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2023 - 2024 Policy Advisor for ROK-Africa Summit Advisory Committee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Korea
2023 - 2024 Editor-in-chief, Journal of International and Area Studies, Seoul National University, Korea
2023 - 2025 Board Member, SNU ESG Committee, Seoul National University, Korea
2023 - 2025 Chair, Seoul National University Social Responsibility (SNUSR), Seoul National University, Korea
2023 - 2024 Public Relations Director, Korea Academic Council on the United Nations System (KACUNS), Korea
2023 - 2024 Editor-in-Chief, International Development Cooperation Review, Korea Association of International Development and Cooperation (KAIDEC), Korea
2022 - present Member of KOICA Advisory Commitee, Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Korea
2022 - present Director, Asian-Africa Center, Seoul National University Asia Center, Seoul National University, Korea
2022 - 2023 Editorial Board, Journal of the Korean Association of African Studies, Korean Association of African Studies (KAAS), Korea
2021 - present Editorial Board, Journal of International Development Cooperation, KOICA, Korea
2021 - present Editorial Board, Global Governance & Culture, Hanyang University, Korea
2021 - 2022 Consultant, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland
2021 - 2024 Member of the Committee for International Development Cooperation (CIDC), Prime Minister's Office, Korea
2021 - 2022 Director of Planning, Korea Academic Council on the United Nations System (KACUNS), Korea
2021 - 2023 Deputy Vice President for Communication, Office of Planning and Coordination, Seoul National University, Korea
2020 - 2022 Board Member of the National Committee on Sustainable Development, Ministry of Environment, Korea
2020 - 2021 Board Member of the Policy Committee, Ministry of Justice, Korea
2020 - present Chairman of the Diplomacy and Unification Committee, Anmin Institute for Public Policy, Korea
2020 - 2022 Board Member of the Sustainable Development Committee, the City of Seoul, Korea
2020 - present Executive Committee Member of the Raphael International, Korea
2020 - 2023 Executive Committee Member of the Korea Institute Center for Sustainable Development, Korea
2020 - 2022 Adjunct Researcher & Steering Committee Member of Institute for Sustainable Development, Seoul National University
2019 - present Advisor of the Avisory Committee on Child Welfare Research, Child Fund Korea
2019 - present Editor-in-Chief, Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, IPUS, Seoul National University, Korea
2019 - 2021 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, GSIS, Seoul National University, Korea
2019 - 2021 Deputy Head of Peace and Cooperation, Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS), Seoul National University, Korea
2019 - 2020 Editor-in-Chief, International Development Cooperation Review, KAIDEC, Korea
2018 - 2022 Member of Trustee Board, Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Korea
2018 - 2019 Executive Secretary, Korean Association of Human Rights Studies, Korea
2018 - 2020 Member of Policy Planning Committee, Korea NGO Council for Overseas Development Cooperation (KCOC), Korea
2018 - 2019 Associate Dean for Student Affairs, GSIS, Seoul National University
2018 Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
2017 - 2018 Fulbright Wilson Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA.
2017 Resource Person, United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD), Korea
2017 Executive Secretary, Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS), Korea
2016 - present Editorial Board, Journal of Poverty Alleviation and International Development, Yonsei University, Korea
2016 - 2017 Associate Dean for International Affairs, GSIS, Seoul National University, Korea
2016 Visiting Professor, DAAD Global South Project, University of Tuebingen, Germany
2016 Invited Professor, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) - Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), Japan
2015 - 2020 Collaborating Researcher, JSPS Core-to-Core Program, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Japan
2015 - 2017 Standing Director for External Affairs, Seoul National University Faculty Council, Korea
2015 - 2016 Research Fellow, DAAD Global South Project, University of Tuebingen, Germany
2015 - present Distribution Committee Member, Babonanum & One-Body One-Spirit, Korea
2015 Panelist, UN Human Rights Council & Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva
2015 - 2016 Consultant, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, Bangkok, Thailand
2015 - 2016 Director, Yulchon-GSIS Center for Emerging Economies, Seoul National University, Korea
2015 - present Adjunct Researcher, Asia Development Institute, Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University, Korea
2014 Partner Researcher, Africa's Asian Options (AFRASO), Goethe Universitat, Germany
2014 - 2016 Expert Member, ODA Research, Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Korea
2014 - 2015 Editorial Board, Korean Journal of International Relations, Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS), Korea
2014 - present Research Fellow, Seoul National University American Studies Institute, Korea
2013 - present Research Fellow, Civil Society Program, Seoul National University Asia Center, Korea
2013 - 2017 Chairperson of International Affairs, Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ), Korea
2013 - 2016 Executive Secretary, Korea Association for International and Development Cooperation (KAIDEC), Korea
2012 - 2018 Policy Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Korea
2012 - 2022 Collaborating Researcher of the Social Science Korea (SSK) on "Inclusive Global Partnership for Development", Kyunghee University, Korea
2012 - 2014 Committee Member, External Liaison Committee & Research Committee, Korean Sociological Association (KSA), Korea
2010 - 2014 Collaborating Researcher of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland
2012 Board Member of RC18 (Asian and Pacific Studies), International Political Science Association (IPSA)
2011 - 2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Ewha Womans University, Korea
2009 Visiting Professor, GEMASS & University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), France
2008 - 2011 Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan
2006 - 2008 Doctoral Fellow, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA
D.Phil. in Social Policy and Intervention (Social Development), University of Oxford, UK
Ph.D. in International Relations (International Development), The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA
M.Phil. in Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK
M.A. in International Cooperation, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University
B.A. in Sociology, Seoul National University (with honors)
In English:
Asianization of Asia, edited by Chang Kyung-Sup, Kim Taekyoon, and Lee Joonkoo (Abingdon: Routledge, 2024).
"Institutionalizing Gender-Based Violence within African Democracies: A Comparative Analysis of South Africa and Botswana," Africa Development 48, forthcoming in 2024 (co-authored).
"Asianizing the Integrated Approach for Development Cooperation: Scaling-Up Dynamics of KOICA's Peace-Development Nexus Projects in Lao PDR and Cambodia," Asian International Studies Review 24(2), 2023 (co-authored).
"Governance Failure in Global Health Crises and Prospects of Collective Action for Resilience in Asia: In Search of Democratic Middle Powers," in Hyun-Chin Lim, Haeran Lim, Suk-ki Kong, and Taekyoon Kim (eds.), Covid-19 in East Asia and Aftermath: Re-globalization, Democracy and Civil Society (Gwacheon: Jininjin, 2023).
"Navigating the Conceptual Transformation of Triangular Cooperation: Emerging Trends and Strategic Values for International Development," Korean Social Science Journal 50(2), 2023 (co-authored).
"Decoding South Korea's Development Cooperation through the Lens of Developmental State Politics: In Search of Symbiotic Embeddedness," in Sanae Ito (ed.), The 'Easternisation' of Development? The Politics of East Asia's Developmentalist Cooperation (Rugby: Practical Action Publishing, 2023) (co-authored).
"Embedded Hybridity of Ethical Consumerism: At the Nexus of Consumer Justice Movements and Social Economies in South Korea," Korea Journal 63(3), 2023.
"Does Humanitarian Aid Save Civilian Lives in War? The Case of the United Nations Aid in Myanmar's Civil War," in Shin-wha Lee and Jagannath Panda (eds.), The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula: An Emerging Security Architecture (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023) (co-authored).
"Scaling-Up Dynamics in KOICA's Peace-Development Nexus Projects in the Mekong Region Cases of Lao PDR and Cambodia," UNRISD Working Paper 2022-06, December 2022 (co-authored).
"Relating History Education with National Identities on Modern State-Building: Korean and Chinese History Textbooks in Comparative Perspectives," Journal of International and Area Studies 29(2), 2022 (co-authored).
"Peace-Development Nexus of Development Cooperation for North Korea: The Double Dilemma of Aid Policies to North Korea," EAI Research Reviews, 22 August 2022. https://www.globalnk.org/note/view?cd=NOT000024&fbclid=IwAR0DJP-De55ZFZrs3CzgCckh1Cpjh7sIsWR78tTYMXL0TMRdcwnGj0rhmog
"The Embedded Conundrum of South-South and Triangular Cooperation: A Prologue to Shifting Frontiers from Collaboration to Contention," Asian Journal of Peacebuilding 10(1), 2022 (co-authored).
"A Way Forward to Achieve the SDGs in Korea: Reformulating an Enabling Environment for Sustainable Development," in Huck-Ju Kwon, Tatsufumi Yamagata, Eunju Kim, and Hisahiro Kondoh (eds.), International Development Cooperation of Japan and South Korea: New Strategies for an Uncertain World (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) (co-authored).
"Inspiring Democratic Progress in Development Assistance: South Korea’s Aid Policy Reforms via Civic Engagement," Forum for Development Studies 48(2), 2021 (co-authored).
"Synergistic Interactions between Social Policy and SSEs in Developing Countries: Interfaces in Discourse and Practice," in Euiyoung Kim and Miura Hiroki (eds.), Social Economy in Asia: Realities and Perspectives (New York: Lexington Books, 2021) (co-authored).
"History of Developmental State in South Korea," in Niki J. P. Alsford and Sojin Lim (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021).
"Bringing Drugs into Light: Embedded Governance and Opium Production in Myanmar," Oxford Development Studies 49(2), 2021 (co-authored).
"Enhancing Mixed Accountability for State-Society Synergy: South Korea's Responses to COVID-19 with Ambidexterity Governance," Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 21(4), 2020 (co-authored).
"South Korea's Prospects for a Middle-Power Alliance in the COVID-19 Era," Melbourne Asia Review, Edition 4, 2020 at https://melbourneasiareview.edu.au/south-koreas-prospects-for-a-middle-power-alliance-in-the-era-of-covid-19/
"From Humanitarian Relief to Democracy Aid: U.S. Foreign Assistance towards North Korea, 1996-2016," Pacific Focus 35(3), 2020 (co-authored).
"At the Nexus of National Strategies and Global Norms: North Korea's Preparation for the UN Sustainable Development Goals," EAI Global North Korea Commentary 37, July 2020.
"Transforming the Stunted UNESCO-Korea Development Partnership? The Case of UNESCO Bangkok’s Strategic Framework for the Korea Funds-in-Trust," Korean Social Science Journal 37(2), 2020 (co-authored).
"Strengthening Public-Private Partnership in Sri Lanka's Infrastructure Development Project: The Colombo Port Case," Asian International Studies Review 20(1), 2019 (co-authored).
"Tax Reform, Tax Compliance and State-Building in Tanzania and Uganda," Africa Development 43(2), 2018 (co-authored).
"Social Politics of Welfare Reform in Korea and Japan: A New Way of Mobilizing Power Resources," Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 30(2), 2019 (co-authored).
"Global Partnerships for Development and Risk Tendencies of Partners: A Theoretical Approach with the Case of Gavi," Asian International Studies Review 19(1), 2018 (co-authored).
"Synergistic Interactions between Social Policy and SSEs in Developing Countries: Interfaces in Discourse and Practice," Development and Society 47(2), 2018 (co-authored).
"On Global Accountability: A Theoretical Revisit to Accountability for Development Partnerships," Development and Society 46(2), 2017.
"South Korea's ODA Policies at a Crossroads: A New Political Opportunity for Institutional Reforms," EAI Issue Briefing, May 2017.
"Reconsidering Korea’s International Development Policies in the New Era of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: In Search of Transformative and Strategic Governance for Development Effectiveness," Journal of Contemporary Korean Studies 4(1), 2017.
"At the Nexus of Advocacy and Accountability: New Challenges and Strategies for Japanese Development NGOs," Pacific Focus 32(1), 2017 (co-authored).
"Forging 'Soft Accountability' in Unlikely Settings: A Conceptual Analysis of Mutual Accountability in the Context of South-South Cooperation," Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 23(2), 2017 (co-authored).
"South Korea’s Middle-Power Diplomacy on the Post-2015 Development Agenda," EAI Issue Briefing, 13 Oct 2015.
"Linking State Intervention and Health Equity Differently: The Universalization of Health Care in South Korea and Taiwan," Korea Observer 46(3), 2015 (co-authored).
"Post 2015 Development Goals (SDGs) and Transformative Social Policy," Oughtopia 30(1), 2015 (co-authored).
"Towards a Transformative Global Partnership for a Post-2015 Development Era," Issue Brief for the 2015 United Nations Development Cooperation Forum High-Level Symposium in Incheon, Republic of Korea (http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/newfunct/pdf15/dcfrok_global_partnership_issue_brief.pdf)
"Need to Enforce Mutual Accountability for Better Post-2015 Development Cooperation" at https://www.effectivecooperation.org/content/need-enforce-mutual-accountability-better-post-2015-development-co-operation
"Forging 'Soft' Accountability in Unlikely Settings: The Prospect of Mutual Accountability in South-South Cooperation," KOICA Working Paper No. 1, 2014.
"Learning through Localizing International Transfers: South Korea's Development Experiences," in Ilcheong Yi and Thandika Mkandawire (eds.), Learning from the South Korean Developmental Success: Effective Developmental Cooperation and Synergistic Institutions and Policies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
"Social Rights as a Global Public Good: Development, Human Rights and Accountability," Journal of International and Area Studies 20(2), 2013.
"Translating Foreign Aid Policy Locally: South Korea's Modernization Process Revisited," Asian Perspective 37(3), 2013.
"Strategizing Aid: U.S.-China Food Aid Relations to North Korea in the 1990s," International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 12(1), 2012.
"Mixed Governance and Welfare in South Korea," in Francis Fukuyama, Larry Diamond, and Marc Plattner (eds.), Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) (co-authored).
"Contradictions of Global Accountability: The World Bank, Development NGOs, and Global Social Governance," Journal of International and Area Studies 18(2), 2011.
"Poverty, Inequality and Democracy: 'Mixed Governance' and Welfare in South Korea," Journal of Democracy 22(3), 2011 (co-authored).
The Korean State and Social Policy: How South Korea Lifted Itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) (co-authored).
"Relating the State and Voluntary Agencies in Welfare Politics: A Social Construction Approach," Korean Journal of Sociology 44(6), 2010.
"The Welfare State as an Institutional Process," Social Science Journal 47(3), 2010.
"The Welfare State as 'Shadow Regulator' in Korea After the Economic Crisis: An Interpretation from the Viewpoint of the Voluntary Sector," WIAS Research Bulletin 2, 2010.
"External-Internal Nexus for the Sources of Insecurity in the Third World," International Area Studies Review 12(2), 2009.
"The Social Construction of Welfare Control: A Sociological Review on State-Voluntary Sector Links in Korea," International Sociology 23(6), 2008.
"Variants of Corporatist Governance: Differences in the Korean and Japanese Approaches in Dealing with Labor," Yale Journal of International Affairs 3(1), 2008.
"Varieties of Welfare Control: A Historical Review on the Changing Contours of the State-Voluntary Relations in the Korean Welfare Context," Barnett Papers in Social Research, No. 2, University of Oxford, 2006.
"Security Reconsidered: An Eclectic Approach between Traditional and Human Security," Flinders Journal of History and Politics, 2002.
In Korean:
"글로벌 위기의 현실주의적 관성에 대한 세계체제론적 해부: 백승욱, 『연결된 위기: 우크라이나 전쟁에서 한반도 핵위기까지, 얄타체제의 해부는 무엇을 의미하는가』 (서울: 생각의 힘, 2023)," 『경제와 사회』 제142호, 2024.
"글로벌 사우스의 부상과 한국의 대아프리카 외교," 『외교』 제149호, 2024.
"글로벌 사우스의 도전과 대응: 남아프리카공화국의 인식과 전략," 『국제문제연구소 이슈브리프』 제215호, 2024.
"평화 패러독스를 넘어서: 전략적 평화와 연계의 복합화," 『통일평화연구원 지식과 비평(IPUS HORIZON)』 제18호, 2024.
In Chinese:
Works in Progress:
International Development
Peace Studies
Global Governance
International Political Sociology
Global South
South-South and Triangular Cooperation
Sustainable Development and Sustaining Peace
Global South Studies
Global Social Governance
Understanding International Development Cooperation
Understanding International Human Rights and Refugee Issues
Understanding International Cooperation
Social and Political Thoughts on International Development
International Organizations
Letter of Appreciation for the Excellent Contribution to the Independent Evaluation Panel, by the Korea International Cooperation Agency, April 2024
2023 Excellence in Research Award, Seoul National University (서울대학교 학술연구상)
GSIS Book Publication Award for Fall 2023
Research Grant for Japanese Studies 2023, Institute for Japanese Studies, Seoul National University
National Research Foundation (NRF) fund for the research monography publication, NRF 2023-2025
Letter of Appreciation for the Excellent Contribution to the Global Korea Forum, by the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences, January 2021
Letter of Appreciation for the Excellent Chairmanship of the Independent Evaluation Panel, by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), July 2020
『한국 비판국제개발론: 국제開發의 發展적 성찰』 (Critical International Development Studies on Korea) selected as the 2020 Excellent Books of Basic Sciences, by the National Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education (대한민국 학술원 우수학술도서)
『대항적 공존: 글로벌 책무성의 아시아적 재생산』 (Oppositional Coexistence: The Asiatic Reproduction of Global Accountability) selected as the 2019 Excellent Books of Basic Sciences, by the National Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education (대한민국 학술원 우수학술도서)
GSIS Book Publication Award for Spring 2019
National Research Foundation (NRF) fund for the research monography publication, NRF 2018-2020
GSIS Best Teaching Award for Spring 2017
Fulbright Mid-Career Research Fellowship, 2017-2018
National Research Foundation (NRF) fund for best papers, NRF 2011
National Research Foundation (NRF) fund for young scholars, NRF 2012
JSPS Research Fellowship, 2008-2010
SAIS USKI Fellowship, 2006-2008
Fulbright Scholarship, 2004-2006
Stahl Fund from St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, 2003
John Swire Centennial Fellowship, 2000-2004
The Best Graduation Student of the Year Award, Seoul National University, 1998
The Sangbaek Prize (Top GPA Graduation Student), Dept of Sociology, Seoul National University, 1998