■ Education (학력)     

- Ph. D, London School of Economics, International History

Thesis title: "The Foreign Policy of Park Chunghee, 1968-79."

- Master of Pacific International Affairs, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), IR/PS

- B.A, Pusan National University, Business Administration and International Studies

■ Fields of Interest (연구관심분야)

- International Security, Indo-Pacific International Relations, Nuclear Security, U.S. Foreign Policy, Diplomatic History

■ Experience (경력)

Korea Military Academy, Republic of Korea Army, Associate Professor

Korea Military Academy, Republic of Korea Army, Assistant Professor

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Part-time Lecturer

Postdoc Fellow, University of Southern California

■ Recent Publications (최근논문)          

Peer-reviewed Articles (SSCI & A&HCI)

Lyong Choi and Sang-hoon Lee, “Forced Self-reliance: The Defense Strategy of the Kamakura Bakufu against the Mongol Invasion of Japan,” Interdisciplinary History, September 2021, Vol. 52, Issue 2, pp. 177-196.  

Lyong Choi, “Reluctant Reconciliation: South Korea’s Tentative Détente with North Korea in the Nixon Era, 1969- 72,” Modern Asian Studies,  January 2020, Vol. 54, Issue 1, pp. 59-94.

Lyong Choi, Jong-dae Shin, and Han-hyung Lee, “The Dilemma of the “Axis of Evil”: The Rise and Fall of Iran-DPRK Relations,” Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Vol. 31, No. 4, December 2019, 595－611

Lyong Choi and Il-young Jeong, “North Korea and Zimbabwe, 1978–1982: from the strategic alliance to the symbolic comradeship between Kim Il Sung and Robert Mugabe,” November 2017, Cold War History, Vol. 17, Issue 4, pp. 329-349

Lyong Choi, “Human Rights, Popular Protest and Jimmy Carter’s Plan to Withdraw U.S. Troops from South Korea,” Diplomatic History, November 2017, Vol. 41, Issue 5, pp. 933–958.

Lyong Choi and Jong-dae Shin, “Enemy of My Ally Is Not My Enemy: ROK-US Alliance and ROK-Iran Relations,” Asian Perspective, July-September 2017, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 403-429.

Jaeho Hwang and Lyong Choi, “Re-thinking Normalization between ROK and PRC in the Early 1990s: The South Korean Perspective,” Cold War History, December May, Vol.15, Issue 4, pp. 557-578.

Lyong Choi, “The First Nuclear Crisis in the Korean Peninsula, 1975- 76,” Journal of Cold War History,  March 2014, Vol. 2014, Issue 1, pp. 1-20.

Peer-reviewed Articles (KCI)

Lyong Choi, “Reconsidering the Diplomatic History by Theory of Asymmetric Combined Forces: Analysis on Silla-Tang,Goryeo-Mongol(Yuan), and Joseon-Ming Relations,” Korean Journal of Military Art and Science, Feb 2020, Vol. 76, Issue 2, pp. 217- 234.

Lyong Choi, “The Nuclear Proliferation Puzzle from North Korea: Nuclear Development through Technology Exchanges,” Yonsei Journal of Unification Studies, May 2018, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 39-70.

Lyong Choi, “From the War of Rationality to the War of Legitimacy: Black and White Conflict in the 1970s’ Southern Africa and Change in U.S. Third World Policy,” May, 2018, Journal of Western History, Vol. 58, Issue 0, pp. 103-128.

Jeong Ilyeong and Lyong Choi, “The China Dilemma of The USA and State Normalization of Japan,” Yonsei Journal of Korean Unification Studies, pp. 5- 31. Vol. 19, No. 2, 2015.

Book chapter

Lyong Choi, “The Bluff and Bluster: South Korea’s Nuclear Project and ROK-US Relations in 1970s ,” Nuclear Latency and Hedging: Concepts, History, and Issues (Washington D.C: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2020) https://www.wilsoncenter.org/book/nuclear-latency-and-hedging-concepts-history-and-issues

Book translation

The History of World, written by J. M. Roberts and O. A. Westad