Professor Seungjoo Lee

Seungjoo Lee is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Chung-Ang University (Seoul, Korea), Chair of the Trade, Technology, and Transformation Research Center at the East Asia Institute, and Senior Research Affiliate at the Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley. He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Committee on Economic Security and Foreign Affairs (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Korea) and a member of the Policy Advisory Board of the Ministry of National Defense. Seungjoo has previously taught at the National University of Singapore and Yonsei University. He has also held various positions in academic associations in Korea such as the Korean Association of International Studies and the Korean Political Science Association. He is the co-author of The Political Economy of Change and Continuity in Korea: Twenty Years after the Crisis. He has also edited, among other works, Korea’s Middle Power Diplomacy, International Political Economy in Cyberspace, International Politics of Belt and Road, and Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific. His publications appeared in various journals such as Comparative Political Studies, The Pacific Review, Asian Survey, Natural Hazards Review, Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Korean Journal of International Studies and Korean Political Science Review. His current research focuses on the economy-security nexus, economic statecraft, the U.S.-China technology competition, and global digital governance. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.