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Hyun Ji Rim

Hyun Ji Rim

Adjunct Lecturer

  • Campus Location: Washington DC

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Hyun Ji Rim is Lecturer for Strategic Studies and the Masters in Global Policy (MAGP) program at School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. She writes extensively on extended deterrence, Indo-Pacific strategy and East Asian security dynamics. Her most recent article on comprehensive extended deterrence in the Washington Quarterly that she coauthored with Dr. Sung-han Kim, and others have been published in the Pacific Review, International Journal of Conflict Management, the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Asian Perspective, etc. She has held research fellowships with Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tuft University and Pacific Forum CSIS. She holds a PhD in international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, a MA in International Relations from Korea University, a BA in Korean Studies and French Language and Literature from Ewha Woman’s University.
  • Kim, Sung-han and Rim, Hyun Ji. “Comprehensive Extended Deterrence: A New Strategic Path for the ROK-US Alliance in the Indo-Pacific Era,” the Washington Quarterly 46(4), 2024
  • Rim, Hyun Ji and Vukovic, Sinisa eds. “Integrated Naval Strategies and New Geopolitics: Intensifying Maritime Competition and Emerging Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific,” the Pacific Review, Special Issue 2024 (forthcoming)
  • Rim, Hyun Ji, “Against Long-term Strategic Threats at Sea: South Korea’s Naval Strategy and Unmanned Maritime Systems,” the Pacific Review, Special Issue 2024 (forthcoming)
  • Rim, Hyun Ji, “Can an Arms Race Promote Stability? The Inter-Korean Qualitative Arms Race and US Extended Deterrence,” International Journal of Conflict Management, 35(1), 2024 DOI: 10.1108/IJCMA-12-2022-0216 (Published online 15 October, 2023)
  • Rim, Hyun Ji, “Ch. 3. Military Threats to Security: Theoretical Orientation and Country Studies” in Hebron, Lui Eds. “Asian Security in the Age of Globalization,” Routledge, May 2024
  • Rim, Hyun Ji and Platte, E. James edited, “Indo-Pacific Strategy and Foreign Policy Challenges: The US-China Strategic Competition,” Routledge, May 2023
  • Rim, Hyun Ji, “The Gist of Seoul’s Indo-Pacific Strategy,” Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Vol 6:1.
  • Rim, Hyun Ji, “The US-China Strategic Competition and Emerging Technologies in the Indo-Pacific: Strategies for Building, Dominating, and Managing Networks,” Asian Perspective, Vol 47:1, Winter 2022
  • Rim, Hyun Ji edited Special Issue on the US-China Strategic Competition in the Indo-Pacific (Part 2), Asian Perspective, Vol 47:2, Spring 2023
  • Rim, Hyun Ji edited Special Issue on the US-China Strategic Competition in the Indo-Pacific (Part 1), Asian Perspective, Vol 477:1 Spring 2023
  • Rim, Hyun Ji edited, Special Issue on Korea, Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, October 2022; Introduction “South Korea’s Stepping Up as an Indo-Pacific Actor: Challenges for the New Yoon Administration,” Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Vol 5: 6.
  • Rim, Hyun Ji and Kim, Minsung. “Nuclear Strategy of Pakistan and North Korea: Narang’s Asymmetric Escalation Posture and Its Limits,” Unification Policy Studies, Vol.31:1, 30 June 2022
  • Rim, Hyun Ji. “Emerging Technologies: New Threats and Growing Opportunities for South Korean Indo-Pacific Strategy,” Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, March-April 2022 https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/JIPA/Display/Article/2979680/emerging-technologies-new-threats-and-growing-opportunities-for-south-korean-in/
  • Rim, Hyun Ji. “Reward-based or Threat-based Deterrence: US Policy toward Japan and South Korea in Comparative Perspective,” The Pacific Review, February 2022
  • Rim, Hyun Ji. “Path to Nuclear Weapons: Balancing Deterrence, Preemption, and Defense for South Korea,” Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Vol. 3, Issue 4, Winter 2020; https://media.defense.gov/2020/Nov/23/2002540359/-1/-1/1/DO_RIM.PDF

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