J Byun
Biographic Data
| ID | 28312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Byun |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Byun |
| SIGNATURE | BYUN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5792-9369 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb – Addendum
Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reshaped international politics and the field of International Relations. But one question—“ How should the atomic bomb be used?”—has been largely overlooked in political science. This article recovers American deliberations on alternative nuclear use options before August 1945, including the “noncombat demonstration,” targeting military installations, giving advance warning, and striking more symboli…
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South
How can governments in racially divided societies protect vulnerable populations from political violence after large-scale internal conflict? When the dominant majority is bent on perpetuating its power and privileges in the racial hierarchy, benevolence by government interveners is unlikely to curb oppressive violence against subordinate groups. There is thus no alternative to using military coercion to crush insurgents and their civilian suppor…
The Burden-Sharing Dilemma
Thank You to Reviewers
Under No Circumstances? What the Chinese Really Think about the Wartime Use of Nuclear Weapons
The idea of using nuclear weapons to kill noncombatants is said to evoke strong moral opprobrium among millions of individuals across the globe, such that national leaders should be constrained from using the weapons even when such a decision would be strategically sensible. Classical area scholarship and recent survey evidence suggest that this “nuclear taboo” is strong among the Chinese public, buttressed by culturally grounded preferences for …
Remember Kabul? Reputation, strategic contexts, and American credibility after the Afghanistan withdrawal
We examine how a great power's past behavior toward an informal security partner affects the broader credibility of its security commitments, focusing on the implications of America's dramatic troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 as perceived by the U.S., South Korean, and Chinese publics. Against conventional wisdom, we show that knowledge about a great power's decision to abandon an informal partner in one region of the globe can help incr…
More than a Number
How does leader age affect international politics? Challenging the existing literature's focus on chronological age, we argue that leaders do not age the same in the eyes of their beholders. Combining insights from gerontology on age-related stereotypes and studies of face-to-face diplomacy, we show that judgments about age informed by high-level personal encounters have profound consequences for how elderly leaders are appraised and treated by t…
Punishment and Politicization in the International Human Rights Regime
Conventional wisdom treats politicization in the international human rights regime as invariant: for any given violation, states condemn adversaries while coddling friends. However, we find that politicization patterns vary markedly across human rights issues. Some norms are more politicized than others, and states are more likely to punish geopolitical partners on certain violations. We offer a novel theory of politicized enforcement wherein sta…
Regional security cooperation against hegemonic threats
Why do some regional powers collectively threatened by a potential hegemon eagerly cooperate to ensure their security, while others appear reluctant to do so? I argue that robust security cooperation at the regional level is less likely when an unbalanced distribution of power exists between the prospective security partners. In such situations, regional security cooperation tends to be stunted by foot-dragging and obstructionism on the part of m…
The Case Against Nuclear Sharing in East Asia
The Geopolitical Consequences of Covid-19
THE ERA OF COVID-19 suggests that America's self-confidence as a global power is at an all-time low.In the months following the acceleration of the pandemic in March 2020, mainstream political discourse was flooded with observations that the United States was one of the worst-hit countries in the world in terms of confirmed cases and deaths, 1 that its institutions were JOSHUA BYUN is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science at th…
Punishment and Politicization in the International Human Rights Regime
Conventional wisdom treats politicization in the international human rights regime as invariant: for any given violation, states condemn adversaries while coddling friends. However, we find that politicization patterns vary markedly across human rights issues. Some norms are more politicized than others, and states are more likely to punish geopolitical partners on certain violations. We offer a novel theory of politicized enforcement wherein sta…
Remember Kabul? Reputation, strategic contexts, and American credibility after the Afghanistan withdrawal
We examine how a great power's past behavior toward an informal security partner affects the broader credibility of its security commitments, focusing on the implications of America's dramatic troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 as perceived by the U.S., South Korean, and Chinese publics. Against conventional wisdom, we show that knowledge about a great power's decision to abandon an informal partner in one region of the globe can help incr…
Under No Circumstances? What the Chinese Really Think about the Wartime Use of Nuclear Weapons
The idea of using nuclear weapons to kill noncombatants is said to evoke strong moral opprobrium among millions of individuals across the globe, such that national leaders should be constrained from using the weapons even when such a decision would be strategically sensible. Classical area scholarship and recent survey evidence suggest that this “nuclear taboo” is strong among the Chinese public, buttressed by culturally grounded preferences for …
More than a Number
How does leader age affect international politics? Challenging the existing literature's focus on chronological age, we argue that leaders do not age the same in the eyes of their beholders. Combining insights from gerontology on age-related stereotypes and studies of face-to-face diplomacy, we show that judgments about age informed by high-level personal encounters have profound consequences for how elderly leaders are appraised and treated by t…
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South
How can governments in racially divided societies protect vulnerable populations from political violence after large-scale internal conflict? When the dominant majority is bent on perpetuating its power and privileges in the racial hierarchy, benevolence by government interveners is unlikely to curb oppressive violence against subordinate groups. There is thus no alternative to using military coercion to crush insurgents and their civilian suppor…
The Geopolitical Consequences of Covid-19
THE ERA OF COVID-19 suggests that America's self-confidence as a global power is at an all-time low.In the months following the acceleration of the pandemic in March 2020, mainstream political discourse was flooded with observations that the United States was one of the worst-hit countries in the world in terms of confirmed cases and deaths, 1 that its institutions were JOSHUA BYUN is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science at th…
Regional security cooperation against hegemonic threats
Why do some regional powers collectively threatened by a potential hegemon eagerly cooperate to ensure their security, while others appear reluctant to do so? I argue that robust security cooperation at the regional level is less likely when an unbalanced distribution of power exists between the prospective security partners. In such situations, regional security cooperation tends to be stunted by foot-dragging and obstructionism on the part of m…
The Case Against Nuclear Sharing in East Asia
The Geopolitical Consequences of Covid-19
THE ERA OF COVID-19 suggests that America's self-confidence as a global power is at an all-time low.In the months following the acceleration of the pandemic in March 2020, mainstream political discourse was flooded with observations that the United States was one of the worst-hit countries in the world in terms of confirmed cases and deaths, 1 that its institutions were JOSHUA BYUN is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science at th…
More than a Number
How does leader age affect international politics? Challenging the existing literature's focus on chronological age, we argue that leaders do not age the same in the eyes of their beholders. Combining insights from gerontology on age-related stereotypes and studies of face-to-face diplomacy, we show that judgments about age informed by high-level personal encounters have profound consequences for how elderly leaders are appraised and treated by t…
Punishment and Politicization in the International Human Rights Regime
Conventional wisdom treats politicization in the international human rights regime as invariant: for any given violation, states condemn adversaries while coddling friends. However, we find that politicization patterns vary markedly across human rights issues. Some norms are more politicized than others, and states are more likely to punish geopolitical partners on certain violations. We offer a novel theory of politicized enforcement wherein sta…
Remember Kabul? Reputation, strategic contexts, and American credibility after the Afghanistan withdrawal
We examine how a great power's past behavior toward an informal security partner affects the broader credibility of its security commitments, focusing on the implications of America's dramatic troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 as perceived by the U.S., South Korean, and Chinese publics. Against conventional wisdom, we show that knowledge about a great power's decision to abandon an informal partner in one region of the globe can help incr…
The Burden-Sharing Dilemma
Thank You to Reviewers
Under No Circumstances? What the Chinese Really Think about the Wartime Use of Nuclear Weapons
The idea of using nuclear weapons to kill noncombatants is said to evoke strong moral opprobrium among millions of individuals across the globe, such that national leaders should be constrained from using the weapons even when such a decision would be strategically sensible. Classical area scholarship and recent survey evidence suggest that this “nuclear taboo” is strong among the Chinese public, buttressed by culturally grounded preferences for …
Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb – Addendum
Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reshaped international politics and the field of International Relations. But one question—“ How should the atomic bomb be used?”—has been largely overlooked in political science. This article recovers American deliberations on alternative nuclear use options before August 1945, including the “noncombat demonstration,” targeting military installations, giving advance warning, and striking more symboli…
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South
How can governments in racially divided societies protect vulnerable populations from political violence after large-scale internal conflict? When the dominant majority is bent on perpetuating its power and privileges in the racial hierarchy, benevolence by government interveners is unlikely to curb oppressive violence against subordinate groups. There is thus no alternative to using military coercion to crush insurgents and their civilian suppor…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Power (physics (4 works) · Alliance (3 works)