Scholarship and debate are at the core of the Sino-NK enterprise. Sabine van Ameijden, the group’s Research Coordinator, brings out several abstracts given by our writers at recent conferences.
Tag Archive for ‘Steven Denney’
Charismatic Politics of Another Sort: Personality Politics in South Korea
In unconsolidated democracies with weak party institutions, charismatic political figures have a disproportionately higher level of influence compared to consolidated democracies. Ahn Cheol-soo is one such figure. Steven Denney explains.
[SinoNK Exclusive] North Korea Through the Lankov Prism: Welcome to “The Real North Korea”
A SinoNK exclusive cornucopia of perspectives on Dr. Andrei Lankov’s forthcoming book, “The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia.”
South Korea: The New Nationalism in an Era of Strength and Prosperity
SinoNK goes hunting for the new strand of assertive nationalism that has been slowly emerging in today’s era of “strong and prosperous” South Korea.
Between Metropole and Colony: Japanese Settlers, Liminality, and Korean Nationalism. A Review of Jun Uchida’s Brokers of Empire
Steven Denney takes on the history of Japanese colonial settlers, Korean collaboration, and contextualizes the DPRK’s view of itself as the pure and unadulterated nation.
Editor’s Note
A tour of SinoNK around the web, and its editors and analysts in action around the world.
The Public Sphere in South Korea: Kim Young-hwan on the National Security Act
Amplifying and analyzing critiques of South Korea made by human rights activist Kim Young-hwan at a Yonsei talk, Steven Denney takes on B.R. Myers and the history of the ROK.
