Minseon Ku
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minseon Ku |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minseon |
| FAMILY NAME | Ku |
| SIGNATURE | KU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2398-4175 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The emotional politics of sovereignty
Violations of sovereignty not only generate emotional diplomatic outbursts but are also frequently the subject of multilateral engagements. One paradigmatic example of a sovereignty violation engendering this kind of response is that of state-led international kidnappings. But why do the victims of sovereignty violations multilateralise such transgressions? What makes them think that other states will be receptive to such attempts? To answer this…
High-Level Leader Visits
Once deemed a “nearly impossible” area of study, high-level leader visits—one of the most visible and consequential practices in global politics—have recently attracted renewed scholarly attention. This resurgence stems from the growing recognition of leader visits as a valuable lens for addressing foundational questions in international relations, including why states act as they do, the consequences of their actions, and how their behavior shap…
The digital reproduction of the state
How do states engage in strategic ontology via digital diplomacy? Existing arguments about digital diplomacy focus on everyday practices, overlooking its ontological implications through reproducing states for lay people, whose use of social media forms part of their knowledge discourse about world politics. The author argues that states employ digital diplomacy to engage in strategic ontology to manage narratives about themselves. Such a strateg…
Summitry as the social international
International Relations (IR) scholarship reduces summitry as a site for leaders’ agency. This paper treats summitry as a social practice of states, and contributes to our understanding of it by arguing that summitry is a performance producing the audience and what I call the “social international” or world politics as a social space in which states act like people with social relations. The audience emerges with a summitry performance and vicario…
Routines die hard
How can we understand the audience agency and securitisation processes that can induce anxiety? The Copenhagen School of security studies conceptualises an audience as possessing political agency which is contingent on their capabilities to respond to securitising moves. Drawing on Anthony Giddens’s approach to ontological security, we argue that there is another type of agency supplementing political agency. Ontological agency refers to exercisi…
Summit Diplomacy as Theatre of Sovereignty Contestation
The recent revival in the interest in summitry in International Relations scholarship conceptualises it as an elite-centred or foreign policy-focused process targeting foreign governments and publics. This article makes a theoretical intervention on the effects of summitry by foregrounding publics as audiences of international politics who can exercise agency. Because summits are primarily elite-staged performances of Westphalian principles of st…
The Dark Matter of World Politics
International relations theory has had a trust revival, with scholars focusing on how trust can enhance interpersonal cooperation attempts between leaders. We propose there is another type of trust at play in world politics. International system trust is a feeling of confidence in the international social order, which is indexed especially by trust in its central unit, state persons. System trust anchors ontological security, and its presence is …
The Dark Matter of World Politics
International relations theory has had a trust revival, with scholars focusing on how trust can enhance interpersonal cooperation attempts between leaders. We propose there is another type of trust at play in world politics. International system trust is a feeling of confidence in the international social order, which is indexed especially by trust in its central unit, state persons. System trust anchors ontological security, and its presence is …
Summit Diplomacy as Theatre of Sovereignty Contestation
The recent revival in the interest in summitry in International Relations scholarship conceptualises it as an elite-centred or foreign policy-focused process targeting foreign governments and publics. This article makes a theoretical intervention on the effects of summitry by foregrounding publics as audiences of international politics who can exercise agency. Because summits are primarily elite-staged performances of Westphalian principles of st…
High-Level Leader Visits
Once deemed a “nearly impossible” area of study, high-level leader visits—one of the most visible and consequential practices in global politics—have recently attracted renewed scholarly attention. This resurgence stems from the growing recognition of leader visits as a valuable lens for addressing foundational questions in international relations, including why states act as they do, the consequences of their actions, and how their behavior shap…
Summitry as the social international
International Relations (IR) scholarship reduces summitry as a site for leaders’ agency. This paper treats summitry as a social practice of states, and contributes to our understanding of it by arguing that summitry is a performance producing the audience and what I call the “social international” or world politics as a social space in which states act like people with social relations. The audience emerges with a summitry performance and vicario…
Summit Diplomacy as Theatre of Sovereignty Contestation
The recent revival in the interest in summitry in International Relations scholarship conceptualises it as an elite-centred or foreign policy-focused process targeting foreign governments and publics. This article makes a theoretical intervention on the effects of summitry by foregrounding publics as audiences of international politics who can exercise agency. Because summits are primarily elite-staged performances of Westphalian principles of st…
The Dark Matter of World Politics
International relations theory has had a trust revival, with scholars focusing on how trust can enhance interpersonal cooperation attempts between leaders. We propose there is another type of trust at play in world politics. International system trust is a feeling of confidence in the international social order, which is indexed especially by trust in its central unit, state persons. System trust anchors ontological security, and its presence is …
Routines die hard
How can we understand the audience agency and securitisation processes that can induce anxiety? The Copenhagen School of security studies conceptualises an audience as possessing political agency which is contingent on their capabilities to respond to securitising moves. Drawing on Anthony Giddens’s approach to ontological security, we argue that there is another type of agency supplementing political agency. Ontological agency refers to exercisi…
High-Level Leader Visits
Once deemed a “nearly impossible” area of study, high-level leader visits—one of the most visible and consequential practices in global politics—have recently attracted renewed scholarly attention. This resurgence stems from the growing recognition of leader visits as a valuable lens for addressing foundational questions in international relations, including why states act as they do, the consequences of their actions, and how their behavior shap…
The digital reproduction of the state
How do states engage in strategic ontology via digital diplomacy? Existing arguments about digital diplomacy focus on everyday practices, overlooking its ontological implications through reproducing states for lay people, whose use of social media forms part of their knowledge discourse about world politics. The author argues that states employ digital diplomacy to engage in strategic ontology to manage narratives about themselves. Such a strateg…
Summitry as the social international
International Relations (IR) scholarship reduces summitry as a site for leaders’ agency. This paper treats summitry as a social practice of states, and contributes to our understanding of it by arguing that summitry is a performance producing the audience and what I call the “social international” or world politics as a social space in which states act like people with social relations. The audience emerges with a summitry performance and vicario…
The emotional politics of sovereignty
Violations of sovereignty not only generate emotional diplomatic outbursts but are also frequently the subject of multilateral engagements. One paradigmatic example of a sovereignty violation engendering this kind of response is that of state-led international kidnappings. But why do the victims of sovereignty violations multilateralise such transgressions? What makes them think that other states will be receptive to such attempts? To answer this…
Political science (6 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Diplomacy (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)