Dong Jung Kim is an Associate Professor in the College of International Studies and in the Graduate School of International Studies at Korea University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2015. Prior to joining Korea University, Dr. Kim was an Assistant Professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He also served as a pre-doctoral International Security Program research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.
His research interests include great power politics, balancing strategies, alliance politics, and the security-economy nexus in world politics. Dr. Kim's work on these topics has appeared in International Affairs, Geopolitics, Journal of Strategic Studies, Pacific Review, European Security, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Relations of the Asia Pacific, Political Science Quarterly, and Perspectives on Politics, among others. His monograph—Compound Containment: A Reigning Power's Military-Economic Responses to a Challenging Power (University of Michigan Press, 2022)—examines a leading great power's employment of multi-faceted containment measures in dealing with a rising power.
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Research Fellow, International Security Program
Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2014–2015