[International Conference] Is Korean International Relations Theory Possible and Desirable?
2015.06.24
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한국적 국제정치이론은 가능한가?
Is Korean International Relations Theory Possible and Desirable?
일시: 2015년 7월 3일 10:15~17:30
장소: 고려대학교 국제관 회의실(115)
주최: 고려대학교 정치외교학과 BK21플러스 사업단
아세아문제연구소 HK사업단
평화와 민주주의연구소
3 July 2015 Friday
International Seminar Room
(Room 115, International Hall, Korea University)
BK21 Plus Corps. Department of Political Science and International Relations
Asiatic Research Institute
Peace and Democracy Institute
Korea University
10:15AM-10:30AM Opening Remarks
Yong Wook LEE (Korea University)
10:30AM-12:00PM Session 1
Mature English School, Emerging Korean School
Moderator: Shin-wha LEE (Korea University)
Ian HALL (Griffith University)
“Constructing an English school of International Relations”
Discussion: Yong-Soo EUN (Hanyang University)
Chaesung CHUN (Seoul National University)
“Varieties of Anarchy: Complex Organizing Principles of Northeast Asian Regional Order”
Discussion: Dong Sun LEE (Korea University)
12:00PM-2:00PM Lunch
2:00PM-3:30PM Session 2
Emerging Asian Schools: China and Japan
Moderator: Hyung-Min JOO (Korea University)
Yongjin ZHANG (Bristol University)
“The ‘International Turn’ in the Chinese and the Trans-Atlantic IR -Towards Global Renaissance of the History of International Thought”
Discussion: Wang Hwi LEE (Ajou University)
Kosuke SHIMIZU (Ryukoku University)
“Why There is No Non-Western IR Theory in Japanese?: Genealogy of Japanese IR, and the Study of Regional History”
Discussion: Young Chul CHO (Chonbuk National University)
3:30PM-4:00PM Coffee Break
4:00PM-5:30PM Session 3
Roundtable Discussion on the Direction of Korean IR
Participants: Yong Wook LEE (Korea University)
Key-young SON (Korea University)
Hun Joon KIM (Korea University)
Yongjin ZHANG (Bristol University)
Kosuke SHIMIZU (Ryukoku University)
Ian HALL (Griffith University)
Chaesung CHUN (Seoul National University)
6:30PM Dinner
Speakers
Ian Hall is Professor at the Griffith University. His research and teaching interests include the history of international thought and Indian foreign policy. He has published a number of books and articles in these areas, and is currently working on an ARC-funded Discovery project on the evolution of Indian thinking about international relations since 1964. He is also a regular book reviewer for a number of journals and contributor of opinion pieces to various Australian and Indian media outlets. He currently sits on the editorial boards of Asian Politics and Policy and the Australian Journal of International Affairs. His publications includes: Radicals and Reactionaries in Twentieth Century International Thought (Palgrave, 2015), The Engagement of India: Strategies and Responses (Georgetown University Press, 2015), Interpreting Global Security (Routledge, 2014), Dilemmas of Decline: British Intellectuals and World Politics, 1945-1975 (University of California Press, 2012), British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier (Palgrave, 2009), and The International Thought of Martin Wight (Palgrave, 2006).
Yongjin Zhang is Professor of International Politics at the University of Bristol. His most recent publications include International Orders in the Early Modern World: Before the Rise of the West (Routledge, 2014, co-edited with Shogo Suzuki and Joe Quirk); Contesting International Society in East Asia (Cambridge, 2014, co-edited with Barry Buzan); and ‘The Idea of Order in Ancient Chinese Political Thought: A Wightian Exploration’, International Affairs, 90 (1) 2014: 167-183. Professor Zhang’s publications have also appeared in European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, The China Journal and Journal of Contemporary China, among others. His principal research interest and publications cut across the disciplinary boundaries of International Relations theory and Chinese history, politics, economic transformation and international relations. His core research informs and is informed by the ‘English School’ tradition in International Relations theory, but the broad theoretical approach he adopts is more appropriately regarded as eclectic. He has also published in the area of the political economy of Chinese global businesses and that of East Asian regionalism and regional security in the Asia-Pacific. One of his current research projects is on International Relations in Ancient China: Ideas, Institutions and Law, an interdisciplinary enquiry drawing upon Chinese political philosophy, history of ideas, ancient history and theories of international relations.
Kosuke Shimizu is Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Afrasian Research Centre, Ryukoku University, Japan. He is currently working on critical theories, non-Western IRT, and philosophy of the Kyoto School. His single-authored books are Kanyo to Boryoku [Tolerance and Violence] (Kyoto: Nakanishiya, 2013); Gurobaru Kenryoku to Homososharity [Global Power and Homosociality] (Tokyo: Ochanomizushobo, 2006); Tekisuto Kokusai Seiji Keizaigaku [An International Political Economy Textbook] (Kyoto: Minerva, 2004); and Shiminha no tameno Kokusai Seiji Keizaigaku [International Political Economy for Citizens] (Tokyo: Shakaihihyosha, 2002). Other publications include Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific: Migration, Language, and Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014) (co-edited with William S. Bradley); ‘Ambivalent Relationship of Japan’s Soft Power Diplomacy and Princess Mononoke: Tosaka Jun’s philosophy of culture as moral reflection’, Japanese Journal of Political Science (2014); ‘Materializing the ‘Non-Western’: Two stories of Japanese philosophers on culture and politics in the inter-war period’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2014); and ‘Nishida Kitaro and Japan's Interwar Foreign Policy: War Involvement and Culturalist Political Discourse’, International Relations of the Asia Pacific (2011).
Chaesung Chun is a Professor at the Department of International Relations in Seoul National University, majoring in international relations theory and security relations in East Asia. He is a Director of Center for International Studies at Seoul National University, and also a director of Asian Security Initiative of East Asian Institute. He is a member of Presidential Committee for Preparation for Unification, Advisory Committee for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Ministry of Reunification. He was a visiting professor at Keio University in Tokyo from 2010-2011. He received his MA degree from the Seoul National University, and Ph.D degree from Northwestern University in the field of International Relations Theory. Major books and articles include East Asian International Relations, Is Politics Moral: Reinhold Niebuhr’s Transcendental Realism, “A Study on the Formation of European Modern States System,” “Critique of constructivism from the perspective of postmodernism and realism,” “The Rise of New Powers and the Responding Strategies of Other Countries.”
Yong Wook Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Korea University. He has research interests in constructivism and its application to international economic relations. Lee is finishing up a book manuscript on East Asian financial regionalism. Prior to Korea University, Lee taught at the University of Oklahoma and Brown University.
Key-young Son is Humanities Korea (HK) Professor at the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University. His areas of research include East Asian and global politics. He served as lecturer of Korean studies at the University of Sheffield. His recent publications include ‘Middle Powers and the Rise of China: ‘Identity Norms’ of Dependency and Activism and the Outlook for Japan-South Korea Relations vis-à-vis the Great Powers’, Japanese Journal of Political Science 15 (1): 91-112 (2014) and ‘Harmony, the Supremacy of Human Agency and East Asia’s Mega-Discourses for Governance’, Chinese Journal of International Politics 5 (4): 395-423 (2012).
Hun Joon Kim is Assistant Professor of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Korea University. He has research interests in international norms and institutions, international human rights and transitional justice, international ethics, and international relations theory. His recent publication includes The Massacres at Mt Halla: Sixty Years of Truth-Seeking in South Korea (Cornell University Press 2014) and Transitional Justice in the Asia Pacific (Cambridge University Press 2014).
