Andrew Yeo
Biographic Data
| ID | 275346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Yeo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeo |
| SIGNATURE | YEO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of America |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1347-7599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Socializing states into a rules-based international order: Converging narratives between South Korea and the EU
To what extent do South Korean narratives of global order converge or diverge with views from the European Union? Although the threat of communist North Korea during the Cold War led South Korean leaders to perpetuate illiberal practices at home, the country’s rapid economic development in the 1970s and democratic transition in the 1980s incentivized South Korean policymakers to turn toward multilateral institutions, economic openness, and libera…
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: Divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe
Why and how do pathways to regime complexes diverge? Building on insights from the literatures on institutional design and historical institutionalism, we argue that early institutional design choices produce long-term variation in the pace, density, and composition of institutional layers within a regime complex. In a first step, we argue that if an institution becomes focal, this increases the exit costs for member-states to leave. Additional i…
Democratic Ceilings: The Long Shadow of Nationalist Polarization in East Asia
East Asian democracies, long seen as the success stories of the Third Wave, have curiously co-existed with illiberal partisan competition. We argue that such patterns are symptoms of long-standing democratic stagnation, rather than democratic regress. We trace the entrenchment of illiberal competition to nationalist polarization in the early phase of democratization—a common phenomenon in Third Wave democracies where nation-building and democrati…
Markets and the Development of Social Trust in the Everyday Politics of North Korea: Chinese Entrepreneurs’ Perspectives
Can South Korea Trust the United States
A relational approach to Indo‐Pacific strategies: South Korea's role in a networked regional architecture
How do regional actors perceive South Korea's role in the Indo‐Pacific? Using South Korea as a reference point, this introductory paper to the Special Issue adopts the analogy of “network structures” to examine how the network of Indo‐Pacific relations shapes actors' perceptions and interactions with other states in the region. South Korea's relationship with other actors in the Indo‐Pacific is not just a function of bilateral relations. It is in…
National Identity and the Limits of Chinese Public Diplomacy in the Philippines
Despite a rise in Chinese public diplomacy efforts in the Philippines, Filipino perceptions of China have mainly remained negative during the Duterte period. This article examines why and how China’s public diplomacy efforts have primarily failed despite President Duterte’s pro-China position. It draws on constructivist approaches to demonstrate how national identity mediates the impact of Chinese influence. In particular, Chinese incursions in t…
State, Society and Markets in North Korea
Under Kim Jong-un, North Korea has experienced growing economic markets, an emerging 'nouveau riche,' and modest levels of urban development. To what extent is North Korean politics and society changing? How has the growth of markets transformed state-society relations? This Element evaluates the shifting relationship between state, society, and markets in a deeply authoritarian context. If the regime implements controlled economic measures, extr…
Bases of empire? The logic of overseas U.S. military base expansion, 1870–2016
Was the expansion of overseas U.S. bases from the late nineteenth century to the present driven by imperial impulses or strategic principles? Recent scholarship reflects a diverse set of perspectives on the history and politics of overseas U.S. military bases. To evaluate existing claims about the evolution and logic of overseas U.S. bases, we establish a conceptual framework for understanding an “empire of bases” based on motivational and relati…
Philippine National Independence, 1898–1904
Drawing on arguments found in international relations theory, this chapter explores Philippine nationalist resistance against imperial occupation in the late nineteenth century leading up to the Philippine–American War at the turn of the twentieth century. In particular, the chapter explores the transnational diffusion of liberal ideas among Philippine revolutionaries developed during the period of Spanish colonial rule. In hopes of securing thei…
Assessing Domestic Change and Continuity in North Korea
To what extent is change taking place within North Korea? Have market forces altered the relationship between state and society? How might the flow of information from the outside world challenge the regime’s legitimacy and authoritarian rule? Questions pertaining to domestic change and continuity in North Korean politics have persisted since the end of the Cold War and the death of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung, in 1994. This essay draws on…
Has South Korean democracy hit a glass ceiling? Institutional‐cultural factors and limits to democratic progress
This article critically examines the state of South Korea’s consolidated democracy in the post‐2016 Candlelight period. More specifically, I identify a “glass ceiling” in raising the quality of South Korean democracy, drawing attention to institutional‐cultural factors as an underlying barrier for further democratic progress. Political culture reinforces existing institutional design flaws such as a strong executive and a weak political party sys…
China’s rising assertiveness and the decline in the East Asian regionalism narrative
After a decade of vibrant scholarly and political discourse regarding the prospects of East Asian integration, the narrative of regionalism has lost its luster in favor of a darker regional narrative. Has the idea of East Asian regionalism come to pass, and if so, what explains the decline in the narrative of Asian regionalism both as a policy idea and as a research program? After providing empirical evidence tracking the rise and decline in scho…
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Domestic Hurdles to a Grand Strategy of Restraint
In July 2019, the Council on Foreign Relations invited candidates challenging President Donald Trump in the 2020 election to articulate their position on twelve questions critical to US foreign pol
North Korean Human Rights: Activists and Networks
The evidentiary weight of North Korean defectors' testimony depicting crimes against humanity has drawn considerable attention from the international community in recent years. Despite the attention to North Korean human rights, what remains unexamined is the rise of the transnational advocacy network, which drew attention to the issue in the first place. Andrew Yeo and Danielle Chubb explore the 'hard case' that is North Korea and challenge exis…
Human rights, nuclear security and the question of engagement with North Korea
What a difference a year makes. Throughout 2017 –Trump’s first year in office –we witnessed\n rising tensions between North Korea and the United States. North Korea continued to test\n ballistic missiles throughout the year, and conducted its largest nuclear test to date. The\n year progressed with a fiery exchange between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong\n Un. Trump promised to rain ‘fire and fury’ down on North Korea, deriding Kim as ‘roc…
Realism, critical theory, and the politics of peace and security: Lessons from anti-base protests on Jeju Island
Drawing on insights from International Relations and social movement theories, I explore anti-base protests on Jeju Island and the ensuing politics of peace. I find that the clash between activists and policymakers is fundamentally tied to different views regarding the legitimacy of state actions on security policy and whether actors see states or people as the primary object of security. These real-world differences are mirrored in realist and c…
The Politics of Overseas Military Bases
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Overlapping regionalism in East Asia: Determinants and potential effects
Once considered severely under-institutionalized, East Asia has experienced a rapid process of institution-building since the end of the Cold War resulting in a significant degree of organizational overlap, both in membership and mandate. This paper examines the drivers and potential effects of institutional overlap in East Asia. It argues that the informal nature of Asian institutions coupled with competing visions of regionalism among member st…
Business as usual: The role of norms in alliance management
How do allies successfully manage their alliance partnership in times of political crisis? We argue that the procedural norm of political contestation and the substantive norm of security consensus set the parameters for non-detrimental disagreement among democratic alliance partners. Rather than interpreting sharp disagreements with the US as signs of soft-balancing or alliance decline, we explain the seeming contradictions in alliance behavior …
Alleviating Misery: The Politics of North Korean Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy
IntroductionNorth Koreans suffer from human rights abuses at the hands of the Kim regime. Despite consensus regarding the serious nature of abuses, addressing (much less resolving) these issues has proven to be difficult. Complicating matters further, the problem of North Korean human rights is embedded in the context of perpetual nuclear and humanitarian crises. This has stimulated ethical debates and much soul-searching among policymakers, aid …
Books by Our Readers
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Challenging US Military Presence in the Philippines
This essay examines antibase movements in the Philippines, giving attention to the development, organization, and role of antibase movements leading to the ouster of US military forces in 1991. Additionally, I discuss how the return of the US military in the late 1990s under a visiting forces agreement rekindled mobilization efforts, albeit more weakly than during the early 1990s, against US military presence. Although no permanent US base exists…
Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests
Anti-U.S. base protests, played out in parliaments and the streets of host nations, continue to arise in different parts of the world. In a novel approach, this book examines the impact of anti-base movements and the important role bilateral alliance relationships play in shaping movement outcomes. The author explains not only when and how anti-base movements matter, but also how host governments balance between domestic and international pressur…
Not in Anyone’s Backyard: The Emergence and Identity of a Transnational Anti-Base Network
Providing an overview of the emergence, characteristics, trajectory, and potential limitations of the transnational anti-base network, this article focuses on two broad questions relevant to transnational politics. First, what processes and mechanisms enabled local and transnational activists to form the international No Bases network? Second, how did activists juxtapose existing local anti-base identity and frames to emerging transnational ones?…
Democratic Ceilings: The Long Shadow of Nationalist Polarization in East Asia
East Asian democracies, long seen as the success stories of the Third Wave, have curiously co-existed with illiberal partisan competition. We argue that such patterns are symptoms of long-standing democratic stagnation, rather than democratic regress. We trace the entrenchment of illiberal competition to nationalist polarization in the early phase of democratization—a common phenomenon in Third Wave democracies where nation-building and democrati…
A relational approach to Indo‐Pacific strategies: South Korea's role in a networked regional architecture
How do regional actors perceive South Korea's role in the Indo‐Pacific? Using South Korea as a reference point, this introductory paper to the Special Issue adopts the analogy of “network structures” to examine how the network of Indo‐Pacific relations shapes actors' perceptions and interactions with other states in the region. South Korea's relationship with other actors in the Indo‐Pacific is not just a function of bilateral relations. It is in…
The Politics of Overseas Military Bases
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China’s rising assertiveness and the decline in the East Asian regionalism narrative
After a decade of vibrant scholarly and political discourse regarding the prospects of East Asian integration, the narrative of regionalism has lost its luster in favor of a darker regional narrative. Has the idea of East Asian regionalism come to pass, and if so, what explains the decline in the narrative of Asian regionalism both as a policy idea and as a research program? After providing empirical evidence tracking the rise and decline in scho…
Overlapping regionalism in East Asia: Determinants and potential effects
Once considered severely under-institutionalized, East Asia has experienced a rapid process of institution-building since the end of the Cold War resulting in a significant degree of organizational overlap, both in membership and mandate. This paper examines the drivers and potential effects of institutional overlap in East Asia. It argues that the informal nature of Asian institutions coupled with competing visions of regionalism among member st…
National Identity and the Limits of Chinese Public Diplomacy in the Philippines
Despite a rise in Chinese public diplomacy efforts in the Philippines, Filipino perceptions of China have mainly remained negative during the Duterte period. This article examines why and how China’s public diplomacy efforts have primarily failed despite President Duterte’s pro-China position. It draws on constructivist approaches to demonstrate how national identity mediates the impact of Chinese influence. In particular, Chinese incursions in t…
Assessing Domestic Change and Continuity in North Korea
To what extent is change taking place within North Korea? Have market forces altered the relationship between state and society? How might the flow of information from the outside world challenge the regime’s legitimacy and authoritarian rule? Questions pertaining to domestic change and continuity in North Korean politics have persisted since the end of the Cold War and the death of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung, in 1994. This essay draws on…
Realism, critical theory, and the politics of peace and security: Lessons from anti-base protests on Jeju Island
Drawing on insights from International Relations and social movement theories, I explore anti-base protests on Jeju Island and the ensuing politics of peace. I find that the clash between activists and policymakers is fundamentally tied to different views regarding the legitimacy of state actions on security policy and whether actors see states or people as the primary object of security. These real-world differences are mirrored in realist and c…
Business as usual: The role of norms in alliance management
How do allies successfully manage their alliance partnership in times of political crisis? We argue that the procedural norm of political contestation and the substantive norm of security consensus set the parameters for non-detrimental disagreement among democratic alliance partners. Rather than interpreting sharp disagreements with the US as signs of soft-balancing or alliance decline, we explain the seeming contradictions in alliance behavior …
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: Divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe
Why and how do pathways to regime complexes diverge? Building on insights from the literatures on institutional design and historical institutionalism, we argue that early institutional design choices produce long-term variation in the pace, density, and composition of institutional layers within a regime complex. In a first step, we argue that if an institution becomes focal, this increases the exit costs for member-states to leave. Additional i…
Bases of empire? The logic of overseas U.S. military base expansion, 1870–2016
Was the expansion of overseas U.S. bases from the late nineteenth century to the present driven by imperial impulses or strategic principles? Recent scholarship reflects a diverse set of perspectives on the history and politics of overseas U.S. military bases. To evaluate existing claims about the evolution and logic of overseas U.S. bases, we establish a conceptual framework for understanding an “empire of bases” based on motivational and relati…
Has South Korean democracy hit a glass ceiling? Institutional‐cultural factors and limits to democratic progress
This article critically examines the state of South Korea’s consolidated democracy in the post‐2016 Candlelight period. More specifically, I identify a “glass ceiling” in raising the quality of South Korean democracy, drawing attention to institutional‐cultural factors as an underlying barrier for further democratic progress. Political culture reinforces existing institutional design flaws such as a strong executive and a weak political party sys…
U.S. Military Base Realignment in South Korea
Although Donald Rumsfeld, the much maligned Secretary of Defense of the Bush years, has faded from public scrutiny, his two major legacies—the Iraq War and U.S. overseas military realignment—contin
Markets and the Development of Social Trust in the Everyday Politics of North Korea: Chinese Entrepreneurs’ Perspectives
Ideas and Institutions in Contentious Politics: Anti-U.S. Base Movements in Ecuador and Italy
Signaling Democracy: Patron-Client Relations and Democratization in South Korea and Poland
Facing massive protests, why did incumbent regimes in both South Korea and Poland repress movements for democratization in the early 1980s but make democratic concessions to the opposition in the late 1980s? I demonstrate how the United States and the Soviet Union as superpower patron states influenced democratic transitions in South Korea and Poland. The different outcomes across time are partially attributed to superpower policies toward their …
Signaling Democracy: Patron-Client Relations and Democratization in South Korea and Poland
Facing massive protests, why did incumbent regimes in both South Korea and Poland repress movements for democratization in the early 1980s but make democratic concessions to the opposition in the late 1980s? I demonstrate how the United States and the Soviet Union as superpower patron states influenced democratic transitions in South Korea and Poland. The different outcomes across time are partially attributed to superpower policies toward their …
Not in Anyone’s Backyard: The Emergence and Identity of a Transnational Anti-Base Network
Providing an overview of the emergence, characteristics, trajectory, and potential limitations of the transnational anti-base network, this article focuses on two broad questions relevant to transnational politics. First, what processes and mechanisms enabled local and transnational activists to form the international No Bases network? Second, how did activists juxtapose existing local anti-base identity and frames to emerging transnational ones?…
U.S. Military Base Realignment in South Korea
Although Donald Rumsfeld, the much maligned Secretary of Defense of the Bush years, has faded from public scrutiny, his two major legacies—the Iraq War and U.S. overseas military realignment—contin
Ideas and Institutions in Contentious Politics: Anti-U.S. Base Movements in Ecuador and Italy
Anti-Base Movements in South Korea: Comparative Perspective on the Asia-Pacific
Much recent discussion on anti-base opposition in the Asia-Pacific has focused on island-wide protests against the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma. By uniting in mass demonstrations against the construction of a new U.S. base, and by staging a multi-year round the clock demonstration at the proposed site of the new base, Okinawans put pressure squarely on Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to keep his campaign pledge to move Fute…
Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests
Anti-U.S. base protests, played out in parliaments and the streets of host nations, continue to arise in different parts of the world. In a novel approach, this book examines the impact of anti-base movements and the important role bilateral alliance relationships play in shaping movement outcomes. The author explains not only when and how anti-base movements matter, but also how host governments balance between domestic and international pressur…
Back to the Future: Korean Anti-Base Resistance from Jeju Island to Pyeongtaek
Anti-base movements are once again rising in South Korea, this time on the southern coast of Jeju Island. With the Jeju anti-base moving growing, it may be worthwhile to take stock of past anti-base movements in South Korea. Keeping the Jeju anti-base protest in mind, this article takes us back to the Pyeongtaek antibase movement episode from 2005-07 with an in-depth look at resistance against the expansion of Camp Humphreys from local residents …
Books by Our Readers
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Challenging US Military Presence in the Philippines
This essay examines antibase movements in the Philippines, giving attention to the development, organization, and role of antibase movements leading to the ouster of US military forces in 1991. Additionally, I discuss how the return of the US military in the late 1990s under a visiting forces agreement rekindled mobilization efforts, albeit more weakly than during the early 1990s, against US military presence. Although no permanent US base exists…
Alleviating Misery: The Politics of North Korean Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy
IntroductionNorth Koreans suffer from human rights abuses at the hands of the Kim regime. Despite consensus regarding the serious nature of abuses, addressing (much less resolving) these issues has proven to be difficult. Complicating matters further, the problem of North Korean human rights is embedded in the context of perpetual nuclear and humanitarian crises. This has stimulated ethical debates and much soul-searching among policymakers, aid …
Business as usual: The role of norms in alliance management
How do allies successfully manage their alliance partnership in times of political crisis? We argue that the procedural norm of political contestation and the substantive norm of security consensus set the parameters for non-detrimental disagreement among democratic alliance partners. Rather than interpreting sharp disagreements with the US as signs of soft-balancing or alliance decline, we explain the seeming contradictions in alliance behavior …
Overlapping regionalism in East Asia: Determinants and potential effects
Once considered severely under-institutionalized, East Asia has experienced a rapid process of institution-building since the end of the Cold War resulting in a significant degree of organizational overlap, both in membership and mandate. This paper examines the drivers and potential effects of institutional overlap in East Asia. It argues that the informal nature of Asian institutions coupled with competing visions of regionalism among member st…
Realism, critical theory, and the politics of peace and security: Lessons from anti-base protests on Jeju Island
Drawing on insights from International Relations and social movement theories, I explore anti-base protests on Jeju Island and the ensuing politics of peace. I find that the clash between activists and policymakers is fundamentally tied to different views regarding the legitimacy of state actions on security policy and whether actors see states or people as the primary object of security. These real-world differences are mirrored in realist and c…
The Politics of Overseas Military Bases
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
North Korean Human Rights: Activists and Networks
The evidentiary weight of North Korean defectors' testimony depicting crimes against humanity has drawn considerable attention from the international community in recent years. Despite the attention to North Korean human rights, what remains unexamined is the rise of the transnational advocacy network, which drew attention to the issue in the first place. Andrew Yeo and Danielle Chubb explore the 'hard case' that is North Korea and challenge exis…
Human rights, nuclear security and the question of engagement with North Korea
What a difference a year makes. Throughout 2017 –Trump’s first year in office –we witnessed\n rising tensions between North Korea and the United States. North Korea continued to test\n ballistic missiles throughout the year, and conducted its largest nuclear test to date. The\n year progressed with a fiery exchange between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong\n Un. Trump promised to rain ‘fire and fury’ down on North Korea, deriding Kim as ‘roc…
China’s rising assertiveness and the decline in the East Asian regionalism narrative
After a decade of vibrant scholarly and political discourse regarding the prospects of East Asian integration, the narrative of regionalism has lost its luster in favor of a darker regional narrative. Has the idea of East Asian regionalism come to pass, and if so, what explains the decline in the narrative of Asian regionalism both as a policy idea and as a research program? After providing empirical evidence tracking the rise and decline in scho…
Books by Our Readers
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Domestic Hurdles to a Grand Strategy of Restraint
In July 2019, the Council on Foreign Relations invited candidates challenging President Donald Trump in the 2020 election to articulate their position on twelve questions critical to US foreign pol
Philippine National Independence, 1898–1904
Drawing on arguments found in international relations theory, this chapter explores Philippine nationalist resistance against imperial occupation in the late nineteenth century leading up to the Philippine–American War at the turn of the twentieth century. In particular, the chapter explores the transnational diffusion of liberal ideas among Philippine revolutionaries developed during the period of Spanish colonial rule. In hopes of securing thei…
Assessing Domestic Change and Continuity in North Korea
To what extent is change taking place within North Korea? Have market forces altered the relationship between state and society? How might the flow of information from the outside world challenge the regime’s legitimacy and authoritarian rule? Questions pertaining to domestic change and continuity in North Korean politics have persisted since the end of the Cold War and the death of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung, in 1994. This essay draws on…
Has South Korean democracy hit a glass ceiling? Institutional‐cultural factors and limits to democratic progress
This article critically examines the state of South Korea’s consolidated democracy in the post‐2016 Candlelight period. More specifically, I identify a “glass ceiling” in raising the quality of South Korean democracy, drawing attention to institutional‐cultural factors as an underlying barrier for further democratic progress. Political culture reinforces existing institutional design flaws such as a strong executive and a weak political party sys…
State, Society and Markets in North Korea
Under Kim Jong-un, North Korea has experienced growing economic markets, an emerging 'nouveau riche,' and modest levels of urban development. To what extent is North Korean politics and society changing? How has the growth of markets transformed state-society relations? This Element evaluates the shifting relationship between state, society, and markets in a deeply authoritarian context. If the regime implements controlled economic measures, extr…
Bases of empire? The logic of overseas U.S. military base expansion, 1870–2016
Was the expansion of overseas U.S. bases from the late nineteenth century to the present driven by imperial impulses or strategic principles? Recent scholarship reflects a diverse set of perspectives on the history and politics of overseas U.S. military bases. To evaluate existing claims about the evolution and logic of overseas U.S. bases, we establish a conceptual framework for understanding an “empire of bases” based on motivational and relati…
National Identity and the Limits of Chinese Public Diplomacy in the Philippines
Despite a rise in Chinese public diplomacy efforts in the Philippines, Filipino perceptions of China have mainly remained negative during the Duterte period. This article examines why and how China’s public diplomacy efforts have primarily failed despite President Duterte’s pro-China position. It draws on constructivist approaches to demonstrate how national identity mediates the impact of Chinese influence. In particular, Chinese incursions in t…
Political science (26 works) · Law (20 works) · Politics (20 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political economy (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (14 works) · Law (14 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (11 works) · Development economics (8 works)