Jun 24, 2016

The Middle East Reopens for Business but with Old and New Hazards for South Korea

By Alon Levkowitz

The Middle East offers huge trade opportunities to South Korea, especially after the P5+1 agreement with Iran. President Park Geun-hye’s May 2016 visit to Iran...

Jun 21, 2016

Authoritarian Regimes and Economic Sanction Effectiveness: The Case of North Korea

By Dursun Peksen

North Korea has been under several rounds of economic sanctions since the beginning of the Korean War in 1950. Economic coercion, however, has had no...

May 19, 2016

Transboundary Air Pollution in Northeast Asia: The Political Economy of Yellow Dust, Particulate Matter, and PM2.5

By Matthew Shapiro

This paper details the nature of transboundary air pollution in Northeast Asia, employing an analytical approach rooted in the political economy of the region. To...

Jan 20, 2016

Navigating Korea’s Labor Market Reforms

By Chang Hong-geun

Faced with growing youth unemployment and public dissatisfaction with labor market conditions, representatives from South Korean labor, management, and government finalized an agreement to reform...

Nov 18, 2015

Legitimacy and Stability of North Korea

By Son Taek Wang

Since the death of Kim Il-sung in 1994 there have been numerous predictions that the collapse of the North Korean political system would be imminent,...

Oct 20, 2015

Does the Korean Economy Depend Too Much on Samsung?

KEI is proud to release newest work in its Academic Paper Series, Does the Korean Economy Depend Too Much on Samsung? by Dr. Hyoung Tae...

Oct 1, 2015

Russia and the Two Koreas in the Context of Moscow’s Asian Policy

By Stephen Blank

KEI is proud to release newest work in its Academic Paper Series, Russia and the Two Koreas in the Context of Moscow’s Asian Policy by...

Jul 22, 2015

Deciphering PLA Media Commentaries on North Korea: All Show or Real Talk?

By Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga

As North Korea’s most important supporter on the international stage, China’s handling of relations with Pyongyang plays an important role in determining the future development...

Jun 11, 2015

Korean Security and Unification Dilemmas: A Russian Perspective

By Georgy Toloraya

Russia, one of the four important players in Korea, is focused on Korea due to its “turn to the East” policy. It is increasingly less...

Mar 12, 2015

The Whisper in the Ear: Re-defector Press Conference as Information Management Tool

By Brian Gleason, Christopher Green, Steven Denney

Although coercion is a key element in the governing strategy of the North Korean party-state, the authorities in Pyongyang do not hold political power at...

Dec 3, 2014

North Korea’s Cyber Warfare and Challenges for the U.S.-ROK Alliance

By Alexandre Mansourov

Despite an inferior information communication environment, North Korea has a high capacity to conduct robust cyber operations aimed at collecting foreign intelligence, disrupting foreign comput-ers,...

Oct 28, 2014

Drone Warfare on the Korean Peninsula: Paradigm Shift or Paradigm Risk?

By Van Jackson

On several occasions since 2013, crashed North Korean drones have been discovered in strategically significant areas in South Korea. Do North Korean drones represent a...