Dr Claudia KIM
Ph.D. in Political Science, Boston University

Assistant Professor; Scholarship Coordinator Discipline: Political Science Claudia Junghyun Kim is an Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong. She researches social movements, security, and transnational advocacy. For 2019-20, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations.


Contact information
Office: YEUNG Y7710
Phone: 3442-7040
Fax: 3442-0180
Email: c.kim@cityu.edu.hk
Website: Personal Homepage

AC1 : Academic 1
MMW : Mong Man Wai Building
TYB : To Yuen Building





Teaching
Asian politics & society
Social movements



Research Interests
Social movements
Transnational advocacy
International security
Korea and Japan



Publications
Book Project Base Towns: Local Contestation of Global U.S. Military Presence in Korea and Japan (under contract with Oxford University Press)
Journal Articles Kim, Claudia J. "Military Alliances as a Stabilizing Force: U.S. Relations with South Korea and Taiwan," 1950s-1960s. Forthcoming at Journal of Strategic Studies (online first: https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2019.1701441).
Kim, Claudia J. “Scope Mismatch: Explaining the Expansion of Anti-Military Infrastructure Siting Campaigns.” Mobilization 26, no.1 (2021): 109-125.
Kim, Claudia J. “Dugong v. Rumsfeld: Social Movements and the Construction of Ecological Security.” European Journal of International Relations 27, no. 1 (2021):
258-280
Kim, Claudia J. and Taylor C. Boas. “Activist Disconnect: Social Movements, Public Opinion, and U.S. Military Bases in East Asia.” Armed Forces & Society 46, no. 4 (2020): 619-715.
Kim, Claudia J. “Bases that Leave: Consequences of U.S. Base Closures and Realignments in South Korea.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 48, no. 2 (2018): 339-357.
Kim, Claudia J. “War over Framing: Base Politics in South Korea.” The Pacific Review 30, no. 3 (2017): 309-327.
Kim, Claudia J. “Neither a Monolith, Nor a Parrot: Patterns of Japanese Media Reports on Futenma Relocation Controversy.” Social Science Japan Journal 20, no. 2 (2017): 183–201.
Grants Research Grant, Early Career Scheme, Hong Kong University Grants Committee (2021-23)
Korean Studies Grant, Academy of Korean Studies (2021)