JUN-HYEOK KWAK, Ph.D

Professor & Yixian Scholar of the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University

Head of Political Philosophy and Ethics, the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai)

General Editor of the Routledge Series of Political Theories in East Asian Context

Co-editor of Journal of Social and Political Philosophy

Email: jhkwak@mail.sysu.edu.cn, junkwak0512@gmail.com

EDUCATION

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

PhD (August 2002) and MA (Qualified 1996) in Political Science

            Fields in Political Philosophy and Comparative Political Philosophy

Dissertation: “Managing Political Transformation: On ‘Revolution’ in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy”

• 1999 & 2000 Lynde and Harry Bradley Dissertation Fellowship
• Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 1998.
• Committee Members: Nathan Tarcov (Chair), Charles Larmore, William Sewell Jr., Hanna H Gray

Korea University, Seoul, Korea

MA in Political Science, February 1993

BA in Political Science, February 1991  

APPOINTMENTS 

Yixian (逸仙) Scholar, Sun Yat-sen University, China

January 2024 – Current

Co-editor, The Journal of Social and Political Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press

September 2021-Current

Head, Political Philosophy and Ethics, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University,

China, March 2021 – Current

Professor, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, China

March 2016 – Current

General Editor, Routledge Series of Political Theories in East Asian Context. 

February 2011 – Current

Co-Director, Institute for Values and Ethics, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea.

March 2013 – February 2016

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science & International Relations, Korea University.

January 2010 – February 2013

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science & International Relations, Korea University.

September 2007 – December 2009

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea.

February 2005 – August 2007.

Visiting Fellow, Social and Political Theory at European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy.

June 2006 – August 2006.

Visiting Professor, Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia, Universita di Bologna, Italy.

December 2005 – February 2006.

Research Assistant Professor, Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University.

September 2003 – January 2005 

Post-doc & Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago.

September 2002 – August 2003

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs:

Machiavelli and Republican Leadership: Conflict, Innovation, and Education of Potential Tyrants (Routledge, forthcoming, 2025)

Machiavelli’s Silence (Korean, Seoul: Kachi, forthcoming, 2025)

《一个现实主义者的非支配梦想》（Chinese, Re-reading Machiavelli）华东师范大学出版社(forthcoming, 2024)

《西方政治哲学导论》（Chinese, Introduction to Western Political Philosophy）中国社会科学出版社 (Beijing: 2023). ISBN:9787522716091

Political Philosophy I & II (Korean, Two Volumes, Korea, Seoul, Minumsa, 2016). ISBN: 9788937433009 & 9788937433016

Re-Reading Machiavelli, Realist with Imagination (Korean, Seoul, Minumsa, 2014). ISBN: 9788937487996

50. Awarded by the National Academy of Sciences for the Excellent Scholarly Book in 2015.

Domination and Non-domination, Reading Machiavelli’s Il Principe (Korean, Seoul: Minumsa, 2013).

ISBN: 9788937488139

50. Awarded by the National Academy of Sciences for the Excellent Scholarly Book in 2014.

Beyond Border and Prejudice: Interviews with Contemporary Political Theorists (Korean, Paju: Hangilsa, 2010). ISBN: 9788935662210

50. Winner of 2011 Best Book Award for the Humanities, Ministry of Culture and Tourism in South Korea.

Co-authored Books:

Lectures on Classics, with Jangjip Choi et al (Seoul: Minumsa, 2018). ISBN: 9788937436611

Challenges of Public Society, with Jungin Kang et al (Seoul: Minumsa, 2016). ISBN: 9788937457272

Edited Books: 

Relationality across East and West, with Ken Cheng (Routledge, forthcoming, 2024).

Modernities in Northeast Asia, with Ken Cheng (Routledge, 2023). ISBN: 978-1032505602

Machiavelli in Northeast Asia (Routledge, 2022 & Paperback Edition 2024). ISBN: 978-1032256917

Global Justice in East Asia, with Hugo El Kholi (Routledge, 2020 & Paperback Edition 2021). ISBN: 0367280981

Leo Strauss in Northeast Asia, with Sungwoo Park (Routledge, 2019 & Paperback Edition 2021). ISBN: 978-0367210977

Republicanism in Northeast Asia, with Leigh Jenco (Routledge 2015 & Paperback Edition 2017).

ISBN:978-0-415-74668-7 

Patriotism in East Asia, with Koichiro Matsuda (Routledge 2015 & Paperback Edition 2017).

ISBN: 978-0-415-73715-9

Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asian Context, with Melissa Nobles

(Routledge 2013 & Paperback Edition 2019). ISBN: 9780415535694

Still Nationalism? An Intellectual History of Patriotism, with Hongsik Cho (Korean, Paju: Hangilsa, 2012).

ISBN: 9788935662364

Entangled Modernities, with Henry Em (Korean, Seoul: Humanitas, 2009). ISBN: 9788964371046

Translations: 

The Prince, trans. Jun-Hyeok Kwak (Korean, Seoul: Minumsa. Forthcoming, 2025): Funded by the Ministry

of Foreign Affairs, Italy.

Just Freedom, translated with Cheyoung Yoon (Korean, Paju: Hangilsa 2019: Originally published by Philip

Pettit, Norton 2014). ISBN: 9788935668069).

Neo-Republicanism, trans. Jun-Hyeok Kwak (Korean, Paju: Nanam 2012: Originally published by Philip

Pettit, Oxford University Press 1997) ISBN: 9788930085465

50. Granted by Korea Research Foundation for the translation in 2007 (KRF-2007-B00003).

The Principles of Representative Government, trans. Jun-Hyeok Kwak (Korean, Seoul: Humanitas 2004:

Originally published by Bernard Manin, New York: Cambridge 1997) ISBN: 8990107060

50. Winner of 2004 Good Book Award, Korea Publication Ethics Commission.

Book Chapters: 

“Relationality without Hierarchy: Hong Daeyong’s Reappraisal of Tianxia,” in Tianxia in Comparative Perspective: Alternative Models of Geopolitical Order, edited by Roger Ames, Sor-hoon Tan, and Y. H. Yang (University of Hawaii Press, 2023), 21-38.

“Overcoming Victimhood: Forward Looking Apology with Reciprocal Nondomination,’ in As Aporia, Reconciliation and Justice, edited by Naoyuki Umemori (Akashi Shoten, 2023), 337-369. Japanese

“Introduction: Modernities in Northeast Asia,” coauthored by Ken Cheng in Modernities in Northeast Asia, edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Ken Cheng (Routledge, 2023), 3-16.

“Introduction: Machiavelli and Northeast Asia,” in Machiavelli in Northeast Asia, edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak (Routledge, 2022), 3-13.

“Reappraisal of Tianxia with Non-domination.” In Global Justice in East Asia, edited by Hugo El Kholi and Jun-Hyeok Kwak (Routledge, 2020), 158-170.

 “Reception of Leo Strauss in Northeast Asia.” In Leo Strauss in East Asia, edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Sungwoo Park (Routledge, 2019), 3-12.

“Religious Nationalism and Non-domination: Ahn Changho’s Cosmopolitan Patriotism.” In Religion and Nationalism in Asia, edited by Giorgio Shani and Takash Kibe (Routledge, 2019), 124-138.

“Non-domination and Shame culture: reconsidering criminal punishment in republicanism.” In Republicanism in Northeast Asia, ed. Jun-Hyeok Kwak & Leigh Jenco (London: Routledge, 2017), 39-53.

“Patriotism and nationalism: ‘republican patriotism’ in the Northeast Asian context.” In Patriotism in East Asia, ed. Jun-Hyeok Kwak & Koichiro Mastuda (London: Routledge, 2017), 28-46.

“Classical Meanings of Citizenship.” In Global Citizenship and Global Governance, ed. Jae-chang Park et al. (Hong Kong: YMCA, 2011).

“Political Philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli.” In Understanding Human Beings through Classics, ed. Jung-kyu Choi et al. (Taegu: Kyungpook National University Press, March 2010). Korean 

“Contemporary Appropriations of Republicanism.” In Political Science Handbook 2, Vol. 1. ed. The Korean Political Science Association et al.  (Seoul: Bupmunsa, 2008). Korean

“Republicanism,” In Political Science Handbook 1, Vol. 1, ed. The Korean Political Science Association et al. (Seoul: Bupmunsa, 2007). Korean

Peer-reviewed Articles:  

“Prudent Leadership: Machiavelli’s Thought on Conflict in the Discourses on Livy,” Wuda Philosophical Review, co-authored with Jintao PENG, 33(1): 1-22 (2024) [CSSCI] Chinese

“Individuality with Relationality: Ahn Changho’s Modern Transvaluation of Confucianism.” Philosophy East and West, 73(3): 677-697 (2023) [A&HCI]

“A Confucian Reappraisal of Christian Love: Ahn Changho Contra Augustinian Studies Conducted in South Korea.” Religions, 14(6): 177 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14060777 [A&HCI]

“Non-domination with Nothingness: Supplementing Pettit’s Theory of Democratic Deliberation.” Journal of Social and Political Philosophy, 2(1): 60-77 (2023)

“Reconsidering Pandemic Nationalism: Civil Compliance in Times of Crisis.” The Journal of International Studies, coauthored with Jiawen Li, 43(4), 31-48 (2022). [CSSCI] Chinese

            中国人民大学复印报刊资料《伦理学》2023年第1期全文转载

“Confucian Role-Ethics with Non-Domination: Civil Compliance in Times of Crisis.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 25: 199-213 (2022). [A&HCI]

“Non-domination and Neo-Roman Republicanism,” coauthored with Philip Pettit, translated by Mengxiao Huang, Journal of the History of Political Thought, 13(2): 1-17 (2022). [CSSCI] Chinese

“Interview with Philip Pettit: Neo-Roman Republicanism and Northeast Asia,” with Philip Pettit

Comparative Political Theory, 2(1): 52-68 (2022).

“Reciprocal Non-domination: A Critique of Pettit’s Theory of Democratic Deliberation.” Journal of Sichuan

University, 237(6), 20-29 (2021). [CSSCI] Chinese 中国人民大学复印报刊资料《政治学》2022年第2期全文转载

“Deliberation with Persuasion: the ‘political’ in Aristotle’s Politics.” Australian Journal of Political Science,

56(3), 318-333 (2021). [SSCI]

“Overcoming Victimhood: Forward-looking Apology with Reciprocal Non-domination,” Korean Journal of

Political Science, 29(3): 245-274 (2021). [KSSCI] 

“On Aristotle’s Political Friendship: A Republican Reconsideration,” co-authored with HUANG Mengxiao,

Study and Exploration, 309(4): 56-63 (2021). [CSSCI] Chinese

“Global Justice without Self-Centrism: Tianxia in Dialogues on Mount Uisan.” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 20(2): 289-307 (2021). [A&HCI]

“Sociopolitical Conditions for the Common Good with Diversity: On Pettit’s Just Freedom,”. China Scholarship, 42:404-411 (2021). [CSSCI] Chinese

“Republican Liberation and Non-domination: Democratic Republicanism and the March First Movement.” Korea Observer, 50(2): 269-286 (2019). [SSCI] 

“Aristotle's Conception of Citizen Rights: A Critique of Fred Miller,” Morality and Civilization, the first author, coauthored with Mengxiao Huang, 220(3): 108-117 (2019) [CSSCI] Chinese

“Global Citizenship: An Interpretation in Classical Republicanism,” The Journal of International Studies, the first author, coauthored with Mengxiao Huang, 40(1): 97-116 (2019) [CSSCI] Chinese

            中国人民大学复印报刊资料《政治学》2019年第7期全文转载

“Democratic Leadership: Machiavelli and Populist Republicanism,” Journal of the History of Political Thought, translated by Runjie Ou, 10(1): 160-185 (2019). [CSSCI] Chinese

“Republican Patriotism and Machiavelli’s Patriotism, Australian Journal of Political Science, 52(3): 436-449 (2017). [SSCI]

“Reciprocal Non-domination: Machiavelli contra Neo-Roman Republicanism,” Journal of the History of Political Thought, 6(2): 73-94 (2015). [CSSCI] Chinese

“Reciprocal Non-domination and Historical Reconciliation,” Waseda Asia Review, 15:35-41 (2014). Japanese

“Non-dominative Leadership: Re-appropriation of Pedagogical Rhetoric in Machiavelli’s The Prince,” Korean Political Science Review, 47(5): 27-50 (2013). [KSSCI] Korean

“Nationalism and Democracy Revisited: The Limits of Democratic Nationalism in South Korea,” The Korean Journal of International Studies, 11(1): 143-171 (2013). [KSSCI] 

“Leo Strauss’s On Tyranny and Machiavelli’s Patriotism.” The Korean Review of Political Thought, 20(2): 1-21 (2012). [KSSCI] Korean

“Liberal Neutrality and Agonistic Politics: The Judicial Review of the Constitutional Court Reconsidered,” with Seung-Hun Hong, Korean Political Science Review, 44(5): 1-27 (2010). [KSSCI] 

“Consequential Paternalism: Reconsidering the Leadership of Park Chung-Hee,” National Strategy, 16(4): 5-31 (2010). [KSSCI] Korean

“The Candlelight Vigils in South Korea: Neoliberal Protestors with National-Democratic Discourses,” with Gye-won Jo, Korean Journal of Political Science, 18(2): 291-315 (2010). [KSSCI] 

“Reconsidering the Comfort Women Case: Inherited Responsibility as Civic Responsibility,” Korea Observer, 41(3): 329-349 (2010). [SSCI] 

“Politics of Aspiration: Machiavelli and Classical Republicanism,” Japanese Journal of Political Thought, 10: 153-182 (2010). Japanese

“Coexistence without Principle: Reconsidering Multicultural Policies in Japan,” Pacific Focus, 24(2): 161-186 (2009). [SSCI] 

“Human Rights and Republicanism,” The Korean Review of Political Thought, 15(1): 33-55 (2009). [KSSCI] Korean

“Civic Responsibility: Classical Republicanism and Citizenship,” Korean Journal of Political Science, 16(2): 127-149 (2008). [KSSCI] Korean

“Domination through Subordination: Yi Kwangsu’s Colonial Collaboration,” Korea Observer, 39(3): 427-452 (2008). [SSCI]

“On Authority in Machiavelli’s Discourses,” Korean Political Science Review, 42(2): 23-44 (2008). [KSSCI] Korean

“Why and Which Republicanism?” The Journal of Asiatic Studies, 51(2): 133-163 (2008). [KSSCI] Korean

“Cicero’s Classical Republicanism,” The Korean Review of Political Thought, 13(2): 132-154 (2007). [KSSCI] Korean

“Political Rhetoric and Democratic Leadership: Unpacking Aristotle’s Rhetoric,” National Strategy, 13(1): 41-65 (2007). [KSSCI] Korean

“Democratic Leadership: Machiavelli supplementing Populist Republicanism,” Korean Journal of Political Science, 14(3): 115-142 (2007). [KSSCI] 

“Multicultural Coexistence and Social Integration,” Korean Journal of Political Science, 15(2): 23-41 (2007). [KSSCI] Korean

“Reconsidering Judicial Review: Constitutional Adjudication and Reciprocal Non-domination,” Korean Political Science Review, 40(4): 1-25 (2007). [KSSCI] Korean

“Democracy and Republicanism: Two Principles of Constitutional Framework,” Korean Political Science Review, 39(3): 33-57 (2005). [KSSCI] Korean

“Deliberative Democracy and Reciprocal Non-domination,” National Strategy, 11(2): 141-168 (2005). [KSSCI] Korean

“The Politics of Domination: Yi Kwangsu and Nationalism,” Japanese Journal of Political Thought, 5: 17-35 (2005). Japanese

“Non-domination and Contestability: Machiavelli contra Neo-Roman Republicanism,” Korean Political Science Review, 38(4): 219-239 (2004). [KSSCI]

“Rhetorical Meanings of Political Change in Machiavelli’s Discorsi,” Korean Political Science Review, 38 (3): 29-53 (2004). [KSSCI] Korean

“National Identity and Democratic Citizenship: the Principle of Liberty as Non-domination in the Global Era,” Social Science Studies, 12(2):34-66 (2004). [KSSCI] Korean

“Patriotism without Nationalism and the Peace Principle of Non-domination,” The Journal of Asiatic Studies, 46(4): 311-340 (2003). [KSSCI] Korean 

“On Conflict in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy,” The Korean Review of Political Thought, 9: 171-194 (2003). [KSSCI] Korean

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Family-hood with Non-domination: A Republican Reappraisal of Confucian Views of Caring Relationality,” International Symposium of Comparative Political Philosophy, Wuhan University, China, July 22-23, 2024.

“Relational Non-domination: Supplementing the Neo-roman Republican Views of Civility,” 31st World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Seoul, Korea. July 7-July 12, 2024.

“Inclusive Shame for Peaceful Coexistence: Historical Reconciliation with Reciprocal Non-domination.” Asian Political and International Studies Association Annual Congress 2023. Merdeka Tower Business Center, Warmadewa College, Denpasar, Indonesia. June 29-July 1. 2023.

“Christian Love with Confucian Filial Piety: Ahn Changho contra Augustinian Studies in South Korea.” American Southern Political Science Association, Summer Virtual Meeting 2023, June 16-17. 2023

“Religion and Nationalism: Ahn Changho’s Cosmopolitan Patriotism.” International Political Science Association RC 43 Colloquium “The Nation as a Sacred Community.” Queens’ University Belfast, UK, May 31, 2023.

“Non-domination with Relationality: A Critique of Pettit’s Theory of Democratic Deliberation.” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, April 8, 2022.

“Confucian Role-Ethics with Non-Domination: Civil Compliance in Times of Crisis.” Swiss Political Science Association Annual Meeting, University of Lausanne, February 3, 2022.

“Religious Nationalism and Non-domination,” 26th World Congress of Political Science, International Political Science Association, Lisbon, July 10-15, 2021.

“Global justice without a Center: HONG Daeyong’s Reappraisal of Tianxia,” Tianxia in Comparative Perspective: Alternative Models of Geo-political Order, Berggruen Research Center, Peking University, April 17-28, 2021.

“Deliberation and Persuasion: the ‘Political’ in Aristotle’s Politics,” Phenomenology and the ‘Political’ Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 8-12, 2019

“Reappraisal of Tianxia with Non-domination,” Rethinking Global Political Thought, Narratives of Order Workshop, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, May 25, 2018

“Politics of Shame: Historical Reconciliation and Nationalist Interpellation in the Northeast Asia,” ISA Annual Meeting, University of Hong Kong, June 17, 2017

“Historical Reconciliation with Reciprocal Non-domination: A forward-looking approach to inherited responsibility in the North East Asia,” ISA Asia-Pacific, City University of Hong Kong, June 25, 2016

“Religious Nationalism with Reciprocal Non-domination: Ahn Changho’s Humanitarian Cosmopolitanism,” The International Symposium of Beyond Nationalism? Peace-building and Religion in Asia and Europe, held by the Institute of Global Concern at Sophia University, Japan, December 22, 2014.

“Amorphous Comparative Political Theory: Another Journey beyond East and West,” Future of the History of Idea Conference, the University of Sydney, August 11-12, 2014.

“Niccolo Machiavelli and “Republican Patriotism,”” Quincentenary Celebration of The Prince International Symposium, organized by Tianjin Normal University, May 25-26, 2013

“Non-domination and “Shame” Culture: Reconsidering Criminal Punishment in Republicanism,” The SSK Joint Workshop, Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, December 2012.

“Leo Strauss’s Thoughts on Tyranny and Korean Society.” The Routledge Series of Political Theories in East Asian Context Workshop, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, September 14 2012.

“Republican Patriotism in Northeast Asian Context.” The Joint Conference of Civil Society Research Group, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, December 2011.

“Deliberative Democracy with Reciprocal Non-domination: Making Non-domination a Regulative Principle.” the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2011.

“Historical Reconciliation and Reciprocal Non-domination: Reconsidering Inherited Responsibility in the Comfort Women Case,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., September 2010.

“Democratic Leadership: Machiavelli’s Interpretation of the Gracchi in Discorsi,” the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2010.

“Liberal Neutrality and Agonistic Politics: The Judicial Review of the Korean Constitutional Court Reconsidered,” the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2010.

“Global Citizenship with Civic Responsibility,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, September 2009.

“Two Nationalisms in South Korea,” the World Congress for Korean Politics, Korean Political Science Association, August 2009.

“Political Agency without Civic Responsibility,” the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2009

“Republican Constitutionalism and East Asian Values,” the Joint Conference of Korean & Japanese Political Thought Associations, Tokyo, June 2007.

“Democratic Leadership: the Ciompi Revolt of 1378 in Machiavelli’s Istorie Fiorentine,” International Political Science Association World Conference, Fukuoka, July 2006.

“Ambiguous Civil Society in Post-Democracy of South Korea," Asian Conference on Democracy and Electoral Reforms, Manila, Philippines, November 2004. 

“On Leadership: An Interpretation of Book 1, Chapter 37 in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy,” the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2000.

“Interaction Between Ideological Constraint and Human Practice: the Democratization of South Korea in 1987,” the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 1999.

SELECTED INVITED TALKS

“Machiavelli’s Republicanism and Republican Leadership,” Wuhan Summer School of Political Philosophy, Wuhan University, China, July 19, 2024.

“Shame and Civility,” The Rikkyo Political Studies Workshop, Department of Law, Rikkyo University, June 25, 2024.  

“Political Emotion and Democratic Civility: Taming Public Shamelessness in the Age of Discontent,” Global Asia Research Center’s Lecture Series, Waseda University, June 24, 2024.

“Confucian Political Thoughts and Political Philosophy: Focusing on Individuality with Relationality,” Naver Open Forum: Today’s World, Korea, August 12, 2023.

“Socratic Machiavelli and His Republicanism,” International Philosophy Summer School, Fudan University, China, August 5-6, 2023. 

“Inclusive Shame and Historical Reconciliation,” Lecture Series of Global Asia Research Center, Waseda University, Japan, July 19-21, 2023.

“Historical Reconciliation with Reciprocal Non-domination,” Political Philosophy Research Seminar, Government, London School of Economy and Political Science, UK, November 28, 2019.

“Deliberation and Persuasion: The ‘Political’ in Aristotle’s Politics,” Political Philosophy Lecture, Peking University, China, September 25, 2019.

“Global Justice without a Center: Reappraisal of ‘Tianxia’ with Non-domination,” Current Project Seminar, University of Sydney, Australia, March 21, 2019.

“Historical Injustice and Inherited Responsibility,” Political Theory Workshop, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK, November 2, 2018

“New Cosmopolitanism: Global Justice with Reciprocal Non-domination,” Rikkyo Political Studies Workshop, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, June 1, 2018.

“Machiavelli and Republicanism,” Ludao Philosophical Forum, Huaqiao University, China, April 13, 2018

“Republican Patriotism,” Global Asia Lecture at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, January 18, 2018.

“Historical Reconciliation with Reciprocal Non-domination,” FAH/PHIL Guest Lecture, the University of Macau, China, April 7, 2017

“Patriotism,” Naver Open Forum: Culture Inside and Outside, Korea. August 19, 2016

“Republicanism,” Education Broadcasting System, Korea, June 14, 2016 [Televised nationwide in South Korea]

“Machiavelli and Us: Democratic Leadership,” AFP Program, Seoul National University, Korea, April 25, 2016

“Machiavelli,” Naver Open Forum: Culture Inside and Outside, Korea. September 5, 2015 

“Liberty as Non-domination for Social Justices,” the Lecture of Forum on Ethics, Renmin University, China, October 13, 2014.

“Machiavelli & Us: Revisiting Democratic Leadership,” Political Philosophy Lecture, Tianjin Normal University, China, 13 June 2014.

“Deliberative Democracy with Reciprocal Non-domination,” Philosophy Workshop, Nankai University, China, 12 June 2014.

“Historical Reconciliation with Reciprocal Non-domination: A Forward-looking Approach to Inherited Responsibility in the Northeast Asia,” the Open lecture of the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), ICU, Tokyo, Japan, 7 November 2013.

“Historical Reconciliation and Inherited Responsibility,” the 75th Asia Seminar, Waseda University. Japan, June 2013.

“Republicanism in East Asian Context,” Philosophy Workshop, Nankai University, Japan, May 23, 2013

“Nationalism and Democracy Revisited: The Strange Hollowness of Civil Society in South Korea,” Forum of the Department of Law, Rikkyo University, Japan, November 8, 2012.

“Niccolo Machiavelli and Republican Patriotism in East Asian Context,” the Center for European Studies Lecture, Peking University, China, October 17, 2012.   

“Democratic Nationalism with Reciprocal Non-domination: Nationalisms and the Democratization of South Korea in the 1980s,” Workshop at the Department of Sociology. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, February 2011.

“Multicultural Coexistence and East Asian Community,” Migration and Multiculturalism Workshop, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, December 2010.

“Historical Reconciliation and Inherited Responsibility,” 2009 International Colloquium, Waseda University, Japan, December 2009.

“Global Citizenship with Civic Responsibility,” YMCA Forum on Global Citizenship, Tokyo, Japan, October 2008.

“Judicial Review and Republican Constitutionalism,” the 66th Monthly Meeting of the Association for the Study on Constitution, the Constitutional Court of Korea, Korea, June 2006.

“A Democratic Commonality before Burgeoning Civil Society,” at Seminario di Dipartimento, Sala di Lettura, Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia, at the University of Bologna, Italy, January 2006.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES and SERVICES

At Sun Yat-sen University: 

• Yixian Scholar, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), January 2024 – present.
• Head of Political Philosophy & Ethics, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), March 2021 – present.
• Director of Political Philosophy Workshop, Comparative Philosophy Workshop, and Global Justice Workshop, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), March 2016 – present.
• One Hundred Talented Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, March 2016 – February 2021.
• Director of English Curriculum, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), March 2016 – February 2021.
• Deputy of the Faculty at the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, September 2016 - present.
• Member, Search Committee, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), March 2016 – present.
• Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), March 2016 – present
• Member, Evaluation Committee, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), March 2016 – present.

At Korea University: 

• Deputy Director, Social Science Korea Civic Solidarity Research Group, August 2010 – July 2012.
• Director, Center for Political Theory, Peace and Democracy Institute, April 2010- January 2011.
• Chief Editor, the Journal of Asiatic Studies, September 2007- March 2010
• Member, General Education Committee, Korea University, July 2009- January 2011

• Entrusted with redesigning undergraduate-level course descriptions and requirements for general education

• Member, Examination Committee, Korea University, 2008-2009

• Contributed to setting the Entrance Examination of Korea University 

• Head, The First Division of Humanity Korea Project at the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, September 2008 – March 2010.

External Services and Activities: 

• Vice President, The Korean Political Science Association, March 2020-Feburary 2021.
• Vice President, East Asian Association of International Studies, March 2017-March 2018.
• Academic Advisor, Historical Reconciliation, Waseda University, March 2013-Present
• Chair of Editorial Board, Aporia Review of Books, Seoul, Korea, September 2013 – August 2015.
• Columnist, Kyunghang Daily Newspaper, South Korea, May 2013 – August 2013.
• Editorial Board Member, The Korean Review of Political Thought, 2004-2010.
• Director, EAI Center for Values and Ethics, October 2009 – December 2010.
• Columnist, Donga Daily Newspaper, South Korea, January 2010 – June 2010.
• Coordinator of LEET Examination Committee, Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, 2008-2009

• LEET is LSAT Korea.

• Member of PSAT Examination Committee, Ministry of Public Administration and Security, Korea, 2004-2009.  
• Member, Presidential Evaluation Committee on Two Years of Roh Moo-Hyun Presidency, Korea, October 2004 – February 2005.

AWARDS

The Yixian (孫逸仙) Excellent Scholar Award, Sun Yat-sen University, 2024

First-Class Course Award, Key Issues in Political Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, 2022

Excellent Teaching Award, Undergraduate Teaching, Sun Yat-sen University, 2021

Excellent Service Award, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, 2020.

The Excellent Scholarly Book Award, Re-reading Machiavelli (2014), the National Academy of Sciences, South Korea, 2015.

The Premi e contribute per la traduzione, Machiavelli’s Il Principe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy, 2014.

The Excellent Scholarly Book Award, Domination & Non-domination (2013), the Ministry of Culture Tourism, South Korea, 2014.

The Excellent Scholarly Book Award, Neo-Republicanism (translation, 2012), the National Academy of Sciences, South Korea, 2012.

The Best Book Award for the Humanities, Beyond Border and Prejudice (2010), Ministry of Culture Tourism, South Korea, 2011.  

Excellent Teaching Award, Korea University, for the best lecture evaluated by registered students, 2008.

Good Idea Award, National Research Foundation, for the scholarly collaboration and network, 2007.

Excellent Teaching Award, Korea University, for the best lecture evaluated by registered students, 2005.

Excellent Teaching Award, Korea University, for the best lecture evaluated by registered students, 2004.

FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS [In Charge]

English Curriculum Building Project for Graduate Students, funded by Sun Yat-sen University, 2024-2026 (RMB 30,000: approx. $4,000 USD).

One Belt & One Road Initiative Project, Different Paths of Modernity and Their Relevance to Politics and Peaceful Coexistence in Northeast Asia, funded by the Institute for One Belt & One Road Initiative at Sun Yat-sen University, 2019-2022 (RMB 300,000: approx. $ 45,000 USD)

English Curriculum Reformation Project, funded by the Education Department, Sun Yat-sen University, 2018-2020 (RMB 120,000: approx. $18,000 USD).

The Ministry of Education Research Fund in China, Civic Virtue and Global Justice in East Asia, 2017-2019 (RMB 100,000: approx. $15,000 USD).  

English Backbone Curriculum Project, funded by the Education Department, Sun Yat-sen University, 2016-2018 (RMB 500,000: approx. $75,000 USD).

100 Hundred Talented Professor Research Fund, funded by Sun Yat-sen University, 2016-2021 (RMB 500,000: approx. $72,000 USD).

Contributi per la traduzione di opere letterarie e scientifiche italiane, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Study of Machiavelli, Italy, 2014 (KRW 10,000,000: approx. $ 10,000 USD).

SK Research Grant, funded by SK Corporation for the Routledge Series of Political Theories in East Asian Context, 2012-2013 (approx. $ 20,000 USD).

Social Science Korea Grant, funded by the National Research Foundation for the scholarly collaboration on “Civic Solidarity: In Search of a Korean Model for Social Integration,” with Professor Gil-sung Park and Professor Man-sup Park, 2010-2013 (NRF-2010-330-B00151, KRW 94,000,000 per a year; approx. $ 94,000 USD).

Basic Research Grant for Research Group, funded by the National Research Foundation for the basic research group on imperative current issues. Sole Project Manager for “Multicultural Coexistence and East Asian Community 2010 (NRF-2010-B00009, KRW 150,000,000 per a year; approx. $ 150,000 USD).

Research Grant for Military Education, funded by the Ministry of National Defense in South Korea. Sole Principal Investigator for research project, “Patriotism and Military Ethics,” 2010 (KRW 40,000,000; approx. $ 40,000 USD).

Basic Research Grant for Individual Scholar, funded by the National Research Foundation for individual researches on imperative current issues. Sole Principal Investigator for research project “Historical Reconciliation and Inherited Responsibility, 2009 (KRF-2009-327-B00010, KRW 20,760,000; approx. $ 20,000 USD).

Asia Security Initiative Scholarship, MacArthur Foundation. Sole Principal Investigator for working paper project, “Making Citizens Responsible for Historical Injustices,” 2009 (KRW 3,000,000; approx. $ 3000 USD).

Humanities Korea Grant, funded by National Research Foundation for the Research Groups, A Participant as the Head of the First Division in the Research Project, “Northeast Transnational Space,” at the Asiatic Research Institute, 2008-2009. (KRF-2008-R0812291, KRW 800,000,000 per a year; approx. $ 800,000 USD).

Translation Grant, funded by National Research Foundation for the translation of Republicanism, by Philip Pettit (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 2007. (KRF-2007-B00003, KRW 18,800,000 per year; approx. $ 18,800 USD).

2007 POSCO Asia Research Grant, funded by POSCO TJ Park foundation. Sole Principal Investigator of research project, “Municipal Policy Model for Multicultural Cooperation,” 2007. (KRW 15,000,000; approx. $ 15,000 USD).

New Scholar Grant, funded by National Research Foundation. Sole Principal Investigator of research project, “Democratic Authority,” 2005. (KRF-2005-004-B0007, KRW 9,031,000; approx. $ 9,000 USD).

Provincial Government Research Grant, funded by Kyeongsangbuk-do, Project Manager of research project, “Municipal International Cooperation,” 2005 (KRW 75,000,000; approx. $ 75,000 USD).

Jee-Hoon Research Grant, Declined, funded by Jee-Hoon Foundation at the Research Institute of Korean Studies for research project, “Patriotism before Nationalism in Korea,” 2004 (KRW 3,000,000; approx. $ 3,000 USD).

FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS [Collaboration]

National Research Fund in China, funded by the Ministry of Education in China for the project of “Thomas Hobbes” at the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), whose annual funds amount to 300,000 RMB (approx. $ 35,000 USD), 2018-2020.

Brain Korea 21, funded by National Research Foundation for the graduate studies in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University, whose annual funds amounted to KRW 300,000,000 (approx. $ 300,000 USD), 2007-2011.

Humanity Korea, funded by National Research Foundation for the research collaboration at the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, whose annual funds amounted to KRW 100,000,000 (approx. $ 1,00,000 USD), 2008-2010.

Imperative Research Institute Grant, funded by National Research Foundation for the research collaboration at the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, whose annual funds amounted to KRW 111,168,000 (approx. $ 111,000 USD) 2004

TEACHINGS 

History of Western Political Philosophy

Contemporary Political Theories

Comparative Political Philosophy 

Global Justice 

Nationalism and Patriotism

Democratic Theories