THE KOREA SOCIETY

Dr. Ji-Young Lee is an Associate Professor of International Relations at American University's School of International Service, where she holds the C. W. Lim and Korea Foundation Professorship of Korean Studies. Trained as a political scientist, she has written on Asian historical international relations, regional security order and the US alliance network in East Asia, and South Korean foreign policy. She is the author of China's Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination (Columbia University Press, 2016). Her second book project, The Great Power Next Door (under contract with Columbia University Press), is a historically informed analysis of when and how China has chosen to militarily intervene in the Korean Peninsula. She has published articles in journals, including Security Studies, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, the Pacific Review, Australian Journal of International Affairs, and the Journal of East Asian Studies. Before joining AU, she taught at Oberlin College as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics and East Asian Studies. Outside academia, she has served as the inaugural Korea Policy Chair and a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation and was a non-resident James Kelly Korean Studies Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS. Dr. Lee holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Georgetown University, an M.A. from Seoul National University, and a B.A. from Ewha Womans University.