Sung Eun Kim
김성은/金成恩

Sung Eun Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Korea University. She received her PhD in Political Science from Columbia University in 2016 and previously taught at the National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on the international political economy, with a particular interest in the intersection of domestic politics and international trade. Her work delves into topics such as public attitudes and electoral responses to trade policy, as well as China’s foreign economic strategies, particularly its trade and foreign aid policies. She is also interested in the political economy of the environment and energy, especially public opinion toward environmental politics. Her work has appeared in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and International Organization, among others. At the Harvard-Yenching Institute, she will examine how China, as a rising power, utilizes veiled and indirect protectionist measures that skirt the rules of global trade institutions while seeking to maintain a reputation as a supporter of the open economic order.