Welcome!
I am Korea Chair in Advanced Technologies, National Security and Defence at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Before joining the IISS, I worked for the U. S. Department of Defense for 6 years, as a professor at Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) based in Honolulu, Hawaii, and an associate professor and director of the Asian Studies Program at the U. S. Army War College.
My research interests are nuclear technology and security issues in East Asia. My book manuscript, Everything but the Bomb: South Korea’s Nuclear Hedging Strategy, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. My work has appeared in The Washington Quarterly, Global Governance, Foreign Policy, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, War on the Rocks, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, National Bureau of Asian Research, Routledge, The National Interest, United States for International Peace, and The Diplomat. I have also provided commentaries regarding Asian security affairs to media outlets, such as Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time magazine, BBC, Bloomberg, Al-Jazeera, LA Times, NBC News, AFP, Nikkei Asia, NK News, Japan Times, Taipei Times, Sydney Morning Herald, and Voice of America, among others.
Previously, I served as a research fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center, the Wilson Center, Pacific Forum, and the Stimson Center; as a Nuclear Scholar, a Security and Statecraft Fellow, and a US-Korea NextGen Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; as a visiting fellow at the East-West Center; as a nonresident fellow at Eurasia Group; as a visiting fellow at Seoul National University; as a nonresident visiting scholar at the George Washington Institute for Korean Studies; a Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholar, and also as a South Korean diplomat. I have taught at Harvard University, Boston College, the University of Hong Kong and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I hold a PhD degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a Master’s degree from Harvard University. My CV is available here, and you can reach me at lamikim@mailbox.org.