviews
2021. “After the Korean War: An Intimate History, by Heonik Kwon,” Pacific Affairs.
2018. “Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945, by Carter Eckert,” Korea Journal 58(3): 184-190.
2018. “Unveiling the North Korean Economy: Collapse and Transition, by Byung-Yeon Kim,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 25(1): 93-96.
2018. “North Korea’s Hidden Revolution, by Jieun Baek,” Pacific Affairs, Vol 91, no. 1: 176-178.
2015. “Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 by Todd A. Henry,” British Academy of Korean Studies (BAKS) Journal, October 15.
2015. “The Korean War: An International History, by Wada Haruki,” European Journal of Korean Studies, May 4.
2015. “Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945 by Jun Uchida,” European Journal of Korean Studies, May 13.
2014. “The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia,” Asan Forum 2(6).
2012. “To Never Forget, One Must First Know,” review of Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, by Blaine Harden, Korea Review, 2(2): 171-175.
Last updated: February 27, 2023
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