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2008-09 PASS Speaker Series -- 2.
KWON MANHAK
Professor of International Relations, Kyung Hee University
"Korean Reunification and North Korea Policy"
Breedlove Room
Perkins Libray (West Campus)
Friday, October 31, 2008, 3:30-5:00 pm
KWON Manhak is a professor of international relations at Kyung Hee University, South Korea and currently a visiting scholar at University of Pennsylvania teaching South Korean Politics. His research interests center on Korean Political Economy, Inter-Korean Relations, and East Asian Regional Politics. His recent publications include Dialectics of Korean Division and Reunification, "Pathways from State Socialism and North Korea," "Negotiation or Confrontation: the Future of Inter-Korean Relations," and "East Asia and U.S. in Politics and Security." He served as Dean of the College of Management and International Relations, Kyung Hee University, a Vice President of the Korean Association of International Studies and Korean Political Association, and a member of the Presidential Commission for Policy Planning, Government Policy Evaluation Committee, and Nominating Committee for National Assembly Candidates, Open Uri Party. Until recently, he was a member of the Advisory Council, Korea Economic Institute of America, Washington, D.C. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government, University of Texas-Austin, and a B.A. in Political Science, Seoul National University.