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David C. Kang

Professor of Government
Adjunct Associate Professor at the Tuck School of Business
Research Director of the Center for International Business

Silsby 204
David.Kang@dartmouth.edu

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A.B., Anthropology and International Relations, Stanford University
M.A. and Ph.D., Political Science, UC Berkeley

Recent publications

  • China Reassures Asia: Information, Assymmetry, and International Relations, (under review).
  • "Cut From the Same Cloth: Bureaucracies and Rulers in south Korea, 1948-1979" in Yunshik chang and Steven Lee, eds., Towards Modernity: Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea, London: Routledge, 2006.
  • "Prospects of Ameliorating the Security Dilemma in Asia: The U.S. versus China and tensions among competing approaches" in Amitav Acharya and Evelyn Goh, eds., Approaches to Asian International Relations, Cambridge, MA: MIT University Press, 2006.
  • "Asia's High-Tech Nationalism," with Adam Segal, Far Eastern Economic Review, March-April 2006.
  • "South Korea and the U.S.: the real cause of problems in the alliance," Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 14, no. 2, 2006.
  • "China, the U.S., and Korea's Strategic Conundrum," International Journal of Korean Unification Studies 14, no. 2, 2006.
  • "Japan: U.S. Partner or Focused on Abductees?" The Washington Quarterly, Autumn 2005: 107-117.
  • "Why China's Rise will be Peaceful: Theory and Predictions in International Relations," Perspectives on Politics 3, no. 3: 551-54, Autumn 2005.
  • "Hierarchy in Asian International Relations: 1300 to 1900," Asian Security 1, no. 1, 53-79, 2005.
  • "Hierarchy, Balancing, and Empirical Puzzles in Asian International Relations," International Security, 28, No. 3, Winter 2004.
  • "The Theoretical Roots of Dominance and Rivalry in Asian International Relations," Australian Journal of International Affairs, 58, No. 3, September 2004.
  • "The Impact of Enron on Corporate Governance in Asia," Vermont Law Review, forthcoming.
  • "Bombard North Korea with ideas, not threats," Seattle Times, March 5, 2004.
  • Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies, co-authored with Victor Cha, Columbia University Press, 2003.
  • "Guarantee its security," New York Times, August 6, 2003.
  • "Transaction Costs and Crony Capitalism in East Asia," Comparative Politics 35 No. 4, July 2003.
  • "International relations theory and the Second Korean War," International Studies Quarterly 47, No. 3, September 2003.
  • "The Avoidable Crisis in North Korea," Orbis, Summer 2003.
  • "Getting Asia Wrong: the Need for New Analytic Frameworks," International Security 27, No. 4, Spring 2003.
  • Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines, Cambridge University Press, 2002.  Translated into Chinese, 2004.

Research interests

  • Political economy
  • Asian politics and business
  • International relations

Teaches

Last Updated: 5/24/07