Myunghee Lee
Professor
Myunghee Lee's teaching and research interests include authoritarian politics, democratization, protest and foreign policy.
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Professor Lee's teaching and research interests include authoritarian politics, democratization, protest and foreign policy. Her regional focus is East Asia, particularly the Korean Peninsula and China.
She is currently working on a book project that examines predemocratization authoritarian education and post-democratization authoritarian legacies in South Korea and Poland. Her work appears in many prominent journals such as International Security, Journal of East Asian Studies, Politics and Gender,
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and International Studies Review. Before joining James Madison College, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen. Her research has been supported by the Korea Foundation and the Academy of Korean Studies.
Education
University of Missouri - Columbia: Ph.D., Political Science
Selected Press
Bricks in the wall: How North Korean textbooks indoctrinate support for regime
NK News | 2024-07-15
DPRK’s messages can shape defector resettlement in ROK, encouraging engagement but hampering understanding of democracy
Meet JMC's newest international relations faculty member
MSU Today | 2024-04-03
Myunghee Lee is an assistant professor of international studies in James Madison College. Lee's teaching and research interests include authoritarian politics, democratization, protest and foreign policy. Her regional focus is East Asia, particularly the Korean Peninsula and China.
President Yoon is lauded in West for embracing Japan − in South Korea it fits a conservative agenda that is proving less popular
The Conversation | 2024-03-06
When South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol broke out into an impromptu performance of the song “American Pie” at a gala White House dinner in 2023, it was more than just a musical interlude. It was symbolic of how on the big Indo-Pacific issues of the day, Washington and Seoul are singing from the same songbook.
But so, too, is Japan. And for South Korea’s karaoke-loving leader, that means humming a different tune to predecessors on the international stage – and risking hitting a sour note back at home.
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