Current Research Interests

· International relations in and around Southeast Asia 

· International-domestic nexus of Southeast Asian studies 

· Sociological and eclectic approaches in International Relations  

· Studies of international regional organizations    

· East Asian regional institutions   

· Foreign policies of Southeast Asian countries      

· Institutional changes and continuity of ASEAN  

· External relations of ASEAN  

·“Enduring Hypocrisy as an ASEAN’s Organisational Problem?” Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 43(1) (2024).https://doi.org/10.1177/18681034231215813 

· "Regionalizing Development Cooperation? Examining Intra-ASEAN Regionalism via IAI," Global Governance 28(1): 103-124 (2022).

https://doi.org/10.1163/19426720-02801002

· "Industrial Policy Reforms for Political Risk Management? Understanding the Evolution of Automotive Industrial Policies in Vietnam," Globalizations 19(8): 1225-1240 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2048472 

· "미얀마 위기와 아세안 무용론? 아세안의 제도적 진화와 그 함의 (Useless ASEAN? Examining ASEAN's Engagement in Political Crisis in Myanmar),"『국제·지역연구』(RIAS) 30(4): 143-171 (2021). 

· "Regional Security Order Transition and the ROK's Order Management: Critique and Suggestions," The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 33(4): 557-577 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.22883/kjda.2021.33.4.001

· "동남아시아의 분절적 다자주의: 위기인가 기회인가? (Compartmentalized Multilateralism in Southeast Asia: Problems or Opportunities?)," 『국가안보와 전략』(National Security and Strategy) 21(1): 89-119 (2021).

· "한국의 아세안 연구(2001-2020): 리뷰와 제안 (ASEAN Studies in Korea(2001-2020): Reviews and Suggestions)," 『동아연구』(East Asian Studies) 40(1): 77-99 (2021).

· "동아시아의 지역 만들기: 관계구조와 그 정책적 함의 (Getting Closer Regionally: Relational Structure and Its Policy Implications)," 『국제정치연구』(The Journal of International Relations) 24(1): 81-104(2021).

· "Divergent Ideas, Distant Friendship: Assessing Korea's 30 Years of Political-Security Diplomacy with ASEAN," Korea Observer 51(4): 523-550 (2020). DOI:10.29152/KOIKS.2020.51.4.523

· "아세안 2018: 혁신, 복원력, 진전, 그리고 질서의 재편?(ASEAN 2018: Innovation, Resilience and Restructuring of Regionalism?)"(co-authored with Hyung Jong Kim) 『동남아시아 연구』(The Southeast Asian Review) 29(2): 1-30 (2019).

· "Seeing ASEAN as a Platform for Spreading Liberalism," International Journal 73(1): 33-48 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1177/0020702018754594

· "ASEAN as a Community of Managerial Practices," Global Governance 23(2): 245-263 (2017). http://www.jstor.org/stable/44861122

· "일본과 중국의 대아세안 협력: 경쟁과 수렴(Japan and China's policies toward ASEAN: Competition and Convergence) ," 『신아세아』(New Asia) 24(2): 150-174(2017).

· "아세안 50주년, 동아시아 지역협력과 아세안 리더쉽을 중심으로(Re-assessing ASEAN Leadership in East Asia in its 50th Anniversary)," 『국가전략』(National Strategy) 23(2): 179-197 (2017).

· "아세안 2016: 아세안 방식의 변화 또는 연속성 (ASEAN in 2016: Change and Continuity of ASEAN Way)" (co-authored with Hyung Jong Kim), 『동남아시아연구』(The Southeast Asian Review) 27(2): 155-184 (2017).

· "호주와 일본의 대ASEAN 지원협력 비교: 다자 효용성을 중심으로 (Promoting "Multilatearl Utility" through ASEAN: Comparison of Australian and Japanese Deveploment Cooperation Programs for ASEAN) ," 『국가안보와 전략』(National Security and Strategy) 16(3): 227-262 (2016).

· "ASEAN Regional Forum as a Reference Point: Progress and Limitations of NAPCI's Institutional Designs," Korea Observer 47(2): 387-416 (2016).

· "Neither Left-out nor Pushed-over: Anxious ASEAN and its 4C Practices," The Pacific Review 28(5):703-729 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2015.1012539

· "아세안 연계성의 정치(Connectivity Politics in ASEAN)," 『국가전략』(National Strategy) 21(1): 165-188 (2015).

· "The Dilemma of Attraction-Autonomy Deficits: The Institutionalization of Human Rights in ASEAN" Korean Journal of International Studies 12: 353-377 (2014).

Postgraduate Student Supervision

Potential topics: International relations in Southeast Asia, East Asia Diplomacy, regionalism, international regional institutions, ASEAN, Korea-ASEAN relations, etc