The Role of South Korea in the Making of a Regional Trade Architecture: Convening, Bridging, and Designing FTA Networks

EAI MPDI Working Paper No. 8

Author

Yul Sohn is Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Before joining at Yonsei, Sohn taught at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, and was a visiting scholar at institutions in the University of Tokyo, Waseda University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, Sohn serves a number of government advisory committees including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Korea National Diplomacy Academy, and the Northeast Asian History Foundation. He also has served President of the Korean Studies of Contemporary Japan. Sohn has written extensively on Japanese and East Asian political economy, East Asian regionalism, and global governance. His most recent publications include “Attracting the Neighbors” Soft Power Competition in East Asia,” “Securitizing Trade: The Case of U.S.-Korea FTA,” and “Japan’s New Regionalism: China Threat, Universal Values, and the East Asian Community.” Sohn received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA.

This working paper will be included in an upcoming EAI publication set to be released in Spring 2016 entitled "Transforming Global Governance with Middle Power Diplomacy: South Korea's Role in the 21st Century." Please check in soon for the latest publication updates.