📘 Pleased to share that Asian Affairs has recently published a thoughtful review of my book, Territorial Expansion and Great Power Behavior During the Cold War: A Theory of Armed Emergence (Routledge, 2025).
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📖 More about the book: www.amazon.com/Territorial-...

📕 How did Louis XIV survive his failed bid for hegemony?

My new book with @anthempress.bsky.social explores the Sun King’s war termination lessons, still relevant for great powers today.

🛒 Get it here: www.amazon.com/How-Louis-XI...

최근 출간된 『한국의 핵안보 프로젝트 2』에 저의 연구가 21장에 실렸습니다. 이번 장에서는 영국과 프랑스를 효과적으로 설득하는 방안을 다루며, 한국의 핵안보 환경에서 두 유럽 강대국이 가지는 전략적 의미와 외교적 레버리지를 분석했습니다.

핵안보, 외교전략, 한반도 안보정책에 관심 있는 분들께 이 책을 추천드립니다.
👉 product.kyobobook.co.kr/detail/S0002...

My review of "Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea" is out in the North Korean Review.
jstor.org/stable/27393...

While Thailand and Cambodia edge toward war, my two recent books explore regional power politics, and the two countries feature prominently in both:
🌏 Territorial Expansion and Great Power Behavior During the Cold War
🌐 Bandwagoning in International Relations
🔗 www.dylanmotin.com/my-books

If you'd like to learn more about President Lee's policies towards China and Russia, you can check out @joelatkinson.bsky.social's and my appearance on KBS World from yesterday (episode from 07.08, at minute 8).

world.kbs.co.kr/service/prog...

New article out in Asian Development Perspectives:
“Who Won the San Francisco Earthquake?” The Impact of Disasters on International Politics

🔍 Not all disasters reshape world politics.
📉 Only those that shift the balance of power do.
🌍 Realists, take note.

Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.22681/ADP...

My book Bandwagoning in International Relations is now in paperback!

Grab it with 30% off at Vernon Press — use code OHSJ30.

🛒 vernonpress.com/book/2109

#IR #PowerPolitics #China #Russia #BookRelease

Iran’s predicament is a textbook example of why realists prize raw military power. If you have enemies and lack sufficient military capabilities, you get attacked, no matter how loud your rhetoric or how wide your network of proxies.

📘 My new book is out with Routledge!

Territorial Expansion and Great Power Behavior During the Cold War explores why and when states like Egypt & Vietnam expanded to acquire resources.

Grab a copy: www.routledge.com/Territorial-...

#InternationalRelations #IR #SecurityStudies #MiddleEast #History

Could Presidents Lee and Trump be the key to peace in Korea? I explore this question in this new piece.
nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-w...

So much for "nothing ever happens."

🚨 India–Pakistan tensions are rising.

One alliance that still shapes the region: China & Pakistan.

I unpack it in Bandwagoning in International Relations.

📘 vernonpress.com/book/1913

#Geopolitics #IR #ChinaPakistan

I lay out here the case for a South Korean nuclear deterrent, arguing that it would benefit American security by allowing the US to refocus on China while having South Korea maintain the balance on the Korean Peninsula.
thehill.com/opinion/inte...

I'm honored to receive a Prix Jeunes Chercheurs CRRC 2024 with the support of the French Embassy in Seoul. My research, exploring South Korea's debate on developing its own nuclear deterrent, was selected for this award.
A big thank you to the CRRC, the French Embassy, and everyone who participated!

Check out my last piece for PacNet! I discuss the growing risk of a Chinese military intervention in Myanmar and what it could look like.

Full article here:
pacforum.org/publications...