[Woodang Distinguished Speaker Colloquium #4] Narratives and the Making of South Korean Grand Strategy

“Narratives and the Making of South Korean Grand Strategy”.

Speaker: Professor Andrew Yeo (Brookings Institution, The Catholic University of America)
Topic: “Narratives and the Making of South Korean Grand Strategy”.
Date and Time: 4:30am, Friday, 24, May, 2024.
Venue: Room 521, Korea University SK Future Hall

Andrew Yeo is a senior fellow and the SK-Korea Foundation Chair at Brookings Institution’s Center for Asia Policy Studies. He is also a professor of politics at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Yeo is also the author or editor of six books including State, Society, and Markets in North Korea (Cambridge University Press 2021), Asia’s Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century (Stanford University Press 2019) and Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests (Cambridge University Press 2011). His next book is a forthcoming co-edited volume (with Isaac Kardon) on Great Power Competition and Chinese, Russian, and American Force Posture in the 21st Century with Brookings Institution Press

Yeo is currently working on a project that examines the role of narratives and grand strategy in Asia, and in particular South Korea. His other research interests address the Indo-Pacific strategies of the United States and its allies, Asian regional architecture, U.S. grand strategy and force posture, and the role of narratives and discourse in U.S. foreign policy. Dr. Yeo’s scholarly publications have appeared in International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Politics Studies, Comparative Politics, European Journal of International Relations, Perspectives on Politics, and Journal of East Asian Studies among others. His other writings and commentary have appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Quarterly and The Economist and in media outlets including CNN, NBC, Fox News, MSNBC, BBC, and NPR. He received his Ph.D. in government from Cornell University, and B.A. in psychology and international studies from Northwestern University.