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David C. Kang

Political Science

#1614

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#1914

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#799

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Public Policy

#437

World Rank

#458

Historical Rank

#217

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Political Science

David C. Kang's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters International Relations University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Political Science Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, David Chan-oong Kang is a Korean American political scientist. Born to a family of the Sincheon Kang clan, he holds a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and International Politics from Stanford University from 1988 and a doctorate in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, 1995. Since 2009, Kang has been a professor of the University of Southern California, where he is a professor in both international politics and organization and management. He leads the Institute for Korean Studies at the same university. Kang has previously been a professor at Dartmouth College and guest professor at Stanford University, Yale University, Seoul National University, Korea University and Université de Genève.

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Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines (2002) (515)
Getting Asia Wrong: The Need for New Analytical Frameworks (2003) (436)
China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia (2007) (402)
East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (2010) (255)
Bad Loans to Good Friends: Money Politics and the Developmental State in South Korea (2002) (220)
Testing Balance-of-Power Theory in World History (2007) (132)
Transaction Costs and Crony Capitalism in East Asia (2002) (107)
Hierarchy, Balancing, and Empirical Puzzles in Asian International Relations (2004) (106)
Japanese colonialism and Korean development: A critique (1997) (96)
Hierarchy and Legitimacy in International Systems: The Tribute System in Early Modern East Asia (2010) (93)
Nuclear North Korea (2018) (85)
International Relations Theory and the Second Korean War (2003) (65)
Institutions and Growth in Korea and Taiwan: The Bureaucracy (1998) (61)
Between Balancing and Bandwagoning: South Korea's Response to China (2009) (58)
South Korean and Taiwanese development and the new institutional economics (1995) (56)
Why China's Rise Will Be Peaceful: Hierarchy and Stability in the East Asian Region (2005) (44)
Crony Capitalism: List of Tables (2002) (43)
Hierarchy in Asian International Relations: 1300-1900 (2005) (40)
The theoretical roots of hierarchy in international relations (2004) (29)
Rethinking North Korea (1995) (25)
The Debate over North Korea (2004) (24)
The Korea Crisis (2003) (17)
Preventive War and North Korea (1994) (16)
International Relations Theory and East Asian History: An Overview (2013) (16)
Power Transitions: Thucydides Didn’t Live in East Asia (2018) (16)
Status and Leadership on the Korean Peninsula (2010) (15)
American Grand Strategy and East Asian Security in the Twenty-First Century (2017) (15)
US Bias in the Study of Asian Security: Using Europe to Study Asia (2019) (14)
International Order in Historical East Asia: Tribute and Hierarchy Beyond Sinocentrism and Eurocentrism (2020) (13)
Measuring War in Early Modern East Asia, 1368–1841: Introducing Chinese and Korean Language Sources (2016) (13)
Civilization and state formation in the shadow of China (2009) (13)
Korea's Democratization: Regional Politics and Democratic Consolidation in Korea (2003) (12)
Engagement with North Korea : a viable alternative (2009) (12)
They Think They're Normal: Enduring Questions and New Research on North Korea—A Review Essay (2012) (12)
Institutions, economic policy and growth in the Republic of Korea and Taiwan Province of China (1996) (12)
Why was there no religious war in premodern East Asia? (2014) (11)
Stability and Hierarchy in East Asian International Relations, 1300–1900 CE (2007) (9)
Bad Loans to Good Friends: Money Politics and the Developmental State in Korea (2002) (8)
War, Rebellion, and Intervention under Hierarchy: Vietnam–China Relations, 1365 to 1841 (2019) (8)
The Avoidable Crisis in North Korea (2003) (8)
An East Asian international society today? The cultural dimension (2014) (8)
Japan: U.S. partner or focused on abductees? (2005) (8)
The Comedy of Errors? A Reply to Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni (2009) (7)
Hypotheses on Status Competition (2009) (6)
The North Korean Issue, Park Geun-hye’s Presidency, and the Possibility of Trust-building on the Korean Peninsula (2013) (5)
Dialogue about Elections in Japan and South Korea (2013) (5)
Soft Power and Leadership in East Asia (2013) (4)
Foreign Relations of North Korea: During Kim II Sung's Last Days . Edited by Doug Joong Kim. Seoul: Sejong Institute, 1994. 575 pp. (1995) (4)
State Formation in Korea and Japan, 400–800 CE: Emulation and Learning, Not Bellicist Competition (2021) (3)
The balance of power and state interests in international relations (2007) (3)
Authority and Legitimacy in International Relations: Evidence from Korean and Japanese Relations in Pre-Modern East Asia (2012) (3)
The Security of Northeast Asia (2009) (3)
South Korea's Not-So-Sharp Right Turn (2008) (3)
Profits of doom : transaction costs, rent-seeking, and development in South Korea and the Philippines (1995) (3)
The security of the Korean peninsula (2009) (2)
4. Response: Why Are We Afraid of Engagement? (2018) (2)
China's Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security . By Scott Snyder. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2009. 241p. $22.50. (2010) (2)
China’s Power in the Regional Context (I): Northeast Asia (2015) (2)
Inter-Korean Relations in the Absence of a U.S.-ROK Alliance (2008) (2)
“China Rising” and Its Implications for North Korea’s China Policy (2010) (2)
Political Business in East Asia . Edited by Edmund Terence Gomez. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. xvi, 346 pp. $30.95 (paper). (2003) (1)
South Korea, partisan politics, and the United States (2019) (1)
Securitizing Transnational Organized Crime and North Korea’s Non-Traditional Security (2013) (1)
East Asia when China was at the centre: the tribute system in early modern East Asia (2012) (1)
Rising Powers, Offshore Balancers, and Why the US-Korea Alliance is Undergoing Strain (2005) (1)
CONTEMPORARY ASIA IN THE WORLD (2015) (1)
Crony Capitalism: Acknowledgments (2002) (1)
Author's Response: Ideas and Power in East Asian International Relations (2011) (1)
THOUGHT GAMES ABOUT CHINA (2020) (1)
State Formation through Emulation (2022) (1)
Politicians and Economic Reform in New Democracies: Argentina and the Philippines in the 1990s (2004) (1)
The Role of the United States in the International Relations of East Asia: Still a Leader? (2012) (1)
China ’s rise: intentions, power and evidence (2009) (1)
“Trump’s First Year in Asia: Accelerating a Long-term Trend” (2018) (1)
Powerful Patron: America's Changing Relations with East Asia (2017) (0)
Crony Capitalism: DEMOCRACY IN THE 1980S AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 1997 (2002) (0)
The Seventy-Year History of North Korean Cultural Formation (2016) (0)
7. Is North Korea a Problem Not to Be Solved? (2018) (0)
Crony Capitalism: COMPARING KOREA AND THE PHILIPPINES (2002) (0)
Crony Capitalism: MUTUAL HOSTAGES IN KOREA (2002) (0)
East Asia when China was at the Centre (2011) (0)
Review article: East Asia and international relations theory (2013) (0)
Toward Measuring Free-Riding: Counterfactuals, Alliances, and US–Philippine Relations (2022) (0)
The United States and Northeast Asia: Debates, Issues, and New Order . Edited by G. John Ikenberry and Chung-in Moon. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xi, 345 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). (2010) (0)
Chapter 4: Securitizing Transnational Organized Crime and North Korea’s Non-Traditional Security (2017) (0)
Security in Northeast Asia: Time for New Architecture? (2009) (0)
North Korea: Going Down Swinging (2017) (0)
Hierarchy and anarchy in early modern East Asia (2017) (0)
Give a Little to Get a Lot from North Korea (2011) (0)
2. Threatening, but Deterrence Works (2018) (0)
South Korea: An Independent Grand Strategy (2017) (0)
introduction: the making of international relations (2016) (0)
Crony Capitalism: BANDWAGONING POLITICS IN THE PHILIPPINES (2002) (0)
Still Getting Asia Wrong: No “Contain China” Coalition Exists (2022) (0)
Bureaucracy, 1948-1979 (2005) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Comprehensive East Asian Security (2017) (0)
Index to International Security Volume 27 (Summer 2002-Spring 2003) (2003) (0)
China’s Rise: Counterproductive Fearmongering (2016) (0)
China, Hegemony, and Leadership in East Asia (2015) (0)
Asia’s Challenge to International Relations Theory (2003) (0)
No Arms Race: Military Expenditures in East Asia and Latin America (2017) (0)
A New President Aims to Change South Korea's Course (2017) (0)
Worse than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asiaby Thomas J. Christensen (2012) (0)
DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border. By Suk-young Kim. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 224 pp. $50.00 (cloth). (2015) (0)
China Reassures Asia: Rising Power, Offshore Balancers, and Hierarchy (2005) (0)
THE PUZZLE AND THE THEORY (2002) (0)
Crony Capitalism: CONCLUSION: CORRUPTION AND DEVELOPMENT (2002) (0)
The Next Battle for Hearts and Minds (2012) (0)
North Korea`s Quest for Economic and Military Security (2004) (0)
Market and Society in Korea: Interest, Institution and the Textile Industry. By Dennis McNamara. New York: Routledge, 2002. x + 254 pp. Index, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 0-415-27481-8. (2003) (0)
Korea’s Future and the Great Powers . Edited by Nicholas Eberstadt and Richard Ellings. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2001. 361 pp. (2003) (0)
Beyond Military Deterrence (2019) (0)
War, Rebellion, and Intervention under Hierarchy (2018) (0)
Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949, written by M. Taylor Fravel (2019) (0)
Comprehensive Security in Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, and Australia (2017) (0)
The Size of the Fight in the Dog: Costly Signals in International Bargaining (2017) (0)
5. Hyperbole Dominates: The 2003 Nuclear Crisis (2018) (0)
China's Search for Security. By Andrew Nathan and Andrew Scobell. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 432 pp. $32.95 (cloth). (2013) (0)
introduction: the making of international relations (2015) (0)
East Asian International Relations over the Longue Duree (2020) (0)
A Minimalist American Grand Strategy Toward Asia (2017) (0)
Introduction: The Debate Over North Korea (2018) (0)
Crony Capitalism: INSTITUTIONS: BUREAUCRATS AND RULERS (2002) (0)
5. Nuclear WMD Regimes in East Asia: PSI, Six-Party Talks, and the 1994 Agreed Framework (2016) (0)
The Philippines: Cheap Talk About a Free Ride (2017) (0)
Vietnam: Who’s Chasing Whom in Vietnam–U.S. Relations (2017) (0)

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