About Us
Organization
- Name
- Ban Kiljoo
- Title
- Professor(Center Director)
- kjban24@mofa.go.kr
- Tel
- 02-3497-7654
- Research
- International security, the ROK-U.S. alliance, diplomatic strategy, North Korea’s nuclear program, maritime security
- Education
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The ROK Naval Academy (BA, Oceanography)
Korea National Defense University (MA, International Relations)
Arizona State University (Ph.D, Political Science) - Experience
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Program Director of International Organizations (Research Professor) & OGA Professor, IIRI, Korea University (2023∼2024)
Director of Security Studies, Inha CIS, Inha University (2021∼2022)
The Dean of the Department of International Relations, The ROK Naval Academy (2017) - Publications
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[Reports Published by IFANS]
▶ IFANS FOCUS
- Diplomatic Evaluation of S. Korea as Globally Responsible Power at UNGA 80(2025-31E, 2025.10.24.)
- North Korea’s Parade Politics: Pyongyang’s Strategic Calculations and Policy Implications from the WPK’s 80th Anniversary Celebrations(2025-30E, 2025.10.23.)
- North Korea’s Politics of Troop Deployment and Hyper-strategy(2025-24E, 2025.8.1.)
- The 22nd Shangri-La Dialogue and Indo-Pacific Security(2025-19E, 2025.6.26.)
- An Assessment of North Korea’s Naval Force Modernization: Pyongyang’s Intention and How to Counter Its Offensives(2025-14E, 2025.6.2.)
- Chinese-Installed Structures in the West Sea and Gray Zone Strategy: Patterns and Counter-MeasuresChinese-Installed Structures in the West Sea and Gray Zone Strategy: Patterns and Counter-Measures(2025-13E, 2025.5.30.)
- The First 100 Days of the Second Trump Administration: An Assessment of Foreign and National Security Policies and Outlook(2025-09E, 2025.5.13.)
- North Korea’s Strategic Nuclear Submarine and Nuclear Security: Strategic Implications and Policy Recommendations(2025-05E, 2025.3.25.)
- One Month of Trump 2.0 and the Indo-Pacific Geopolitics: Progress and Prospect(2025-04E, 2025.3.6.)
- The 61st Munich Security Conference amid the Rapidly Shifting Global Geopolitical Landscape: Achievements and Limitations(2025-02E, 2025.3.4.)
[etc]
Trump and the Korean Peninsula: Questions and Answers (Co-author, in Korean, 2025)
Will the New Cold War era arrive? (Co-author, in Korean, 2024)
MIZH Generation Unification Lecture (Co-author, in Korean, 2023)
The Key Interests of China in the Xi Jinping Era and Peace and Prosperity on the Korean Peninsula (Co-author, in Korean, 2022)
2022 Marine Fisheries Strategy Report (Co-author, in Korean, 2021)
Rebellion: Rebellion Project in the Age of Justice Collapse (in Korean, 2021)
2020-2021 Situation and Forecast of East Asian Maritime Security (Co-author,
in Korean, 2021).
Little Giant: The Successful Mechanism of COIN Operations in the Middle Power Korea (in Korean, 2017)
The Realist Maritime Strategy of International Politics : Sea Access Strategy and Balanced Power Projection (in Korean, 2012)
The Polar Bear Society : Social Capital of the U.S. and the Future of South Korea (in Korean, 2011)
- “Seizing the Geopolitical Moment: Sources of Deepening North Korea-Russia Ties and Their Impacts,” IJKUS, Vol. 34, No.1(2025). [KCI]
- “Alliance Politics of the Balance of Terror : Seeking Differentiation of Stability on the Korean Peninsula between Denuclearization and Co-nuclearization,” 『East and West Studies』, 37(2) (in Korean, 2025). [KCI]
- “War Geopolitics: Tracing the Two Wars of Soviet-Afghanistan and Russia-Ukraine,” 『Journal of International Politics』, 30(1) (in Korean, 2025) [KCI]
- "The Russia-Ukraine War and the Taiwan Contingency: Analysis on International Precedent Effects," 『Journal of Global Politics』, 18(1)(in Korean,2025).[KCI]
- “The Global South Geopolitics: Tracing Drivers and Policy Implications” 『Strategic Studies』, No. 95 (in Korean, 2025) [KCI]
- “Undersea Cable Security an Gray Zone Offensives,” 『National Security and Strategy』, 25(1) (in Korean, 2025). [KCI]
- “The ROK-U.S. Alliance and Shipbuilding Cooperation: K-Shipbuilding Industry as Leverage over the U.S.,” 『New ASIA』, 32(1) (in Korean, 2025) [KCI]
- “Rising New Alliance between Russia and North Korea: Geopolitical Convergence and Changing Games,” RIAS, 33(4) (in Korean, 2024) [KCI]
- “Making the NCG Work: Clarified Goals for Sustainability and Three Steps for Implementation,” Korea Observer, 55(4) (Co-author, 2024). [SSCI]
- “Defense Industry Geopolitics amid Changing International Order and K-DI Architecture Initiative,” 『Korea and World Politics』, 40(3) (in Korean, 2024). [KCI]
- “The New Cold War and the Typology of Diplomacy: Traditional Diplomacy vs. Value Diplomacy,” 『NEW ASIA』, 31(2) (in Korean, 2024). [KCI]
- “New Cold War and Maritime Security -Seeking Remedies to Mitigate Maritime Tension by the Exploration of the Dynamics of Maritime Conflicts-,” 『Ocean Policy Research』, 39(1) (in Korean, 2024). [KCI]
- “The Rise of War Era and Just War Theory: New Cold War and Israeli-Hamas War,” 『Peace Studies』, 32(1) (in Korean, 2024). [KCI]
- “The Evolution of Security Concept and the Emergence of Functional Realism under the New Cold War,” 『International Security and Strategy』, 24(1) (in Korean, 2024). [KCI]
- “The Typology of International Politics for New Cold War: Tracing the Relevance of Middle Power Diplomacy and South Korea’s International Politics Based on Advanced Strong Power,” 『The State and Politics』, 30(1) (in Korean, 2024). [KCI]
- “Tracing the Launching Process of New Security Architecture between South Korea, the U.S., and Japan: Both North Korea’s Nuclear Program and the New Cold War as its Linking Drivers,” 『Journal of International Studies』, 38 (in Korean, 2023). [KCI]
- “Indo-Pacific Strategy and Maritime Security in the New Cold War: Analyzing Correlation and Tracing Cases,” 『KRINS Quarterly』, 8(3) (in Korean, 2023). [KCI]
- “What Drives Alliance More Cohesive Amid the New Cold War : Tracing Structural Drivers for Strengthening the ROK-US Alliance in its 70th anniversary,” 『Strategic Studies』, 30(3) (in Korean, 2023). [KCI]
- “South Korea’s Diplomatic Strategy and the Fusion Diplomacy of South Korea-US-Japan Relations,” 『NEW ASIA』, 30(3) (in Korean, 2023). [KCI]
- “Reciprocity and Security Dilemma: Analytic Insight and Case Studies on the Korean Peninsula,” 『The Journal of Asiatic Studies』, 66(3) (in Korean, 2023). [KCI]
- “New Security Dilemma between David and Goliath : Tracing the Political and Military Mechanism of Guerilla Warfare amid the Rise of Great Power Politics,” 『The Journal of Northeast Asia Research』, 38(2) (in Korean, 2023). [KCI]
- “Synchronization of Strategy and Weapons: Tracing Mechanism of Shift from Light Carrier to Korea-tailored Carrier,” 『National Strategy』, 29(3) (in Korean, 2023). [KCI]
- “An Invisible Strategy with Visible Gains: Gray Zone Strategy of the Northeast Asian States and Challenges to South Korea,” Korea Observer, 54(1). [SSCI]
- “Just War Theory and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine,” 『KRINS Quaterly』, 7(3), (In Korean, 2022). [KCI]
- “Polishing the Concepts of Non-Traditional Warfares: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the Emergence of Fusion Battlefield,” 『Korean Journal of International Relations』, 62(3) (in Korean, 2022). [KCI]
- “The Rise of Economic Security in the New Cold War Era and South Korea’s Strategic Option,” 『Strategic Studies』, 87 (in Korean, 2022). [KCI]
- “What’s Role of Innovative and Next-Generation Weapons in Transforming Military Strategy? Likely Advanced Military Technologies in Changing for Strategy and Battlefield,” 『Korea Journal of Military Affairs』, 11 (in Korean, 2022). [KCI Candidate]
- “Tracing North Korea’s A2/AD Strategy and Security Implications,” 『Peace Studies』, 30(1) (in Korean, 2022). [KCI]
- “Arms Control Dialogue or Gray Zone Talks? Pitfalls of the Discourses of Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and Nuclear Arms Control,” Pacific Focus, 37(1) (2022). [SSCI]
- “The U.S.-China Strategic Competition and Alliance-Confluence Geopolitics: Implications from QUAD and AUKUS,” 『RIAS』, 31(1) (in Korean, 2022). [KCI]
- “The Risks of North Korean Nuclear Arms Control: Differentiating between Nuclear Denial and Arms Control and Its Political Implications,” 『NEW ASIA』, 28(4) (in Korean, 2021). [KCI]
- “Tracing Scenarios under the U.S.-China Structural Competition: Two-Level Balancing and Policy Implications,” 『Journal of International Politics』, 26(2) (in Korean, 2021). [KCI]
- “Lopsided Security on the Korean Peninsula: North Korea’s Gray Zone Evolution from Balance of Insecurity to Imbalance of Terror,” Asian Survey (2021). [SSCI]
- “Structural Factors to Make North Korea-U.S. Summit Feasible and its Policy Implications,” 『KRINS Quarterly』, 6(3) (in Korean, 2021). [KCI]
- “Middle Power Geopolitics and South Korea’s Force Planning: Tracing an Endogenous Factor of Politics to Acquire a Light Aircraft Carrier and Nuclear-powered Submarines,” 『Peace Studies』, 29(2) (in Korean, 2021). [KCI]
- “Linking Mechanism between Structure and Action in the New Cold War: Trends in Changes of the U.S. Maritime Strategy and its Slew of Measures to Counter China,” 『East and West Studies』, 33(3) (in Korean, 2021). [KCI]
- “Tracing the Process of South Korean Nuclear-Powered Submarine Program: The Application of Bureaucratic Politics Model and Policy Recommendations,” 『The State and Politics』, 27(2) (in Korean, 2021). [KCI Candidate]
- “Alliance Vulnerability and its Remedies: Tracing the Abandonment of Kurds and South Korea Under the Trump Administration,” Korean Journal of International Studies, 19(2) (in Korean, 2021). [SCOPUS]
- “The Evolving Strategy of Abrogation-Embracement-Initiative: South Korea’s Geopolitical Quagmire in the Era of the U.S.-China Strategic Competition and Its Own Bespoke Diplomatic Security Strategy,” 『21st centry Political Science Review』, 31(2) (in Korean, 2021). [KCI]
- “Non-Function of Institutions in International Politics: Tracing Mechanism of North Korea’s Nuclear Negotiations Interacting with Iran’s JCPOA,” 『Journal of International Studies』, 33 (in Korean, 2021). [KCI]
- “Arctic Dilemma in the New Cold War: International Systemic Approach and Prospect,” 『Korea and World Politics』, 37(2) (in Korean, 2021). [KCI]
- “The power of cultural weapons in counterinsurgency: South Korea’s Jeong culture and its effectiveness in Vietnam,” Small Wars and Insurgencies, 32(8), (2021). [SCOPUS]
- “The Clash of Security and Sovereignty in Quasi-Alliance: More Security by the UNC or More Autonomy for South Korea?” European Journal of East Asian Studies 21(1) (2021). [SCOPUS]
- “Just War and Just Battle: The Examination of North Korea’s Attack against the ROKS Cheonan Based on the Just War Principles,” Central European Journal of International and Security Studies, 15(1) (2021). [SCOPUS]
- “Alliance Contradiction: Tracing North Korea’s SLBM Development and Gap of Threat Perception between South Korea and the U.S.,” 『Strategic Studies』, 28(1) (2021). [KCI]
- “Carrier Politics: South Korea’s Aircraft Carrier: a Tradeoff between Military Effectiveness and Political Opportunity,” 『NEW ASIA』, 28(1) (in Korean, 2021). [KCI]
- “Two Tracks-led Seapower Strategy of China and South Korea’s Quagmire,” 『The Journal of Asiatic Studies』, 64(1) (in Korean, 2021). [KCI]
- “Cold War vs. New Cold War: Analyzing Inherent Dynamics of the U.S.-China Hegemonic Competition,” 『International Security and Strategy』, 21(1) (in Korean, 2021). [KCI]
- “Aircraft Carrier Balancing in Northeast Asia and South Korean Carrier Program: Power, Threat, and Function,” The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, 33(1) (2021). [SSCI]
- “Two-Level Silence and Nuclearization of Small Powers: The Logic of Rendering North Korea Nuclear-Armed,” Korea Observer, 52(1) (2021). [SSCI]
- “Maritime CBMs as Soft Deterrence in Northeast Asia: A Sea of Paradox that Conflict and Cooperation Coexist and its Remedies,” Pacific Focus, 35(3) (2020). [SSCI]
- “Tracing Non-structural Exogenous Variables of Declining Alliance Cohesion: The Gray State Strategy of China and North Korea and the Decoupling ROK-U.S. Alliance,” 『Journal of International Politics』, 25(2) (2020). [KCI]
- “The Clash of the UNC’s Past and its Future: Tracing the Friction of the Discourses between Contributing Peace and Contracted Sovereignty and Seeking a Win-Win Strategy,” 『KRINS Quarterly』, 4(3) (2020). [KCI]
- “Jammed Allies: The Ironclad ROK-U.S. Alliance and China as a Gray Actor,” Asian Politics & Policy, 12(3) (2020). [SCOPUS]
- “The two-for-one entity and a ‘for whom’ puzzle: UNC both a peace driver and the U.S. hegemony keeper in Asia,” Asian Journal of Political Science, 29(1) (2021). [SCOPUS]
- “North Korea’s Growing Threat of SLBM as a Game Changer and South Korea’s Comprehensive Counter-Measures: What to Change and How to Offset It,” 『National Strategy』, 26(3) (in Korean, 2020). [KCI]
- “Offensive Maritimeism in East Asian Waters : Offensive Realism Theory and Maritime Strategies of Four Major Powers in Northeast Asia,” 『Strategic Studies』, 81 (in Korean, 2020). [KCI]
- “Making Neutrality Credibly Work: The NNSC on the Korean Peninsula,” East Asia, 37(4) (2020). [SCOPUS]
- “North Korea’s Nuclear Threat and a Diversionary Theory of War: The Clash of National Security and Regime Security in the Trump Administration,” 『New ASIA』, 27(2) (in Korean, 2020). [KCI]
- “Designing the Middle Power Theory : The Structural Approach and South Korea’s Middle Power Politics,” 『Korea and World Politics』, 36(2) (in Korean, 2020). [KCI]
- “The Gray Zone Strategy of Northeast Asian States and South Korea’s Bespoke Counter-Measures,” 『Korea Journal of Military Affairs』, 7 (in Korean, 2020). [KCI Candidate]
- “The Dilemma of Maritime Boundaries’ Ambiguity : Military Conflicts in Northeast Asia’s ADIZs and Maritime Confidence Building Measures,” 『The Journal of Asiatic Studies』, 63(2) (in Korean, 2020). [KCI]
- “A Sufficient Condition of Hegemonic War between the U.S. and China: Tracing Catalytic Causes Led by Agents to Fill the Gap left by Deterministic Structuralism,” 『Korean Journal of International Relations』, 60(2) (in Korean, 2020). [KCI]
- “Designing the Maritime Strategy of the Middle-Power Korea: The Maritime Access Strategy,” 『STRATEGY 21』, 22(1) (in Korean, 2019)
- “North Korea's Double-Provocation Capability and South Korean Navy's Maritime Coercion Strategy,” 『Maritime Strategy』, 176 (in Korean, 2017)
- “China’s Dual Strategy Made by Both Material and Non-material Warfares: China’s Aircraft Carrier Operations and the Three Warfares,” 『Military Forum』, 95 (in Korean, 2017).
- “ The Accidental Denial of a Hegemonic Power’s Role ,” 『STRATEGY 21』, 20(2), (in Korean, 2017).
- “A Study on the Application of Military Mission on the Korean Peninsula in the Air-Sea Battle,” 『Maritime Strategy』, 172 (in Korean, 2016)
- “A Study on the Polished Security Policy: The Theoretical Perspectives of International Politics and the Northeast Asian Countries’ Maritime Advancement,” 『Maritime Strategy』, 170 (in Korean, 2016).
- “ Aircraft carriers : National ships or paper tigers?- Conditions to acquire aircraft carriers analyzed by tracing cases-,” 『STRATEGY 21』, 19(1) (in Korean, 2016).
- “The Impact of North Korea’s Asymmetric Attack on South Korea’s Blue Water Navy Strategy: The Examination of the ROKN Cheonan Incident,” 『Korean Journal of Military Art and Science』, 68(2) (in Korean, 2012). [KCI Candidate]
- “Making Counterinsurgency Work: The Effectiveness of the ROK Military’s Independent Operational Control in Vietnam and Iraq,” The Journal of East Asian Affairs, 25(1) (2011).
- “The ROK as a Middle Power: Its Role in Counterinsurgency,” Asian Politics & Policy, 3(2) (2011). [SCOPUS]
- “The Clash of David and Goliath at Sea: The USS Cole Bombing as Sea Insurgency and Lessons for the ROK Navy,” Asian Politics & Policy, 2(3) (2010). [SCOPUS]
- “Political or Religious Insurgencies and Different COIN Remedies: Insights from Identifying Distinction between Malaya Insurgency and Intifada,” 『Korean Journal of Military Art and Science』, 65(1) (2009)
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