Research

    Peer-Reviewed Publication

    Chun-Young Park and Matthew Rains, “Expanding Access, Preserving Judgment: Large Language Models in Social Science Data Collection,” International Studies Quarterly (2026, forthcoming)

    Sanghoon Park, Chun-Young Park and Hyunkyu Kim, “Manufacturing Compliance: How Pariah States Strategically Engage with International Human Rights Mechanisms,” International Political Science Review (2026) Onlinefirst

    박천영, 정민경, 강신재, “한국 시민사회의 국제연대 의제는 어떻게 변화하였는가?: 참여연대 국제연대위원회 활동의 텍스트 분석“, 시민과 사회 , 통권 48호 (2026, 상반기), 75-119.

    Chun-Young Park, “Active Yet Cautious: How Middle States Navigate Status in the Universal Periodic Review,” Global Policy, Vol 17 Issue 1 (2026), 58-70.

    Chun-Young Park and Sanghoon Park, “You Scratch My Back and I Scratch
    Yours: Dyadic Reciprocity of Naming and Shaming    “, International Interactions, Vol 51 Issue 1 (2025), 1–28.

    Shin-hwa Lee and Chun Young Park, “Korea’s Middle Power Diplomacy for
    Human Security: A Global and Regional Approach    ,” Journal of International and Area Studies, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2017), pp. 21-44.

    Works Under Review

    “Middle Powerhood as Resonance in a Plural Recognition Order: Illustrative Cases of Korea and Kazakhstan”

    “NGOs and Foreign Policy Analysis” (book chapter) in Edward Elgar Handbook on Foreign Policy Analysis (eds. Marijke Breuning an Leslie E. Wehner)

    Works in Progress

    1. The UPROSE (UPR Other Stakeholders’ Engagement) Dataset Project (with Matthew Rains, Jiyoon Kang, Aruzhan Bolat and Ella Schoenfelder)
    – “Disaggregating Shamers: the Universal Periodic Review Other Stakeholders’ Engagement (UPROSE) Project”
    2. “Access Denied: Repression, Civic Channels, and Anti-Government Protest, with Evidence from Cross-National Analysis and Kazakhstan” (with Jiyoon Kang and Zachary Marsh)
    3. “Civil Society Under Siege: Chinese Foreign Aid and Closing Civil Space”
    4. “Collective Behaviors of South Korean NGOs in UPR Other Stakeholders’ Submissions”
    5. “Borrowing Authority from States: How Lesser-known NGOs Behave in the Universal Periodic Review”
    6. “Nuclear Proliferation and the Quest for Prestige” (with Pedro Goulart)
    7. “Winning the Heart of Foreign Public by Status Building” (with Cana Kim)