{"id":1128,"date":"2023-09-11T22:20:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ksi\/?page_id=1128"},"modified":"2025-03-17T22:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:31:31","slug":"ellen-kim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ksi\/ellen-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--spotlight \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--spotlight\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"text-image-container\">\n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>U.S.-Asia GSP Fellow 2019-2020; 2020-2021<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Ellen Kim is a PhD candidate in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California. Previously, she was Associate Director of the Korea Chair at\u00a0the Center for Strategic and International Relations (CSIS), where she was also a Fellow. Her research interests are East Asian security, US grand strategy in Asia, and international political economy.\u00a0Her latest publication\u00a0Between a Rock and a Hard Place: South Korea\u2019s Strategic Dilemmas with China and the United State,coauthored with Victor Cha, was published in the Asia Policy Journal. She also coauthored a quarterly review of US-Korea relations in Comparative Connections, an electronic journal on East Asian bilateral relations, with Victor Cha. Ms. Kim holds a BA in international relations and Japanese studies from Wellesley College and an MPP from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. 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