Sung-Hoon Jeh

Muhammad Athar Javed

Lee Jae-Young

Esmira Jafarova

Josef Janning

Travis Jones

Kim Jin-hyun

Hao Jiabei

Dhruva Jaishankar

Keyu Jin

Sung-Hoon Jeh

South Korea

Sung-Hoon Jeh graduated from the Department of Russian Studies and received his Master’s degree in Political Science at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS). He received a Ph.D. in Political Science at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU).

He was head of the Russia & Eurasia Team at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) and an expert member of the Presidential Committee on Northern Economic Cooperation of the Republic of Korea. Currently, he is a professor and head of the Department of Russian Studies at HUFS, and a policy adviser to the Ministry of Unification of the Republic of Korea. He also serves as the editor-in-chief of the academic journal “World and Eurasia”. His research interests are geopolitics, Russian foreign policy, and international relations in Eurasia.

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Opinions

European Security Crisis and East Asia

With the rejection of the proposed Treaty between the US and Russia on Security Guarantees and agreement on Measures to Ensure the Security of Russia and the Member States of NATO, both of which were sent by Russia as ultimatums in December 2021, US “arrogance” finally led to the European security crisis, writes Sung-Hoon Jeh, Head of the Department of Russian Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS)

07.03.2024

Opinions

Between Washington and Beijing: South Korea’s Diplomacy at a Crossroads

Contrary to South Korea’s expectations, the Korea-China summit expected to take place at the APEC summit in San Francisco on November 15-17, 2023 did not happen. President Xi Jinping held summits with the leaders of the US and Japan as well as several other countries, but he only shook hands and had a brief conversation with President Yoon Suk Yeol. Why did China turn a blind eye to the summit with South Korea?

21.12.2023

Opinions

Ukraine Crisis and South Korea

The Ukraine crisis is a confrontation between the US and Russia to take the initiative in the world order. In other words, it is a military conflict between the US, which is trying to prevent the emergence of a hegemonic state in the post-Soviet region in order to maintain a unipolar system at the global level, and Russia, which is trying to become a hegemonic state in the post-Soviet region in order to help establish a multipolar system at the global level.

11.08.2023

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