Jie-Hyun Lim interviewed by @ginsengamericano.bsky.social about his book, 'Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age', for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
"AI is not corrupting our tastes but revealing they were already predisposed to corruption. LLMs have exposed a vast pre-existing cultural appetite for false profundity, and gave everyone a machine that can produce it on demand."
The sentencing trial for Yoon Suk-yeol will begin in 10 minutes.
On November 19th, Professor @jeffreyding.bsky.social from The George Washington University received the prestigious Lepgold Book Prize at the Mortara Center. This award recognizes the best book in international relations published in 2024.
Photo credit: @georgetown-sfs.bsky.social
Japanโs new prime minister faces big foreign policy challenges.
Can Sanae Takaichi keep Washington close โ and navigate regional threats?
William & Mary's @eunajo.bsky.social discusses here: goodauthority.org/news/sanae-t...
What a delight to attend @kbclarke.bsky.socialโs book launch at the fully packed @mortaracenter.bsky.social tonight! Such thought-provoking and insightful scholarship and engaging discussion @laiabalcells.bsky.social
We have a new article in @cpsjournal.bsky.social theorizing founding leader personality cult emergence in Vietnam, China and Indonesia. It'll be part of a special issue "Imagining Nations" w/ @eunajo.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, @jiyoungko.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
U.S. political scientists, are any of your depts *not* admitting new PhD students this year (esp. for international applicants)?
I'm gathering info to help students know where to reconsider applying. Applications are not cheap and they're despairing. Appreciate any details.
So happy to see this out! We caution against excessive optimism that the opposition will restore countries back to their democratic trajectories after electoral victory. Weakened institutions and the memory of repression makes it tempting to continue rather than buck the trend of autocratization.
In my latest for @goodauth.bsky.social, I write about why boundary-keeping is just as important as developing inclusive narratives for democracy
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More information about my new book which will be published by the Cambridge University Press on 11 December:
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This work was made possible by support and patient critique from many, many people. All errors are of course mine (and my regrets, in particular, for the oversight in using pinyin romanization for Kuomintang; nothing was meant by it).
I find that storytelling elites in South Korea and Taiwan challenged the narrative orthodoxy of oneness to varying degrees during democratization. Their revisionism mattered greatly for how the two nations would come to pursueโor abandonโunification as a national objective.
I look to their democratic struggles, and how โstorytelling elitesโ sought to re-narrate nationhood. I think of storytelling elites as those with the institutional and rhetorical resources to contest the official narrativeโe.g., dissident intellectuals, historians, civil society leaders, and so on.
The paper explores how regime-building (who rules and how) shapes and is shaped by nation-building (who belongs). Why have โOne Koreaโ narratives become entrenched in South Korea, and โOne Chinaโ narratives dislodged in Taiwan since their modern founding?
This paper explores how democratization can reconstitute understandings of nationhood by empowering a new class of โstorytelling elitesโ---those with the institutional and rhetorical resources to challenge the stateโs narrative. In this critical juncture, storytelling elites may challenge (1) the bottom-line premise or (2) the sideline elements of the prevailing national narrative. Their narrative strategies, in turn, shape how the terms of the debates are redefined and structured under democracy. I develop this argument through a comparison of โOne Koreaโ and โOne Chinaโ narratives in postwar South Korea and Taiwan. Using interpretive process tracing of archival and other qualitative data, I find that democracy helped entrench โOne Koreaโ narratives in South Korea but displace โOne Chinaโ narratives in Taiwan, as new storytelling elites challenged dominant narratives of โonenessโ to varying degrees. This resulted in increasingly divergent support for unification as a national objective, with enduring implications for peace.
Iโm happy to share this paper in @cpsjournal.bsky.social on democracy and national narratives, with insights from South Korea and Taiwan. It is part of a special issue on postcolonial narratives with @paulschuler.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, + others.
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cover of book "The Art of Status" by Jelena Subotic
So over the next few days I want to tell you a little bit about my new @oxfordacademic.bsky.social book about looted art. The book is about art so there are many great pictures! A very short, mini-thread ๐
Deadline (7/25) is approaching. If you're interested in a year-long (but w/ light commitment) experience of talking about politics of Korea in a safe online community, this is a great opportunity. While priority is given to junior scholars, ANYONE is encouraged to apply.
We live in an era of democratic backsliding. But the terminology of "backsliding" isn't up to the task of making sense of the deep crisis of liberal democracy around the world. I've just finished a working paper that lays out what I think is going on.
tl;dr it's about the state and society
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With LDP's defeat today (and a sharper turn to the right in Japan's domestic politics), trade negotiations are about to get even more complicated. Some thoughts on @goodauth.bsky.social about what Trump's tariffs might mean for Japan and South Korea:
goodauthority.org/news/trumps-...
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IR Theory Colloquium (IRTC)
2025-2026
Call for applications / Due July 31
IRTC is a monthly, 90-minute Zoom workshop for early career researchers, aimed at improving theoretical arguments and expanding the IR Theory community.
More info below:
Deadline is now July 25th! @textvulture.bsky.social @jennargibson.bsky.social @edwardgoldring.bsky.social
Deadline is today! If youโve got a paper on Korea, consider applying to the fourth cohort of the Korean Political Studies Colloquium (KPSC): textvulture.github.io/presentation...
The @duckofminerva.bsky.social is a International Relations blog with a focus on theory, teaching, and research. I founded it in 2005. It quickly grew to become a cooperative endeavor. It's gone from multiple pieces a day to maybe an article every 2 weeks. But it's still alive and publishing.
Book cover of Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest by Jennifer Jihye Chun and Ju Hui Judy Han
In South Korea, protest is a ubiquitous and essential form of political expression. Against Abandonment is at once a chronicle of the life-and-death character of protesting precarity in South Korea and a searing examination of repertoires of solidarity for upending injustice
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I made an explorer for some data I OCRd on Chinese organization work and management to '97, largely drawn fromใๅ
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Might be of interest to the Chinese political science crowd, sinologists interested in the state / party, etc.
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Panel 2: The Next Generation: The Future of Trilateral Cooperation
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Screenshot of a exit poll analysis from South Korea's snap election, showing majority support for progressive candidate among women and majority support for conservative candidate among men.
Gender polarization in SK in one pic.
Blue is progressive. Red is conservative. Orange is splinter-conservative.
