DongJoon PARK

Research Fellow, Jeju Peace Institute

Dr. DongJoon Park is a Research Fellow at the Jeju Peace Institute (JPI). He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the department of Government at Georgetown University in 2020, and his research focuses on the role of reputations in international relations, alliance politics, and, more broadly, the impact of perceptions on crisis decision-making. His previous roles/positions include, POSCO Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center (2023), Research Professor at the Peace and Democracy Institute (PDI) at Korea University (2023), Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Security and Conflict Studies (ISCS) at George Washington University (2020-2021), and James A. Kelly Korea Research Fellow in residence at Pacific Forum (2011-2012).

Activities

Working Group

"Indo-Pacific Security" International Study Group

Single Author

Partial Contribution

DongJoon Park and Kyungjoon Jeon, “Improving State Reputation through the UN: The Case of North Korea,” in Shin-wha Lee, Jagannath Panda eds, The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula: An Emerging Security Architecture (Routledge, 2023)

Papers

DongJoon Park, “The Defensive Surge: Psychological Reasons for Why Leaders Double Down on Failing Wars,” The Korean Journal of Security Affairs 27, no. 1 (June, 2022)

DongJoon Park, “When Dogs Wag their Tails: How Great Powers Patrons Manage their Belligerent Client Allies under Uncertainty,” Journal of Peace and Unification 11, no. 3 (2021), pp. 5-26.

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