{"id":3641,"date":"2025-03-17T22:22:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ksi\/?page_id=3641"},"modified":"2025-03-17T22:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:22:37","slug":"stephanie-kang","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ksi\/stephanie-kang\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Kang"},"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<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Stephanie Kang is a PhD candidate studying international relations at the University of Southern California. Her research explains why security commitments between states vary and how such variation has different effects on the strategic environment of actors in dispute. In particular, she is interested in the relationship between the security obligations and provisions laid out in alliance treaties (\u201ctreaty commitments\u201d) and the physical military actions\/measures taken in peacetime to coordinate allies\u2019 militaries in preparation for potential conflict (\u201cmaterial commitments\u201d). Stephanie\u2019 research has broad implications for the study of conflict, extended deterrence, and the design of security commitments. Her research has been funded by the Fulbright Program, the Korea Foundation, and the US Department of Education. She was also an APSA Minority Fellow from 2016-2017. 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