Faculty & Staff
Taehyun Kim
Visiting Scholar
Project Leader - Korea Politics and Security
Taehyun Kim teaches at the Graduate School of International Studies, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, S. Korea. A graduate from Seoul National University’s International Relations Department (BA 1981; MA 1983), he received Ph.D. in political science from the Ohio State University in 1991 with a dissertation on U.S.-Soviet rivalry in the Third World. Before joining Chung-Ang University in 1998, he was a visiting assistant professor at University of Florida at Gainesville (1989-90), Merriam Fellow at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1990-91), and a senior fellow and director for foreign policy and security studies program at the Sejong Institute (1992-1998). Currently, he also serves as the director of the Center for Foreign Policy and National Security of the East Asia Institute. He was also a visiting scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security at the Ohio State University for several periods, the latest of which was August 2006-July 2007, and currently a visiting professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology.
He has written scores of articles, either in English or Korean, on such subject as international relations theory, foreign policy analysis, inter-Korean relations, international relations in East Asia, and other international security issues. His latest writings include “Brother or Enemy? An Analysis of South Korean Mass Public Attitudes toward North Korea” (2000; mimeo); “Engaging the Estranged: Reciprocity and Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula” (Journal of East Asian Studies, 2003); “The Latest Wave of Anti-Americanism in South Korea: Its Political Psychological Roots” (Korea and World Affairs, 2004, in Korean); and “More Than Meets the Eye: What North Korean Nuclear Crisis Portends for East Asian Security” (Korea Journal, 2005).
He has contributed columns on foreign and national security affairs to such news papers as Chosun Ilbo, Dong-A Ilbo, Joong-Ang Ilbo, Munhwa Ilbo, Segye Ilbo, Kyunghyang Shinmun and Seoul Shinmun. He also has advised South Korean government for foreign policy and national security issues in a number of capacities, such as the Blue House’s National Security Council, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Presidential Committee on Northeast Asian Initiative and the Auditing Board.