Firstly, yes, I am the ‘BBC Dad‘ – the guy who got interrupted on BBC News by his kids in March 2017. Here is the video of that event; here and here are our family statements about it.
Otherwise, I am a professor of international relations in the Political Science and Diplomacy Department of Pusan National University in Busan, South Korea.
PhD, 2005:
- Political Science
- International Relations
- international security
- international organization
- Political Theory
- International Relations
- Ohio State University
Fellowships:
- Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies’ Teachers Workshop (Johns Hopkins)
- US-Korea NextGen Scholars Program (CSIS, USC, Korea Foundation)
- Summer Workshop on Military Operations & Strategy (Columbia)
- Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (Syracuse, APSA)
- Anti-Terrorism Academic Fellow (Foundation for the Defense of Democracies)
- Summer Workshop on Teaching about Terrorism (U. of Oklahoma, DHS)
Popular Publication Outlets:
Social Media:
Talks & Television Appearances:
- Presentations (I like this one)
- TV news appearances
My best topical & regional areas are:
- US Foreign Policy
- International Relations Theory
- East Asia
- Korea
- International Monetary Fund
- World Bank
In Busan, I teach US foreign policy, Globalization, Post-9/11 Security, basic IR theory, International Organization, and US politics.
My language training includes: German, French, Russian, Latin, Korean, classical Greek
I lived in Europe for 4 years. I have lived in Korea since summer 2008. I have traveled to about 40 different countries, including North Korea (impressions on that trip here and here).
My wife teaches yoga; we have a daughter and a son. My father is an excellent historian. My mother is a high school English teacher.
What else? In my other life, I would have been a screenwiter, a musician, or a classicist. I enjoy film a lot and write about it infrequently here. I also enjoy classical music very much (Austro-Germans mostly), and I read a lot of course. I find antiquity so fascinating that I took two extra years of grad school just to study Greek and Latin. Reading “Socrates’ Apology” in the original is one of the great achievements of my life. I run but am slow.
Thanks for coming to my site. I hope you like it.
Congratulations, I just saw the photos of the children much bigger, beautiful family !
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