BOOK MANUSCRIPT 

• TRADE WARS & CURRENCY CONFLICT: China, South Korea and Japan’s Responses to U.S. Pressures since the Global Financial Crisis, in progress

This work is supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2019S1A5B5A07106479) and is currently under review at a reputable university press.

• EUROPE’S CHALLENGES & RESPONSES: Between Faustian Bargains with China and U.S. Pressures since Brexit, in progress 

This work is intended for application to the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants between January 12-March 9, 2021. The potential host institution is WZB Berlin Social Science Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung).

PEER-REVIEWED (published)

• June Park and Eunbin Chung. “Learning from Past Pandemic Governance: Early Response and Public-Private Partnerships in Testing of COVID-19 in South Korea.” Pandemics, COVID-19, Sustainability and Development, World Development. 137 (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105198

• June Park and Troy Stangarone. “Trump’s America First Policy in Global and Historical Perspectives: Implications for US–East Asian Trade.” Asian Perspective 43, no. 1 (2019): 1-34. DOI: 10.1353/apr.2019.0000

PEER-REVIEWED (under review)

• June Park. “COVID-19, Contactless Economy and the Acceleration of Tech Wars: The U.S.-China Race for Supremacy in Artificial Intelligence Enforcing South Korea-Japan Chip Wars.” Under review, special issue, Asian Studies Review.

This paper is an outcome of the Korea Foundation-IAFOR project, 'Japan and Korea in China-U.S. Relations,' conducted with scholars in Singapore, South Korea, and Japan from 2019-2021.

• June Park. “High Tech and the Digital Divide in the COVID-19 Era: Semiconductors, 5G, AI and the Endgame of the U.S.-China Tech Conflict.” Under review, special issue, Business and Politics.

• June Park. “Governing a Pandemic with Data on the Contactless Path to Artificial Intelligence: Personal Data, Public Health, and the Digital Divide in South Korea, Europe and the United States in Tracking of COVID-19.” Under review, special issue, Partecipazione E Conflitto.

WORK IN PROGRESS

• June Park. “Proprietary Data for Medical Artificial Intelligence: Analyzing Patient Data with AI Tools for Testing, Tracing and Treatment of COVID-19 in South Korea.” (For submission to AI & Society)

• June Park. “The Role of U.S. Shale Gas in Trade Wars amid COVID-19: Comparing U.S. Pressures on Nord Stream 2 in Europe and Demands on LNG Sales to Asia.” (For submission to Energy Policy)

• June Park and Troy Stangarone. “‘From ‘Rules Maker’ to ‘Rules Taker’: The UK’s Policy Choice on Huawei amid Brexit in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” (For submission to International Affairs)

POLICY REPORTS

• June Park, Pamela Rizkallah and Ali Ahmad. A Decade Later: South Korea’s Nuclear Energy Exports to the Middle East, Middle East Nuclear Energy Monitor 2019, American University of Beirut. January 3, 2020. 

This policy report is an annual outcome of the project, 'Nuclear Power and the Middle East in 2025: Uncertainties & Opportunities' conducted by the Energy Policy and Security Program, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI), American University of Beirut (AUB), supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (G-1708-152348).

BOOK CHAPTERS

• (Forthcoming) June Park. 2021. ‘The Art of Evasion in the Contactless Economy: Cyber-hacking for Cryptocurrencies and Money Laundering by the DPRK under Existing Sanctions’ in Andrea Charron and Clara Portela eds., Multilateral Sanctions Dissected: Lessons Learned from Margaret Doxey. McGill-Queens University Press.

This edited book volume will be an outcome of a workshop on multilateral sanctions led by Dr. Andrea Charron of the University of Manitoba and Dr. Clara Portela of the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) to be convened online on February 12 and 26, 2021.

• (In press) June Park. 2020. ‘Institutions Matter in Fighting COVID-19: Public Health, Social Policies and the Control Tower in South Korea,’ in Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, André Peralta-Santos, and Elize Massard da Fonseca eds., Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19. University of Michigan Press. DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11927713

• June Park and Emma Ashford. 2018. ‘Securing Energy from the Gulf amid Geopolitical Strife: Japan and South Korea’s Relations with the GCC in a New Energy Order,’ in Tim Niblock, Talmiz Ahmad, and Degang Sun eds., The Gulf States, Asia and the Indian Ocean: Ensuring the Security of the Sea Lanes. Gerlach Press. DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv4ncp9p.7

This edited book volume is an outcome of the Gulf Research Meeting held at the Gulf Research Centre Cambridge, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 1-4, 2017.

• June Park. 2018. ‘A Cautionary Tale of Market Power and Foreign Policy: Beyond the Geoeconomics of Renminbi Internationalization,’ in Tomoo Kikuchi and Masaya Sakuragawa eds., China and Japan in the Global Economy. Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy.

This edited book volume is an outcome of the JSPS-NUS Joint Research Project 'The Asian Century and China-Japan Cooperation' via the CAG-GSEC Workshop held at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, January 16-17, 2017.

• June Park. 2012. ‘Bargaining for More: China’s Initiatives for Regional Free Trade in East Asia,‘ in Mingjiang Li ed., China Joins Global Governance: Cooperation and Contentions. Rowman & Littlefield.

This edited book volume is an outcome of the ‘China’s Role in Global & Regional Governance’ conference, The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, March 10-11, 2011.

POLICY JOURNAL ARTICLES

• June Park. ‘Taking Actions or Taking Risks: Responding to the U.S.-China High-Tech Decoupling and the Case of Digital Sovereign Currencies’ for the KEI Academic Paper Series – On Korea. (Under review)

• June Park. ‘Renewable Energy in Trade Wars: Solar Power in South Korea’s Energy Mix and the Impact of Protectionism,’ KEI Academic Paper Series – On Korea, Vol.12, January 2019. Korea Economic Institute of America. Washington, DC. Presentation Recording 

• June Park. ‘Striking the ‘21st Century’ Trade Agreement: The Case of Intellectual Property in the TPP Negotiations and U.S.-Northeast Asian Trade Relations,’ Asan Forum – Open Forum, Vol.3, No.4, August 2015. Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Seoul, South Korea.

• June Park. ‘From ‘Cardinal Sin’ to Policy Agenda? The Role of Capital Controls in Emerging Market Economies: A Study of the Korean Case, 1997-2011,’ 2011 Korea Economic Institute of America Emerging Scholars Special Edition of the Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies, March 2012. Korea Economic Institute of America. Washington, DC. Presentation Recording 

• June Park. ‘Resorting to International Institutions to Resolve Trade Imbalances? U.S. Protectionism via GATT/WTO Dispute Initiation’, December 2011, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance, Japan. (Presentation Slides, October 14, 2011)

This research project is an outcome of my dissertation fieldwork at the Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance, Japan from February to October, 2011.

• June Park. ‘Implications of the Bilateral Swap Agreements in Northeast Asia: Korea’s Role in Regional Financial Cooperation in the era of a New Critical Juncture’, Korea Policy Review, Vol. IV, July 2009. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.

POLICY BRIEFS

• June Park. ‘Tracking COVID-19 in the Age of AI and Tech Wars,’ Asia Pacific Bulletin, No.517, July 17, 2020. East-West Center in Washington. Presentation Recording 

This policy brief is a contribution to the 60 Minutes for the 60th Anniversary Alumni Seminar Series as alumna of the Asia Studies Fellowship Program at the East-West Center in Washington, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the ROK-EU Strategic Partnership.

• June Park. ‘South Korea’s Policy Choices in the TPP Era,’ Asia Pacific Bulletin, No. 307, April 9, 2015. East-West Center in Washington. Presentation Recording 

This policy brief is an outcome of the Asia Studies Fellowship Program at the East-West Center in Washington from January to April 2015.

BOOK REVIEWS

• June Park. Book Review of Kevin Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski, Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization《在房间里龙：中国和拉丁美洲工业化的未来》, Stanford University Press (2010) for the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (复旦人文社会科学论丛), Vol.8, No.2, May 2012. Fudan University. Shanghai, China.

• June Park. Book Review of Yasheng Huang, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State《有中国特色的资本主义》, Cambridge University Press (2008) for the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (复旦人文社会科学论丛), Vol.8, No.1, March 2012. Fudan University. Shanghai, China.

• June Park. Book Review of Emilian Kavalski eds., China and the Global Politics of Regionalization, The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series, Ashgate Books (2009) for the Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 17, No.1, March 2012. Springer. DOI:10.1007/s11366-011-9183-x

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION REPORTS

• ‘Report of the Economic and Social Development Group: Combine Our Efforts’ (PART II. Economic and Social Development), The 43^rd Graduate Study Programme, ‘The UN at 60: The Road Ahead’ United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office in Geneva, October 2005.