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S3 Ep 1: Feedback in Action: South Korea, Technology, and COVID-19 Responses
In this episode, we speak with Dr. June Park – NRC East Asia Voice Initiative Fellow and political economic specializing in trade, energy, and tech, about South Korea’ governance tools in managing the COVID-19 pandemic, lessons learned from crisis management in the past, and how COVID-19 is influencing global technology trends.
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Dr. June Park is a political economist working on trade, energy, and tech conflicts with a broader range of regional focuses not just on the U.S. and East Asia, but also Europe and the Middle East. She also conducts policy-oriented research on the two Koreas. She is currently an East Asia Voices Initiative (EAVI) Fellow of the East Asia National Resource Center at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, and a Next Generation Researcher at the National Research Foundation of Korea.
Her grand theme of research is why countries fight and how, using what. She studies why countries have different policy outcomes by analyzing governance structures – domestic institutions, leaderships, and bureaucracies that shape the policy formation process.
S3 Ep 3: Collaboration, Representation, and Leadership: Women in Chinese Congress
Despite holding a disproportionately small number of seats in the National People’s Congress of China, female legislators are comparatively more productive than male counterparts in sponsoring legislative bills and building coalitions. To explore the topic of female participation in Chinese politics, we talk with Dr. Yue Hou, the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, on her forthcoming co-authored article, “Underrepresented Outperformers: Female Legislators in the Chinese Congress.”
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Yue Hou is the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences in the department of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her substantive research interests include authoritarian institutions, business–state relations, the political economy of development, and ethnic politics, with a regional focus on China.Her book The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China(October 2019, Cambridge University Press) examines strategies Chinese private entrepreneurs use to protect property from expropriation.In 2015–16, shewas a postdoctoral fellow at Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China. Shereceived herPhD in Political Science from MIT and herBA in Economics and Mathematics from Grinnell College.
S3 Ep 2: Caught in the Middle: US-China-Taiwan Triangular Relations
US-China-Taiwan triangular relations represent a particularly complicated set of historical and policy issues, and endure as critical dynamic in East Asia today. To unpack this set of relations and explore the future of US-China-Taiwan ties, we talk with Dr. Hung-jen Wang, Associate Professor of Political Science and current NRC scholar.
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Hung-jen Wang is an Associate Professor of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Hung-jen currently teaches courses such as “Methodology in Political Science,” “Asian Security,” “Chinese Foreign Policy,” “European governments and politics,” and “American government and politics”. He received PhD in International Politics from ERCCT/Political Science department at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research interests focus mainly on Post-/Non-Western IR theory, Chinese foreign policy, and the cross-Taiwan Strait relations. Wang is the author of the book, The Rise of China and Chinese International Relations (IR) Scholarship (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013), and co-author of China and International Theory: The Balance of Relationships (Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019). He also published the journal articles, including “Chinese IR Scholarship as a Relational Epistemology in the Study of China’s Rise”, in The China Quarterly (April 2020); “China’s Assertive Relational Strategies: Engagement, Boycotting, Reciprocation and Press,” in Issues & Studies (September 2018); and “Traditional Empire-Modern State Hybridity: Chinese Tianxia and Westphalian Anarchy”, in Global Constitutionalism, (July 2017) and so on. Hung-jen also has the chapters entitled ‘Subjective Knowledge Foundation of the Cross-Taiwan Straits International Peace Discourse,’ in Bart Dessein ed., Interpreting China as a Regional and Global Power (Palgrave 2014), and ‘How Chinese IR Scholars are Addressing Asia’s Current Power Transition,’ in David Walton and Emilian Kavalski eds., Power Transition in Asia (Routledge 2016). Hung-jen can be reached at hjwang@mail.ncku.edu.tw
