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Professor Chaibong Hahm
Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
"South Korea's Conservative Turn & US-Korea Relations"
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January 31, 2008, Thursday
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library, Duke UniversityChaibong HAHM is a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, CA. He received a B.A. in economics from Carleton College (1980) and a Ph.D. in political science from the Johns Hopkins University (1992). From 1992 to 2005, Dr. Hahm was a professor in the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. From 2003 to 2005, he served as the Director (D-1) of the Division of Social Sciences Research & Policy at UNESCO in Paris, France. From 2005-2007 he was a Professor in the School of International Relations and the Department of Political Science as well as the Director of Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California (USC). He is the author of numerous books and articles (in both English and Korean) on Korean and East Asian politics, governance, and culture, including, "The Two South Koreas: A House Divided"( The Washington Quarterly), "Ironies of Confucianism" (Journal of Democracy), and Confucianism for the Modern World (co-edited w/ Daniel A. Bell, Cambridge University Press, 2003). He has been a visiting professor at Duke, Georgetown, and Princeton Universities and a visiting fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington, DC.