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Sung-Yoon Lee

Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Politics

Education

BA, New College
MALD and PhD, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Professional Activities

Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School (1998-2005); Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Tufts University (2000-2005); Kim Koo Research Associate (2005-2006), and Associate in Research (1999-present), Korea Institute, Harvard University; Visiting Professor of Korean Studies, Sogang University (Summer, 2007); Adjunct Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Bowdoin College (Spring, 2000).

Courses

Fall 2009

• DHP H270 The United States and Northeast Asia
• DHP P274 The Politics of the Korean Peninsula: Foreign and Inter-Korean Relations

Spring 2010

• DHP D271 The United States and East Asia: 1945 to the Present
• DHP P275 Seminar on North Korean State and Society

Research Interests

The Korean peninsula; the Asia-Pacific; political philosophy; democracy; Confucianism

Selected Publications

• “Ain’t No Sunshine,” Foreign Policy, August 24, 2009.
• “Target Pyongyang’s Palace Economy,” The Far Eastern Economic Review, July 20, 2009.
• “Pyongyang Home Truths: Does Hillary Clinton understand the North Korean regime and how to deal with it?” Wall Street Journal Asia, February 13, 2009.
• “The Folly of Fabled Sentimentality: South Korea’s Unorthodox Courtship of North Korea,” The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Special Report, November, 2006.
• “Dependence and Defiance: Historical Dilemmas in U.S.-Korea Relations,” Korea Policy Review, The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Summer 2006