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PhD Political Science Columbia University
Masters International Affairs Johns Hopkins University
Bachelors Economics Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Victor D. Cha is an American academic, author and former national foreign policy advisor. He is a former Director for Asian Affairs in the White House's National Security Council, with responsibility for Japan, North and South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. He was George W. Bush's top advisor on North Korean affairs. He currently holds the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and is the Director of the Asian Studies program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Cha is also senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies .

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Powerplay: Origins of the U.S. Alliance System in Asia (2010) (177)
Globalization and the Study of International Security (2000) (143)
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (2012) (139)
Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (1999) (126)
Abandonment, Entrapment, and Neoclassical Realism in Asia: The United States, Japan, and Korea (2000) (114)
Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia (2008) (111)
Hawk Engagement and Preventive Defense on the Korean Peninsula (2002) (89)
Nuclear North Korea (2018) (85)
Korea's Place in the Axis (2002) (55)
A Theory of Sport and Politics (2009) (52)
Complex Patchworks: U.S. Alliances as Part of Asia's Regional Architecture (2011) (48)
Alignment Despite Antagonism: The US-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (2000) (45)
North Korea's Weapons of Mass Destruction: Badges, Shields, or Swords? (2002) (38)
What Do They Really Want?: Obama's North Korea Conundrum (2009) (35)
Engaging China: Seoul-Beijing détente and Korean security (1999) (31)
Bridging the Gap: The Strategic Context of the 1965 Korea-Japan Normalization Treaty (2011) (30)
U.S. Force Posture Strategy in the Asia Pacific Region: An Independent Assessment (2012) (29)
The Debate over North Korea (2004) (24)
Powerplay: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia (2016) (23)
Realism, Liberalism, and the Durability of the U.S.-South Korean Alliance (1997) (23)
Asia’s COVID-19 Lessons for the West: Public Goods, Privacy, and Social Tagging (2020) (22)
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: South Korea’s Strategic Dilemmas with China and the United States (2016) (22)
Role of Sport in International Relations: National Rebirth and Renewal (2016) (22)
A North Korean Spring? (2012) (21)
Politics and Democracy under the Kim Young Sam Government: Something Old, Something New (1993) (21)
The Asian Games and Diplomacy in Asia: Korea–China–Russia (2013) (18)
Hate, Power, and Identity in Japan–Korea Security: Towards a Synthetic Material-Ideational Analytical Framework (2000) (17)
The Korea Crisis (2003) (17)
Beijing's Olympic-Sized Catch-22 (2008) (15)
The Rationale for Enhanced Engagement of North Korea: After the Perry Policy Review (1999) (15)
Engaging North Korea credibly (2000) (13)
Korea's Democratization: Security and Democracy in South Korean Development (2003) (12)
Focus on the future, not the north (2002) (10)
The second nuclear age: Proliferation pessimism versus sober optimism in South Asia and East Asia (2001) (10)
The North Korea Question (2016) (10)
Can North Korea be Engaged? (2004) (10)
Strategic Culture and the Military Modernization of South Korea (2001) (10)
Politics and the Olympic Transaction: Measuring China's Accomplishments (2010) (9)
The Right Way to Coerce North Korea (2018) (9)
Flagrant Foul: China’s Predatory Liberalism and the NBA (2019) (9)
Defining Security in East Asia (1998) (7)
Is There Still a Rational North Korean Option for War? (1998) (7)
Winning is Not Enough: Sport and Politics in East Asia and Beyond (2013) (7)
JAPAN'S ENGAGEMENT DILEMMAS WITH NORTH KOREA (2001) (6)
THE ZERO-SUM PAST AND THE PRECARIOUS FUTURE (1999) (6)
Informal hierarchy in Asia: the origins of the U.S.–Japan alliance (2017) (6)
America and South Korea: The Ambivalent Alliance? (2003) (6)
South Korea in 2011: Holding Ground as the Region's Linchpin (2012) (6)
South Korea in 2010: Navigating New Heights in the Alliance (2011) (6)
The continuity behind the change in Korea (2000) (6)
Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History by Bruce Cumings (1998) (5)
Allied Decoupling in an Era of US–China Strategic Competition (2020) (5)
Alignment despite antagonism : Japan and Korea as quasi-allies (1994) (5)
Dialogue about Elections in Japan and South Korea (2013) (5)
Japan's Grand Strategy on the Korean Peninsula: Optimistic Realism (2000) (4)
American Alliances and Asia’s Regional Architecture (2014) (4)
A Vision of Asia (2007) (4)
South Korea in 2004: Peninsular Flux (2005) (4)
The Case of the Pivot to Asia: System Effects and the Origins of Strategy (2017) (4)
The U.S. Role in Inter-Korean Relations: Container, Facilitator, or Impeder? (2004) (3)
Multilateral Security in Asia and the U.S.-Japan Alliance (2003) (3)
The Obama administration's policy toward East Asia (2010) (3)
13. Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, and Stability: A Case for "Sober Optimism" (2002) (2)
The Unintended Consequences of Success: U.S. Retrenchment from Korea? (2019) (2)
Next of Kim (2012) (2)
A Path Less Chosun (2015) (2)
Making China Pay on North Korea (2017) (2)
The Security Dilemma in Asian Architecture: United States, Japan, and China (2011) (2)
Shaping change in the alliance (2004) (1)
''New Beginnings'' in the U.S.-ROK Alliance: Recommendations to the Obama Administration (released in 2010) (2010) (1)
Book Reviews (2000) (1)
What to Expect at the Second North Korea Summit (2019) (1)
Informal Empire: The Origins of the U.S.–ROK Alliance and the 1953 Mutual Defense Treaty Negotiations (2017) (1)
3. Response: Why We Must Pursue “Hawk Engagement” (2018) (1)
CONTEMPORARY ASIA IN THE WORLD (2015) (1)
The End of History: ‘Neojuche Revivalism’ and Korean Unification (2011) (1)
A Nuclear Fission: The North Korea Debate in Washington (2004) (1)
Politics of South Korea (2013) (1)
Challenges for North Korea’s Nuclear Endgame (2010) (1)
Mistaken Attribution: The United States and Inter-Korean Relations (2002) (1)
What Drives Korea-Japan Security Relations? (1998) (1)
The U.S. and Asia in 2011 (2011) (0)
Talk of a Washington Split Over North Korea Is Overblown (2003) (0)
8. Conclusion: US Alliances and the Complex Patchwork of Asia’s Architecture (2016) (0)
2. The Argument: Powerplay (2016) (0)
Cultural Security Perceptions in Northeast Asia and Their Impact on Energy Cooperation (2000) (0)
7. Is North Korea a Problem Not to Be Solved? (2018) (0)
Introduction: The Debate Over North Korea (2018) (0)
4. Greasing the Wheels of Diplomacy (2008) (0)
Postscript: Korea's Place in the Axis (2002) (0)
Politics of North Korea (2013) (0)
Informal Empire: The Origins of the U.S.–ROK Alliance and the 1953 Mutual Defense Treaty Negotiations (2017) (0)
The Free Trade Agreement Could Spoil South Korea's State Visit (2011) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 28 (2015) (0)
List of Illustrations and Tables (2016) (0)
6. Japan: “Win Japan” (2016) (0)
1. The Puzzle (2016) (0)
5. Hyperbole Dominates: The 2003 Nuclear Crisis (2018) (0)
3. More Than Just National Pride (2008) (0)
4. Taiwan: “Chaining Chiang” (2016) (0)
Note to the Reader (2010) (0)
6. Catch-22 (2008) (0)
Balance, Parallelism, and Asymmetry: United States-Korea Relations 1 (2001) (0)
6. Beyond Hyperbole, Toward a Strategy (2018) (0)
Security and Politics on the Korean Peninsula: Constantly Changing or Forever Constant? (2000) (0)
America's Asian Alliances. Robert D. Blackwill and Paul Dibb (eds), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. 160pp, pound12.95 (2001) (0)
7. The Slippery Slope of Change (2008) (0)
3. Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia (2016) (0)
5. The Olympic Facelift (2008) (0)
1. Purism Versus Politics (2008) (0)
Washington Report, 2009-11 (2009) (0)
North Korea: The Road Ahead (2010) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 27 (2014) (0)
Land of the Morning Calm: Korea and American Security . By A. James Gregor. Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1990. xiv, 127 pp. (1991) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 40 (2010) (0)
5. Korea: “Rhee- Straint” (2016) (0)
The Security Dilemma in Asian Architecture (2011) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 35 (2006) (0)
Currents of Power: U.S. Alliances with Japan and Taiwan during the Cold War (2007) (0)
Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea by Leon D. Sigal (1999) (0)
Collective Security (2008) (0)
"Three-Stage" Approach to Korean Unification: Focusing on the South-North Confederal Stage@@@My Love, My Country (1999) (0)
Reverberation and the Domestic Politics of Civil Nuclear Cooperation1 (2015) (0)
America's Asian Alliances edited by Robert D. Blackwill and Paul Dibb (2001) (0)
The ROK–US Alliance (2022) (0)
A Better North Korea Strategy (2018) (0)
[PacNet코너] Values After Victory: The Future of U.S.-Japan-Korea Relations (2002) (0)

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