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.
- yong 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
