Key-young Son

Key-young Son is Professor at the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University. His areas of research include East Asian and global politics and constructivist theories. He received Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield and served as a lecturer of Korean studies at the university’s School of East Asian Studies. His recent publications include Order Wars and Floating Balance: How the Rising Powers Are Reshaping Our Worldview in the Twenty-First Century (London and New York: Routledge, 2018) (with Andreas Herberg-Rothe); South Korean Engagement Policies and North Korea: Identities, Norms and the Sunshine Policy, Routledge, 2006; ‘Entrenching “Identity Norms” of Tolerance and Engagement: Lessons from Rapprochement between North and South Korea’, Review of International Studies, 2007; and ‘From a Garrison State to a Humanitarian Power?: Security Identities, Constitutive Norms and South Korea’s Overseas Troop Dispatches,’ The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, 2001. He can be reached by skyquick@hotmail.com, or Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, Anam-dong 5ga, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-701, Korea.