Yi, Okyeon

E D U C A T I O N

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, January 2002.

Dissertation: “Federalism, Fiscal Centralization, and Partisan Competition”

Dissertation Chair: Robert Franzese, Jr.

Dissertation Committee: Ronald Inglehart, Jenna Bednar, Albert Park (economics)

M.A. (joint), Applied Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1998;

Advisor: George Johnson

M.A., Political Science, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1992;

Thesis: “Three Tigers and Defense”

Advisor: Glenn Palmer

B.A., Magna cum Laude, International Relations, University of California, Davis, 1986;

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, International Relations, 1982-1984.

Foreign Languages: Fluency in English and Korean

H O N O R S   &   A W A R D S (including grants)

Faculty Research Grant, Korean Research Foundation, 2019-2020

Asia Universities Alliance(AUA) Grant, Scholar-in-residence, 2019

Faculty Research Grant, College of Social Sciences, Seoul National University, 2018

Faculty Research Grant, Korean Research Foundation, 2016~2018 (participating scholar)

Outstanding Scholarly Publication Award, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea, 2015

Faculty Research Grant, Korean Research Foundation, 2015~2016

Visiting Fellowship, IFUSS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2015 & 2014

Outstanding Scholarly Publication Award, Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea, 2014 (co-authored)

Research Publication Grant, College of Social Sciences, Seoul National University, 2013

Policy Research Grant, Korean Institute of Legislative Studies, Inc., 2012 & 2013

Faculty Research Grant, Korean Research Foundation, 2011~2012

Research Publication Grant, American Studies Institute, Seoul National University, 2011

Faculty Visiting Fellowship, Seoul National University, 2011

Faculty Research Grant, Korean Research Foundation, 2010-2011

Faculty Travel Grant, College of Social Science, Seoul National University, 2008

Research Publication Grant, Korea Research Foundation, 2006-2007

Faculty Research Grant, Korea Research Foundation, 2005-2006

Junior Faculty Travel Grant, Korean Political Science Association, 2002

International Advanced Graduate Student Travel Grant, American Political Science Association, 2001

Rackham Dissertation Scholarship, Rackham Graduate School, Univ. of Michigan, 2001

Margaret Dow Towsley/Center for the Education of Women Scholarship, Univ. of Michigan, 2000-2001

Rackham Grant, Rackham Graduate School, Univ. of Michigan, 2000, 2001

Merit Fellowship, Political Science Dept., Univ. of Michigan, 2000

Laurel Harper Seeley/Alumnae Council Scholarship, Univ. of Michigan, 1999-2000, 2000-2001

Barbour Scholarship, Rackham Graduate School, Univ. of Michigan, 1997-1998

Korean Honor Scholarship, Korean Embassy, 1996

Korean-American Scholarship, Korean-American Scholarship Foundation, 1996, 2000

Pi Sigma Alpha (Honor Society), 1995

Phi Beta Kappa (Honor Society), 1987

High Honors from University of California, Davis, 1986

Korean Foundation for Advanced Studies Collegiate Scholarship, 1984

P U B L I C A T I O N S (Articles & Books)

[in Korean] “Exploring the Brexit as an Option over European Regional Integration, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island, or Both,” Journal of International Area Studies, vol. 23(1), 217-246, 2019.

[in Korean] “Comparing Federalism and Its Proposition to Operationalize the Concept of Federalization across United States of America and European Union,” American Studies, vol. 41(1), 99-131, 2018.

[in Korean] “Ambivalence in the Change and Continuity of the Transatlantic Relation,” American Studies, vol. 39(1), 73-103, 2016.

[in Korean] “Conceptualizing the Hybridity of Social Economy in Europe in the Context of its Generality and Specificity,” Journal of Korean Politics, vol. 25(2), 279-306, 2016.

[in Korean] “Merits and Demerits of European Regional Integration and Its Implication in Asia,” Korean Journal of Area Studies, vol. 33(1), 7-34, 2015 (coauthored).

“The Internal Supply-side causes for the Belated Rise of the Sweden Democrats,” Korean Journal of International Studies, vol. 13(1), 263-290, 2015 (coauthored).

[in Korean] “Exploring post-Unified Korea from Varieties of Federal Systems,” Journal of Korean Politics, vol. 24(1), 55-81, 2015.

[in Korean] American Democracy in a Kaleidoscope, Seoul: Oreum Publishing House, 2014.

[in Korean] “Education Welfare and American Federalism,” Korean Journal of Area Studies, vol. 31(3), 165-194, 2013.

[in Korean] “Immigrant Integration and the Refracted Consensual Party Politics in the Netherlands,” Korean International Studies Review, vol. 53(3), 503-545, 2013.

[in Korean] “A Trilemma in Local Governance and the Japanese Intergovernmental Relations,” 21st Century Political Science Review, vol. 22(3), 421-445, 2012.

[in Korean] “Building an Immigrant Nation under Federalism in the United States of America,” Korean International Studies Review, vol. 51(4), 189-212, 2011.

“American Wartime Democracy Redux: Internment of Japanese Descendents in 1942,” Korean Journal of Political Science, vol. 45(6), 89-111, 2011.

[in Korean] “Immigration, Federalism and the European Union,” Korean Journal of Area Studies, vol. 29(3), 241-267, 2011.

“Befuddling Executive Power with Executive Unilateralism in the Unitary Executive.” Journal of International Politics, vol. 16(1), 223-251, 2011.

[in Korean] “Religious Identity, Political Identity, and European Identity,” Journal of Korean Politics, vol. 20(1), 121-154, 2011.

[in Korean] “A Blind Spot in American Democracy: Separation of Power in Foreign Policy under Presidentialism,” Journal of American Studies, vol. 42(2), 43-74, 2010.

[in Korean] “Sketching Multicultralism with the Legal-institutional Federalism and Party System in Switzerland,” Korean International Studies Review, vol. 49(5), 283-314, 2009.

Social Theory of International Politics: Constructivism. Translated into Korean with Park, Kunyoung, Koo, Kapwoo, and Choi, Jong-gun from Social Theory of International Politics. Wendt, Alexander. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), Seoul: Sahoe Pyungron, 2009.

[in Korean] “Engaging Social Conservatism Politically in America: Principles and Practices of Separation of Church and State,” Journal of International Area Studies, vol. 13(2), 283-314, 2009.

[in Korean] “Illuminating American Democracy in the State of California,” Review of International and Area Studies, vol. 17(4), 119-148, 2008.

“Comments on Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific and U.S. Interests,” Nanzan Review of American Studies, vol. 30, 175-183, 2008.

[in Korean] Comparative Federalism in Pursuit of Integration and Decentralization, Seoul: Oreum Publishing House, 2008.

[in Korean] “Motivational Forces of Regional Order and Political Integration in East Asia,” Korean Journal of Area Studies, vol. 26(1), 169-198, 2008.

[in Korean] “Separated Institutions Sharing Power,” American Studies, vol. 30, 87-121, 2007.

“A Journey to Recognize Labor as a Social Question in the Modern Japan,” Development & Society, vol. 36(2), 297-330, 2007.

[in Korean] “Comparing the Establishment of Federalism as Multi-Level Governance in 7 Advanced Federal States,” Journal of Korean and International Studies, vol. 23(4), 99-137, 2007.

“Institutional and Political Dimensions of Fiscal Federalism in the Multilevel Government, the U.S. Case,” Korean Journal of Area Studies, vol. 25(2), 211-248, 2007.

“Government Growth in Industrialized Democracies,” New Asia, vol. 14(1), 140-174, 2007.

[in Korean] “Exploring Clues to Living Federalism in U.S.,” American Studies, vol. 29, 163-199, 2006.

“How Does Federalism Condition The Employment-Welfare Relationship?: Integrating Social Welfare Policy and Active Labor Market Policy into Youth Employment Policy in Canada,” Journal of International and Area Studies, vol. 13(2), 75-96, 2006.

“Comparing National-Subnational Relations in 8 Unitary States,” International Area Review, vol. 9(2), 83-112, 2006.

[in Korean] “Canadian Federalism in Pursuit of Unity and Decentralization,” Korean Journal of Area Studies, vol. 24(1), 245-273, 2006.

[in Korean] “Is ‘Atlanticism’ Viable?: the Transatlantic Relationship in Transition,” International Relations Review, vol. 11(1), 63-99, 2006.

“An Empirical Discourse on Pork Barrel Politics, the Japanese Style: Exploring Cases of a Systematic Difference between the ‘Desperado’ and ‘Relaxed’ Incumbents,” Korean Journal of International Studies, vol. 3(1), 179-202, 2006.

[in Korean] “Dynamics of Northeast Asia and North Korea in Post-Cold War Era,” Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 12(2), 243-253, 2005.

[in Korean]  “A 30-Second Bid to Win: Comparing Polispots in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election,” Journal of International Area Studies, vol. 9(1), 227-257, 2005.

[in Korean]  “Reassessing Gender-Based Differences in the Security Perception,” Journal of National Defense Studies, vol. 47(2), 199-220, 2004.

[in Korean]  “Comparing the American and Canadian Federalism in the Context of a Nation-Building Process and Constitutional Ratification,” Korean International Studies Review, vol. 45(4), 319-340, 2004 (coauthored).

[in Korean]  “A Theoretical Discourse on Associative Democracy: Focusing on the Selective State-Level Interest Group Activities in Wisconsin,” Journal of American Studies, vol. 36(2), 223-341, 2004.

American Strategy of Coercion: Theory, Practice, and Prospective. Translated into Korean from The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might. Byman, Daniel and Matthew Waxman. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), Seoul: Sahoe Pyungron, 2004.

“The Causality and Elasticity of Defense,” Korean Journal of International Studies, vol. 1(1), 7-29, 2003.

[in Korean] “Federalism as Multi-Level Governance,” Korean Journal of Political Science, vol. 37(5), 393-416, 2003.

“Theorizing About Defense and Performance: A Selective Research Assessment,” Journal of National Security, vol. 8(1), 63-88, 2003.

[in Korean] “Comparing Federalism in Australia, Austria, Canada, and Germany,” Journal of Korean and International Studies, vol. 18(4), 69-98, 2002.

[in Korean] “Federalism, Fiscal Centralization, and Partisan Competition,” Korean International Studies Review, vol. 43(3), 361-386, 2002.

B O O K   C H A P T E R S

[in Korean] “Contextualizing Brexit,” Others in Europe: History and Politics of ‘Distinction’, coauthored with Taeyoung Hong, Bee Yun, Joonseok Kim, Myeonhoe Kim, Hongshik Cho, Jongbub Kim, Seokjoon Yoon, 2019, Seoul: Sahoepyongron.

[in Korean] “European Regional Integration and its Ramification in the Korean Context,” Issues and Tasks in the Twenty-First Century Korea, ed. by Faculty of Poltical Science and International Relations, Seoul National University, 2018, Seoul: Nulpumplus.

[in Korean] “A New Political Sysem and the Experiment of European Union,” Mapping Korea in World for the Next Millenium, ed. by Center for International Studies, 2018, Seoul: Sahoepyongron.

[in Korean] “Central-Local Relation in Post-Unification Korea,” Political System in Post-Unification Korea, ed. by Young-Kwan Yoon and Wontaek Kang, 2015, Seoul: Neulpoom Plus.

[in Korean] “Compound Republic: Origin and Development in U.S.,” From Division-Unification to Separation-Integration, ed. by Separation-Integration Research Group, 2014, Seoul: Sapyoung Academy.

[in Korean] “Preface,” Gender and World Politics, World Politics Publication Series Vol. 19, ed. by Center for International Studies SNU, 2013, Seoul: Sahoepyongron.

[in Korean] “Preface,” “Federalism (coauthored with Sungdae Cho),” “Public Policy” (coauthored with Soyoung Lee),” American Government and Politics 2, ed. by Korean Association of American Politics, 2013, Seoul: Oruem.

[in Korean] “Preface,” Mapping Meanings of Europe, coauthored with Johannes Helmrath, Madeleine Hosli, Taeyoung Hong, Bee Yun, Hongshik Cho, Joonseok Kim, Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 2011.

[in Korean] “Healthcare Reform, Immigration Overhaul and 2010 Off-year Election” (coauthored with Soyoung Lee), The American Election and Another Change: The 2010 Mid-term Election, ed. by Korean Association of American Politics, 2011, Seoul: Oruem.

[in Korean] “Preface,” America Decides for Hope and Change in 2008, ed. by Korean Association of American Politics, 2009, Seoul: Oruem.

[in Korean] “Preface,” “ESDP and European Military Capacity,” World Politics Vol. 6, No. 1, ed. by Center for International Studies SNU, 2006, Seoul: Ingan Sarang.

[in Korean] “Spot Ads and the Media in a Presidential Campaign,” Bush Again America Divided, ed. by Korean Association of American Politics, 2005, Seoul: Oruem.