Dong Jung Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dong Jung Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dong Jung |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale-NUS College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2395-4208 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How Clients Evade Patrons’ Costly Strategic Demands
How do U.S. security clients cope with the United States’ strategic demands to take actions that conflict with their political or economic interests? Much of the literature on intra-alliance politics explains clients’ decisions to accept or reject their patron’s demands. This article theorizes demand evasion as an option for a U.S. security client confronted with costly strategic requests from its patron. Demand evasion occurs when the client avo…
US Protectionism and Competition with China
A Twenty Years’ Crisis? Rethinking the Cases for U.S. Economic Engagement with China
Structural realists accuse U.S. economic engagement with China as a mistake driven by liberal idealism and lack of realism. I suggest that this increasingly popular narrative reflecting the traditional idealism-realism distinction is misplaced. First, liberal approaches to international relations can clash with each other when a democratic state engages with an authoritarian state, and engagement is justified by one strand of liberalism—economic …
Avoiding the Geoeconomic Domino Theory
Compound Containment: A Reigning Power's Military-Economic Countermeasures Against a Challenging Power
A Case for Geoeconomic Restraint: Offensive Realism and the Inflated Threat of Chinese Economic Initiatives
Many analysts and practitioners argue that the United States should actively engage in geoeconomic competition with China. This article suggests that an argument against this claim can be counter-intuitively derived from offensive realism – an influential international relations theory known for its pessimism on great power relations. Offensive realism suggests that a great power should try to maximize its material capacity and pay careful attent…
Making Geoeconomics an IR Research Program
In contrast to growing public attention to geoeconomics as the new mode of conducting great power competition, the IR discipline has not actively engaged in conceptual and theoretical analysis from the geoeconomic viewpoint. This article examines issues that geoeconomics needs to solve to become a new theoretical framework in the positivist “American” IR scholarship that dominates research on great power competition. On the one hand, the concept …
The Perils of Geoeconomics
10.1080/0163660X.2019.1593666
A Prologue to Manifest Destiny: Why Britain Allowed the United States’ Unchallenged Rise in North America, 1836–1848
THE ABSENCE OF BRITAIN’s MILITARY countermeasures against an expanding United States in the mid-nineteenth century poses an important puzzle for theorists of great power politics. It is widely argued that a leading great power of the international system has a profound interest in thwarting the ascendance of a dominant state in a major region of the world.1 Such a rising state—often referred to as a potential regional hegemon—not only destabilize…
Economic containment as a strategy of Great Power competition
Economic containment has garnered repeated attention in the discourse about the United States' response to China. Yet, the attributes of economic containment as a distinct strategy of Great Power competition remain unclear. Moreover, the conditions under which a leading power can employ economic containment against a challenging power remain theoretically unelaborated. This article first suggests that economic containment refers to the use of eco…
Economic Deterrence Through Economic Engagement
Unfaithful allies? US security clients in China-led international institutions
This article examines a US security client’s decision to support an international institution led by a challenger to its patron’s leadership position in the international system. Two factors together shape the client’s decision: (i) the nature of the institution led by the challenger and (ii) the position of the client in the regional security environment. I argue that a challenger-led institution that aims to complement rather than compete with …
Realists as free traders: The Struggle for Power and the Case Against Protectionism
This article suggests that a powerful defence for open trade can be derived from offensive realism. Offensive realists posit that a state tries to maximize its relative material power in order to protect its security in the dangerous international realm. I argue that with regard to trade, relative power maximizing states have strong incentives to maintain free trade. Mainstream trade theories commonly suggest that an important mechanism through w…
Trading with the enemy? The futility of US commercial countermeasures against the Chinese challenge
This paper examines whether the US is in a position to adopt restrictive commercial measures against China in order to complement military balancing. It focuses on the necessary condition for serious economic measures against an adversary: the state needs to be sure that it can effectively diminish the adversary's economic performance more than its own. This essay suggests that Washington cannot ascertain that this necessary condition is met in i…
Choosing the Right Sidekick: Economic Complements to US Military Grand Strategies
Scholars and practitioners of grand strategy agree that the use of military force should be supplemented by appropriate economic policies. However, strangely few accounts of economic complements to military grand strategies have been presented in recent discourse on US grand strategy. This paper takes a first step to fill this information gap. I first assess the role that could be played by economic measures under two types of grand strategies – …
The Perils of Geoeconomics
10.1080/0163660X.2019.1593666
A Twenty Years’ Crisis? Rethinking the Cases for U.S. Economic Engagement with China
Structural realists accuse U.S. economic engagement with China as a mistake driven by liberal idealism and lack of realism. I suggest that this increasingly popular narrative reflecting the traditional idealism-realism distinction is misplaced. First, liberal approaches to international relations can clash with each other when a democratic state engages with an authoritarian state, and engagement is justified by one strand of liberalism—economic …
Realists as free traders: The Struggle for Power and the Case Against Protectionism
This article suggests that a powerful defence for open trade can be derived from offensive realism. Offensive realists posit that a state tries to maximize its relative material power in order to protect its security in the dangerous international realm. I argue that with regard to trade, relative power maximizing states have strong incentives to maintain free trade. Mainstream trade theories commonly suggest that an important mechanism through w…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How Clients Evade Patrons’ Costly Strategic Demands
How do U.S. security clients cope with the United States’ strategic demands to take actions that conflict with their political or economic interests? Much of the literature on intra-alliance politics explains clients’ decisions to accept or reject their patron’s demands. This article theorizes demand evasion as an option for a U.S. security client confronted with costly strategic requests from its patron. Demand evasion occurs when the client avo…
A Case for Geoeconomic Restraint: Offensive Realism and the Inflated Threat of Chinese Economic Initiatives
Many analysts and practitioners argue that the United States should actively engage in geoeconomic competition with China. This article suggests that an argument against this claim can be counter-intuitively derived from offensive realism – an influential international relations theory known for its pessimism on great power relations. Offensive realism suggests that a great power should try to maximize its material capacity and pay careful attent…
Making Geoeconomics an IR Research Program
In contrast to growing public attention to geoeconomics as the new mode of conducting great power competition, the IR discipline has not actively engaged in conceptual and theoretical analysis from the geoeconomic viewpoint. This article examines issues that geoeconomics needs to solve to become a new theoretical framework in the positivist “American” IR scholarship that dominates research on great power competition. On the one hand, the concept …
Economic containment as a strategy of Great Power competition
Economic containment has garnered repeated attention in the discourse about the United States' response to China. Yet, the attributes of economic containment as a distinct strategy of Great Power competition remain unclear. Moreover, the conditions under which a leading power can employ economic containment against a challenging power remain theoretically unelaborated. This article first suggests that economic containment refers to the use of eco…
Trading with the enemy? The futility of US commercial countermeasures against the Chinese challenge
This paper examines whether the US is in a position to adopt restrictive commercial measures against China in order to complement military balancing. It focuses on the necessary condition for serious economic measures against an adversary: the state needs to be sure that it can effectively diminish the adversary's economic performance more than its own. This essay suggests that Washington cannot ascertain that this necessary condition is met in i…
Choosing the Right Sidekick: Economic Complements to US Military Grand Strategies
Scholars and practitioners of grand strategy agree that the use of military force should be supplemented by appropriate economic policies. However, strangely few accounts of economic complements to military grand strategies have been presented in recent discourse on US grand strategy. This paper takes a first step to fill this information gap. I first assess the role that could be played by economic measures under two types of grand strategies – …
Trading with the enemy? The futility of US commercial countermeasures against the Chinese challenge
This paper examines whether the US is in a position to adopt restrictive commercial measures against China in order to complement military balancing. It focuses on the necessary condition for serious economic measures against an adversary: the state needs to be sure that it can effectively diminish the adversary's economic performance more than its own. This essay suggests that Washington cannot ascertain that this necessary condition is met in i…
Choosing the Right Sidekick: Economic Complements to US Military Grand Strategies
Scholars and practitioners of grand strategy agree that the use of military force should be supplemented by appropriate economic policies. However, strangely few accounts of economic complements to military grand strategies have been presented in recent discourse on US grand strategy. This paper takes a first step to fill this information gap. I first assess the role that could be played by economic measures under two types of grand strategies – …
Economic Deterrence Through Economic Engagement
Unfaithful allies? US security clients in China-led international institutions
This article examines a US security client’s decision to support an international institution led by a challenger to its patron’s leadership position in the international system. Two factors together shape the client’s decision: (i) the nature of the institution led by the challenger and (ii) the position of the client in the regional security environment. I argue that a challenger-led institution that aims to complement rather than compete with …
Realists as free traders: The Struggle for Power and the Case Against Protectionism
This article suggests that a powerful defence for open trade can be derived from offensive realism. Offensive realists posit that a state tries to maximize its relative material power in order to protect its security in the dangerous international realm. I argue that with regard to trade, relative power maximizing states have strong incentives to maintain free trade. Mainstream trade theories commonly suggest that an important mechanism through w…
The Perils of Geoeconomics
10.1080/0163660X.2019.1593666
A Prologue to Manifest Destiny: Why Britain Allowed the United States’ Unchallenged Rise in North America, 1836–1848
THE ABSENCE OF BRITAIN’s MILITARY countermeasures against an expanding United States in the mid-nineteenth century poses an important puzzle for theorists of great power politics. It is widely argued that a leading great power of the international system has a profound interest in thwarting the ascendance of a dominant state in a major region of the world.1 Such a rising state—often referred to as a potential regional hegemon—not only destabilize…
Economic containment as a strategy of Great Power competition
Economic containment has garnered repeated attention in the discourse about the United States' response to China. Yet, the attributes of economic containment as a distinct strategy of Great Power competition remain unclear. Moreover, the conditions under which a leading power can employ economic containment against a challenging power remain theoretically unelaborated. This article first suggests that economic containment refers to the use of eco…
Making Geoeconomics an IR Research Program
In contrast to growing public attention to geoeconomics as the new mode of conducting great power competition, the IR discipline has not actively engaged in conceptual and theoretical analysis from the geoeconomic viewpoint. This article examines issues that geoeconomics needs to solve to become a new theoretical framework in the positivist “American” IR scholarship that dominates research on great power competition. On the one hand, the concept …
A Case for Geoeconomic Restraint: Offensive Realism and the Inflated Threat of Chinese Economic Initiatives
Many analysts and practitioners argue that the United States should actively engage in geoeconomic competition with China. This article suggests that an argument against this claim can be counter-intuitively derived from offensive realism – an influential international relations theory known for its pessimism on great power relations. Offensive realism suggests that a great power should try to maximize its material capacity and pay careful attent…
Avoiding the Geoeconomic Domino Theory
Compound Containment: A Reigning Power's Military-Economic Countermeasures Against a Challenging Power
A Twenty Years’ Crisis? Rethinking the Cases for U.S. Economic Engagement with China
Structural realists accuse U.S. economic engagement with China as a mistake driven by liberal idealism and lack of realism. I suggest that this increasingly popular narrative reflecting the traditional idealism-realism distinction is misplaced. First, liberal approaches to international relations can clash with each other when a democratic state engages with an authoritarian state, and engagement is justified by one strand of liberalism—economic …
US Protectionism and Competition with China
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How Clients Evade Patrons’ Costly Strategic Demands
How do U.S. security clients cope with the United States’ strategic demands to take actions that conflict with their political or economic interests? Much of the literature on intra-alliance politics explains clients’ decisions to accept or reject their patron’s demands. This article theorizes demand evasion as an option for a U.S. security client confronted with costly strategic requests from its patron. Demand evasion occurs when the client avo…
Political science (13 works) · China (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (8 works) · Law (8 works) · International trade (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Politics (5 works) · Business (4 works)