Past Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

• ‘Energy Contest in the Gulf: The Role of the State in East Asian-Gulf Energy Transactions in post-ISIS Iraq,’ Gulf Research Meeting, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom (July 15-18, 2019)

• ‘Energy Contest in the Gulf: The Role of the State in East Asian-Gulf Energy Transactions in post-ISIS Iraq,’ Energy Security in the Middle East – Geopolitics, Security Challenges and Sustainable Supplies, Arab Institute for Security Studies / University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan (June 20, 2019) 

• ‘Renewable Energy in Trade Wars: Solar Power in South Korea’s Energy Mix and the Impact of Protectionism,’ The APYLP-SGRA Forum, Asia Society Japan & Atsumi Foundation, Tokyo, Japan (February 2, 2019); Trade Frontier, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, Seoul, South Korea (February 25, 2019)

• Book Prospectus for Trade & Currency Conflict, IGLP Scholars Workshop, Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School, Bangkok, Thailand (January 6-10, 2019)

• ‘Trump’s America First Policy in Global and Historical Perspectives: Implications for U.S.-East Asian Trade,’ Special Lecture, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (November 14, 2018)

• ‘Solar Power in South Korea’s Energy Mix and the Impact of Protectionism,’ Korea Economic Institute of America, Washington, DC USA (September 6, 2018)

• ‘Gaining Leverage on Gas: Analyzing Northeast Asian Collective Action in a Buyers Market for LNG,’ Panel on Global Energy Politics, ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA USA (April 4-7, 2018); Special Lecture, Hanyang University (May 21, 2018); KEEI Energy Experts Meeting, Seoul, South Korea (July 26, 2018); Asia Future Conference, Seoul, South Korea (August 25-26, 2018).

• ‘The Institutional Limits of the WTO in Resolving Cyber Theft: Addressing Method of Innovation and Extraterritoriality in the US-China Intellectual Property Conflict,’ Institute for Global Law & Policy: The Conference, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA USA (June 2-3, 2018)

• ‘China’s Expansion in the Middle East: Power Vacuum, Engagement, and Contest in the Divided Region’, Panel on Economy, Energy, and Resources, ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA USA (April 4-7, 2018)

• ‘Escalation in China’s Responses to U.S. Protectionist Pressures in Trade & Currency Conflict,’ US-China Relations, Seoul National University Asia Center, Seoul, South Korea (March 15, 2018) 

• ‘Chapter 1. Puzzle: Trade & Currency Conflict,’ IREA Colloquium (via Google Hangouts) (February 6, 2018)

• ‘East Asia-West Asia Energy Transactions: Past, Present and Future’, A Panel on the study of West Asia (서아시아 연구의 현황과 전망), Seoul National University Asia Center (December 15, 2017) 

• ‘アジアを結ぶ?「一帯一路」の地政学: The Geopolitics of the Belt and Road Initiative’, The 58th SGRA Forum, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan (November 18, 2017)

• ‘Strengthening the U.S.-ROK Alliance for Job Creation and Sustainable Development’, A Panel on Innovative Asia, Center for Innovation, Trade and Strategy of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) & The University of Seoul, South Korea (October 30, 2017)

• ‘China’s Industrial Espionage and the Escalation of the US-China IP Conflict’, Panel on Sources of Conflict: Territory and Technology, APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA (September 1, 2017)

• ‘Gaining Leverage on Energy: East Asia’s Bid for a Buyers Market in the Global Gas Game’, Asia Future Conference, Seoul, South Korea (August 24-28, 2019, scheduled); preliminary draft presented at the Trilateral Young Scholars/Research Exchange Program, Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat, Seoul, Korea (August 7-10, 2017)

• ‘Securing Energy from the Gulf amid Geopolitical Strife: Japan and South Korea’s Relations with the GCC in a New Energy Order’, Gulf Research Meeting, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom (August 1-4, 2017)

• ‘Looking West: Power Vacuum, Engagement and China’s Economic and Military Interests in the Middle East’, Association of Chinese Political Studies Annual Conference, Nankai University (June 10-11, 2017); ISA Asia-Pacific, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong (June 15-18, 2017)

• ‘The Rise of Protectionism in the West and Its Impact on the East’, keynote speech for FRAGOMEN APAC Immigration Conference: Conquering Tough Terrain, InterContinental, Singapore (June 6-8, 2017)

• ‘Theoretical Framework of Institutional Variance’, Wesleyan Workshop on East Asia, Middletown, CT USA (May 19-20, 2017)

• ‘Compromise and Losses in Multilateral Negotiations: The Iran Nuclear Deal and the Diminishing Petrodollar Dominance’, Political Economy Cluster Seminar, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore (May 11, 2017)

• ‘Trade & Currency Conflict: Northeast Asian States Responses to US Pressures’, Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan (January 18, 2017); School Research Seminar, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (April 13, 2017 FLYER)

• ‘Beyond Oil and the New Silk Road in the Middle East: China’s Geoeconomics Approach to Iran post-Sanctions’, The Hallsworth Conference on China and the Changing Global Order, University of Manchester & University of Warwick, United Kingdom (March 23-24, 2016 PROGRAMME)

• ‘Perennial Issues on North Korea: Missile Tests, Regime Stability, and US-China Relations’ with David Santoro and Carl Baker, Young Leaders Programme Singapore of the Pacific Forum CSIS,  Singapore (February 27, 2017 FLYER)

• ‘A Cautionary Tale: The Political Economy of Renminbi Internationalization: The U.S.-China Contest and the East Asian Regional Order in Finance’, CAG-GSEC Workshop, Keio University, Japan (January 16-17, 2017)

• ‘Unmaking South Korea’s Creative Economy: Chaebols and SMEs in the Global Patent Litigation’, Institute for Global Law & Policy Asian Regional Workshop, Harvard Law School, Bankok, Thailand (January 6-10, 2017)

• ‘China’s Indigenous Innovation and the Escalation of the US-China IP Conflict: The Case of the Pharmaceutical Industry in the TPP Era’, Association of Chinese Political Studies Annual Conference, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, USA (October 10-11, 2016)

• ‘National IP Policies and Pharma-Nationalism in the TPP Era: China and India’s Strategies as a Response to the Geopolitics of Intellectual Property Enforcement‘, Panel on Sino-Indian Relations: Economic Dimensions, ISA Asia-Pacific Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (June 25-27, 2016)

• ‘China’s Indigenous Innovation and the Escalation of the US-China IP Conflict’, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (May 24, 2016 FLYER)

• ‘The U.S.-China Divide in Intellectual Property and the TPP’, Young Leaders Programme Singapore of the Pacific Forum CSIS,  Singapore (November 18, 2015 FLYER)

• ‘The Next Trade Wars: The US-China Divide in Intellectual Property in the TPP Era’, American Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, USA (October 9-11, 2015)

• ‘Striking the 21st Century Trade Agreement: The Case of IP in the TPP and U.S.-Northeast Asian Trade Relations’, Asia Studies Fellowship Final Presentation, East-West Center in Washington (April 10, 2015 VIDEO)

• ‘Shifting Away from the WTO? Intellectual Property in the TPP and the TTIP’, Transatlantic Policy Symposium 2015, ‘Beyond Tariffs: Trade Relations and the Transatlantic Relationship in the 21st Century’, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University (February 6, 2015) (Paper Draft PDF)

• ‘Shifting Away from the WTO? Intellectual Property in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and the Case of China‘, Dupont Summit 2014 on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, The Historic Whittemore House, Washington DC (December 5, 2014)

• ‘Striking the ‘21st Century’ Trade Agreement: The Case of Intellectual Property Rights in the TPP Negotiations and U.S.-Northeast Asian Trade Relations’, Center for International Business Education and Research, School of Business, George Washington University (June 7, 2014)

• ‘Striking the 21st Century Trade Deal: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement – Perspectives from Japan and South Korea’, Korea Caucus & Japan Caucus Joint Seminar, The Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (November 21, 2013)

• Dissertation Ch.8 ‘The Change of Tides: The Future of U.S.-Northeast Asian Trade Wars and Currency Conflict’, 2013 ISA-Northeast Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (November 7-10, 2013)

• Dissertation Ch.7 ‘Wither Regional Bloc Formation? : The Prospects and Pitfalls of Trilateral Free Trade Agreement and Investment Treaty amongst China, Japan, and South Korea‘, Conference on Regional Leadership, Norms and Diversity: Comparing the Asia-Pacific with Europe, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (January 29-30, 2013) (Presentation Slides)
  

• Dissertation Ch.6 ‘Echoes of the Asian Financial Crisis in Reverse: Capital Controls and Currency Wars in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis’, The Tobin Project Democracy and Markets Graduate Student Forum, Cambridge, MA, USA (October 18, 2003); also presented at the GR:EEN-GEM PhD Summer School, ‘Squaring Multilateralism & Multipolarity – Multilateralizing the Emerging Multipolar World: Trends & Challenges’, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (August 20‐24, 2012) (Presentation Slides)

• Dissertation Ch.5 ‘Exchange Rate Policies as Responses to U.S. Currency Appreciation Pressures: The Japanese yen, the South Korean won, and the Chinese yuan, 1971-2013’,2014 International Studies Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada (March 26-29, 2014)

• Dissertation Ch.1 ‘Introduction: Defining Trade Wars and Currency Conflicts‘ & Dissertation Ch.2 ‘The Theoretical Framework: Political Capacity and Industrial Interests‘, Visiting Fellows Seminar, Rajawali Fellows Institute, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA (September 10, 2013) (Presentation Slides)

• ‘Dealing with the Open Economy Policy Trilemma? China’s Dream Agenda of Financial Reforms’, 2013 Association of Chinese Political Studies Annual Meeting and International Symposium, “China’s Domestic and International Relations: Expanding Reforms and Global Influence?”, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica (August 22-23, 2013)

• ‘U.S. Policies on Northeast Asian Countries: China, Japan, South Korea’, invited lecture for visiting Japanese students from Koushi High School, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, Boston University, Boston, USA (August 5, 2013)

• Dissertation Project ‘Trade Wars and Currency Conflict: China, Japan, and South Korea’s Responses to U.S. Protectionism, 1971-2013’, Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop, Social Science Research Council, Monterey, CA, USA (July 1-5, 2013)

• Dissertation Ch.3 ‘Recurring Cycles of Trade Protectionism from the GATT to the WTO: U.S. Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations on Trade with Japan, South Korea, and China’, 2013 International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA (April 3-6, 2013) (Presentation Slides); also presented at the PhD Dissertation Workshop in Global Political Economy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (April 24-26, 2013)

• Dissertation Ch.4 ‘Resorting to International Institutions to Resolve Trade Imbalances? U.S. Protectionism via GATT/WTO Dispute Initiation’, Section on International Political Economy, Session on WTO and International Trade Disputes, The Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, USA (April 12-15, 2012) (Presentation Slides)

• ‘Trade Imbalances, Financial Crises, and Currency Debates: 3 Decades of Stumbling Blocks to U.S.-Northeast Asian Economic Relations’, Panel on The Domestic Sources of Economic and Security Relations in the Asia-Pacific, 2012 International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, USA (April 1-4, 2012) (Presentation Slides); Revised version of the chapter, ‘Trade Imbalances, Financial Crises, and Currency Debates: 4 Decades of Stumbling Blocks to U.S.-Northeast Asian Economic Relations’, presented at the Harvard Contemporary Japanese Politics Study Group, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (December 14, 2012)

• ‘Legalization and China: The Politics of WTO Dispute Settlement in the Age of Trade Imbalances’, 2011 Association of Chinese Political Studies Conference, ‘China’s Accession to the WTO 10 Years Later: International Institutions and China’s Domestic and Foreign Policies’, College of Foreign Affairs University (外交学院), Beijing, China (October 22-23, 2011)

• ‘貿易不均衡の解消の為の国際機関の利用：GATT/WTOへの訴訟による米国の保護主義の発生’, Seminar Series, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance, Tokyo, Japan (October 14, 2011) (Presentation Slides)

• ‘Resorting to International Institutions to Resolve Trade Imbalances? U.S. Protectionism via GATT/WTO Dispute Initiation’, Social Science Dissertation Workshop, the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (September 29, 2011)

• ‘From ‘Cardinal Sin’ to Policy Agenda? The Role of Capital Controls in Emerging Market Economies: A Study of the Korean Case, 1997-2011′, Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Symposium, Korea Economic Institute of America, Washington, DC, USA (August 24, 2011) (Presentation Slides)

• ‘Trade Surpluses and Renminbi Internationalization: The Political Economy of China’s Quest for Key Currency’, 2011 Association of Chinese Political Studies Annual Meeting & International Symposium, ‘100 Years after the 1911 Revolution: Reflection and Forecasts’, King’s College, London, United Kingdom (June 17-19, 2011)

• ‘Bargaining for More: China’s Initiatives and Dilemmas for East Asian Free Trade in the era of Economic Partnership Agreements’, China’s Role in Global & Regional Governance, The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (March 10-11, 2011) (Presentation Slides)

• ‘The Influence of Global Trade Imbalances on Sovereign Wealth Funds: China’s SWFs under the view of U.S.-China Trade Imbalance’, The 16th International Conference of the Association of Chinese Professors of Humanities and Social Sciences in the United States, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (November 5-7, 2010); Revised version presented at the 2011 International Studies Association Annual Convention, Montréal, Canada (March 16-19, 2011)

• ‘The Politics of Economic Regionalization: China’s Initiatives for Soft Power in East Asia’, 2010 Association of Chinese Political Studies Annual Meeting & International Symposium, ‘China in Search of Sustainable Development, Social Harmony, and Soft Power’, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, USA (July 30-August 1, 2010) (Presentation Slides)

• ‘Bilateralism vs. Multilateralism: The Power Structures of Trade, Finance, Investment in Northeast Asia’, 2010 Midwest Political Science Association Annual National Conference, Chicago, USA (April 22-25, 2010)

• ‘The Roots of Stunted Legalism in Northeast Asia: The Domestic Politics of Regional Financial Cooperation since the Asian Financial Crisis’, 2010 International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, USA (February 17-20, 2010) (Presentation Slides)

• ‘Regional Investment since the Financial Crises: Sovereign Wealth Funds in East Asia (東アジアの政府系ファンド)’, The 4th Young Lions Boston Japanese Benkyokai, Boston University, Boston, USA (May 12, 2010) (Presentation Slides)

• ‘The Political Economy of Trade and Investment: The Impact of Sovereign Wealth Funds in Asset Markets in East Asia in the era of a Financial Crisis’, Harvard Conference of the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, Cambridge, USA (February 18-21, 2010)

• ‘Bilateralism vs. Multilateralism: Rethinking Japan’s Strategy for Trade and Investment in East Asia’ (「二国間主義と多国間主義：東アジアにおける日本の貿易・投資戦略の再検討」), The 3^rdYoung Lions Boston Japanese Benkyokai, Boston University, Boston, USA (December 23, 2009)

• ‘Implications of the Bilateral Swap Agreements in Northeast Asia: Regional Financial Cooperation in the era of a New Critical Juncture’, The 2^nd Young Lions Boston Japanese Benkyokai, Boston University, Boston, USA (May 2009)

• ‘China’s Rise among BRICs: Bridging the Gap Across the Asia-Pacific and Facilitating Regional Financial Cooperation and Trade’, roundtable on ‘Globalizing Economies: The Rise of BRICs in Relation to Japan and the U.S.’, The 61^st Japan-America Student Conference (日米学生会議), University of Washington, Seattle, USA/Tokyo, Japan (July-August 2009)

• ‘Financial Regionalism Reinvented? Financial Deregulation and Economic Reform in Japan and Vigilant Financial Regionalism in Northeast Asia’, Harvard Conference of the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, Cambridge, USA (February 2009)

• ‘Financial Deregulation and Economic Reform in Japan: Stagnation or Renewal of the Economy?’ 2009 International Studies Association Annual Convention, New York, USA (February 2009)

• ‘Implications of the Currency Swap Agreement in Northeast Asia: Regional Financial Cooperation in the era of a New Critical Juncture’, Panel on Regional Economy, Boston University Conference on East Asia, Boston, USA (February 2009)

• ‘The Evolution of China’s Relationship with the World Bank: From Debtor and Beneficiary to Partnership’, Session on Finance and Development’, The 17^th Northeast Asia Economic Forum Young Leaders Training and Research Program in Regional Cooperation and Development, Nankai University, Tianjin, China (October 2008)

• Discussant, Panel on ‘The Origins and Effects of International Law’, 2008 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, USA (August 2008)

• ‘Institutional Challenges of UN Sanctions: Legal Initiative of the United States’, 2008 Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, USA (April 2008)

• ‘State Compliance through legislation within International Institutions: Perspectives from Northeast Asia: China, South Korea, and Japan’, Toronto Group for the Study of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law, University of Toronto and Osgoode Law School, Toronto, Canada (January 2008)