Faculty

Young Kihl

Professor Emeritus

545 Ross Hall
Political Science
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1204
Phone: 515-294-6960
FAX: 515-294-1003
email: ykihl@iastate.edu

VITA

Young Whan Kihl is Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Iowa State University, Ames. A recent recipient of the 2005 Regents Faculty Excellence Award, from the State of Iowa, and the 2005 Global Korea Award, from Michigan State University, Kihl currently serves as Editor-in-Chief to International Journal of Korean Studies and contributing editor to Korea Journal (a publication of Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Seoul). He was on editorial board of the Journal of Asian Studies, 1993-1997, and on editorial advisory board of International Studies Quarterly, 1999-2004. 

Kihl received B.A. degree (1959) in political science from Grinnell College, and both M.A. (1960) and Ph.D. (1963) degrees in politics from New York University. Kihl was a distinguished visiting professor at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies (1997), an exchange professor in residence at the Sejong Institute (1998), and the Fulbright Professor at Ewha Woman’s University Graduate School of International Studies (1999), all of them in South Korea.

Kihl has written fifteen books on Korean politics and Asian security. Included in the list of his recent books are: North Korea: The Politics of Regime Survival (coeditor with Hong N. Kim, 2006), Transforming Korean Politics: Democracy, Reform, and Culture (2005), Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: The Nuclear Issue and the Korean Peninsula (coeditor, with Peter Hayes, 1997) and Korea and the World: Beyond the Cold War (editor, 1994) selected by CHOICE as an outstanding academic book.

His most recent monograph is” Building an East Asian Regional Order: Testing of Propositions, with an East-West Center post-doctoral fellowship, Summer 2006 (www.eastwestcenter.org/stored/pdfs/PSwp016.pdf.)  Kihl’s other published articles include: “The Kim Jong-Il Government’s Policy Toward South Korea: Analysis of the June 2005 Inter-Korean Agreement,” International Journal of Korean Studies 10, 1 (Spring/Summer, 2006): 1-36; “Security on the Korean Peninsula: Continuity and Change.” Security Dialogue 33, 1 (March, 2002): 59-72; and “Nuclear Issues in U.S.-Korea Relations: An Uncertain Security Future.” International Journal of Korean Studies 7, 1 (Spring/ Summer, 2003): 79-98.

Book Review of North Korea: The Politics of Regime Survival

Book Review of Transforming Korean Politics: Democracy, Reform and Culture

Direct inquiries to: ykihl@iastate.edu, 515-294-7256, 480-961-9467, 602-510-7363 (HP).