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Clint Work

Clint Work

Dr. Clint Work is fellow and director of Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI). KEI is registered under the FARA as an agent of the KIEP, a public corporation established by the government of the Republic of Korea. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Clint Work, Ph.D., is Fellow and Director of Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) and a Nonresident Fellow at the Stimson Center’s 38 North program.

His work is broadly focused on South Korea’s foreign and national security policy, political culture, U.S.-Korean relations, and U.S. foreign policy. More specifically, his doctoral research centers on U.S.-Korean relations under President Jimmy Carter and Carter’s abortive withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from South Korea. He has published his work in both academic and popular publications, including The Diplomat, Sino-NK, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, 38 North, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics’ “North Korea: Witness to Transformation” page.

Follow him on Twitter: @clintwork1.

Posts by Clint Work
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November 01, 2017

US, South Korean Defense Chiefs Meet Ahead of Trump Visit

By Clint Work
Main takeaways from the 49th Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) and 42nd Military Committee Meeting (MCM).
November 01, 2017

The Long History of South Korea's OPCON Debate

By Clint Work
President Moon has once again raised the issue of transferring OPCON to South Korea. What would that actually look like?

October 27, 2017

Is Myanmar Serious About Enforcing Sanctions on North Korea?

By Clint Work
Is this a real shift in North Korea-Myanmar relations, or just political expediency?

January 28, 2016

New Realities, Old Fears: Escalation on the Korean Peninsula

By Clint Work and Daniel A. Pinkston
When tensions rise, history illuminates U.S. and ROK fears of entrapment and abandonment.

November 10, 2015

Moral Hazard and the US-ROK Alliance

By Daniel A. Pinkston and Clint Work
As long as South Korea is embedded in America’s great power vision, certain issues will remain.
October 26, 2015

Park Geun-hye’s Visit and the US-ROK Alliance

By Daniel A. Pinkston and Clint Work
Where does the alliance stand after the South Korean president’s recent visit?

April 24, 2015

Korea and the New Regional Paradigm

By Clint Work
South Korea is at center stage of an emerging new paradigm in Northeast Asia.
July 09, 2014

South Korea: Dependence in the Age of OPCON

By Clint Work
The transfer of wartime operational control is part of larger questions about the US-ROK alliance.

March 26, 2014

North Korea & Human Rights: Tolerating the Intolerable

By Clint Work
With all its provocations and abuses, there is still only one realistic option for dealing with North Korea.

March 07, 2014

East Asia’s Discourse Problem

By Clint Work
The An Jung-geun memorial spat shows the problem of employing colonial monikers in a democratic age.

February 12, 2014

Cold War Structures and Tectonic Shifts

By Clint Work
Longstanding U.S. commitments to East Asia complicate an already complex region.
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