Research

Peer-Reviewed Publication

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) – Accepted

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”

“Expanding Access, Preserving Judgment: Large Language Models in Social Science Data Collection” (with Matthew Rains)

“How Has the International Solidarity Agenda of Korean Civil Society Changed?: A Text Analysis of the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) International Solidarity Committee” (in Korean, with Shinjae Kang and Minkyung Chung)

Works in Progress

The UPROSE (UPR Other Stakeholders’ Engagement) Dataset Project (with
Matthew Rains, Minho Lee, Jiyoon Kang, and Ella Schoenfelder)
– “Disaggregating Shamers: the Universal Periodic Review Other Stakeholders’ Engagement (UPROSE) Project”
“Korean NGOs’ Collective Behavior in the UPR Other Stakeholders’ Submissions”
“Civil Society Under Siege: Chinese Foreign Aid and Closing Civil Space” (with Amanda Murdie)
“Collective Behaviors of South Korean NGOs in UPR Other Stakeholders’ Submissions”
“Borrowing Authority from States: How Lesser-known NGOs Behave in the
Universal Periodic Review”
“Nuclear Proliferation and the Quest for Prestige” (with Pedro Goulart)
“Winning the Heart of Foreign Public by Status Building” (with Cana Kim)