Myungsik Ham is an Associate Professor of School of International and Public Affairs. He teaches international relations of East Asia, international relations theories, international political economy, and global issues and public diplomacy. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and his master’s degree from Yonsei University, Florida State University and the University of Virginia. He completed his doctoral work at Jilin University. He is author of A Contemporary Topographic Map of Korean Studies in Greater China: Integrating the Micro and Macro Level of Analysis(2021) in Korean and contributed book chapters to Korea-China Public Diplomacy(2017) in Korean and 英國學派理論與國際關系史研究(2011) in Chinese. His articles have appeared in such journals as China: An International Journal, Modern China, and Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies in English, Korean Political Science Review, National Security Strategy, Sino-Soviet Studies, and Journal of Northeast Asia Research in Korean and 史學集刊 in Chinese. He also regularly contributes op-eds to Seoul Shinmun and China Specialist Forum in Korean. He is currently at work on The dynamics of hegemonic contestation: global economic exchange, domestic political battle, and institutional distinction, The impact of COVID-19 politics on China: Once friends, forever friends?, The rise of China and its influence on growing Chaoxianzhu elites’ political and ethnic identity, Tug of-war between non-alliance politics and strongman leadership of the Philippines, and Dual structure of state desire in China.