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Dave Kang

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Dave Kang

@daveckang

Going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm! (Also: USSF "National B" license, equivalent of today's "A-senior" license) daveckang.net

Los Angeles, CA

Joined August 2009

Dave Kang
@daveckang
Dec 21, 2022
I truly don't understand how US calls for "rules based order" and then ignores said order whenever we want. Do we really think anybody else is fooled? Brussels incensed as US spurns global trade rules (yet again)
Brussels incensed as US spurns global trade rules (yet again)
From politico.eu
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Dave Kang
@daveckang
Mar 9, 2021
My students have no idea that we once thought that Japan was the most obvious peer competitor to the United States.
John Thornhill
@johnthornhillft
Mar 8, 2021
“Japan today cannot even ride the waves of technological and industrial innovation, let alone create them,” says Kazuto Ataka. What a contrast with the 1980s @Urbandirt ft.com/content/bd51a6… via @financialtimes
Dave Kang
@daveckang
Aug 25, 2020
Lots of discussion about how to move beyond "greatest hits" of European history. The key element, though, is to provide alternative cases and events that illuminate existing - and new - aspects of international relations. @StephanHaggard and I gathered... amazon.com/East-Asia-Worl…
Dave Kang
@daveckang
Jun 23, 2020
IR theorizing has been profoundly, shaped by the Western experiences of the Westphalian order and often assumes that the Western experience can be generalized to all orders. Recent scholarship on historical East Asian orders challenges these notions. doi.org/10.1017/S00208…
Dave Kang
@daveckang
Dec 3, 2024
I posted on the other site. A few thoughts here: 1. It is so outrageous I am having trouble getting my head around it. I was in Korea in 1987 and I remember martial law. This is one of the dumbest moves by a Korean president in its history. 2. Yoon's fate is sealed...
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Dave Kang
@daveckang
Feb 20, 2024
Coming soon. I think it's going to be a big, big hit.
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Dave Kang
@daveckang
Jul 3, 2020
1/(Warning - rambling thread): I like that magazines like FP are asking about racism and Eurocentrism in IR. But almost all the scholars - while POC - are from US/European countries. How about asking some scholars from the actual non-West as well? How about asking some who teach
Dave Kang
@daveckang
Apr 26, 2022
Super excited. We hope this will be out by late summer! 화이팅!!!
Dave Kang
@daveckang
Sep 30, 2020
Yeah, I'm an area specialist. I am, in fact, proudly an area specialist. I know more than you about East Asia. You got a problem with that?
Dave Kang
@daveckang
Sep 28, 2022
Replying to @NateMJensen
See you in hell. Dave
Dave Kang
@daveckang
Aug 3, 2022
So it's finally published! Makes a great "back to school" gift! Mom will love it! Run, don't walk, to your nearest bookseller and stock up now before they're gone!!!
Dave Kang
@daveckang
Dec 29, 2022
Why, oh why, do we view China through a military lens??? It is such an own goal... China has deepened economic ties with other Asian countries since the beginning of its trade war with the U.S. in 2018 wsj.com/articles/china… via @WSJ
China Increases Trade in Asia as U.S. Pushes Toward Decoupling
From wsj.com
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Dave Kang
@daveckang
Aug 3, 2021
To follow up a recent tweet, here are the problems of using non-Western cases in journal articles: 1: reviewers almost never know the material, so it takes twice as long to describe and defend the cases. This leaves far less room for drawing causal or theoretical insights...
Dave Kang
@daveckang
Jul 26, 2018
Concessions so far, as far as I can tell -- North Korea: 1. missile test moratorium 2. nuclear test moratorium 3. Punggye-ri 4. Sohae 5. KIA remains returned USA: 1. canceled one war game NK is unlikely to move much farther without the US making a move first.