Ji-Young Lee is an Associate Professor of International Relations at American University’s School of International Service, where she is the C. W. Lim and Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies and the Founding Director of the SIS Korea in Global Affairs Initiative.
Her research explores three interlinked themes:
- Historical International Relations
- U.S. Alliances in Asia and Regional Security
- China-Korea and Japan-Korea Relations
She is the author of China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination (Columbia University Press, 2016).
Her second book, The Great Power Next Door: The Past and Present of Chinese Military Intervention in the Korean Peninsula, is under contract with Columbia University Press and currently under review.
She previously taught at Oberlin College as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. Outside academia, she served as the Korea Policy Chair and a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, and was a Nonresident Fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research.
She received her Ph.D. from Georgetown University.
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