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Eun A Jo
@eunajo.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at William & Mary. www.eunajo.com
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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 1d
We have a new article in @cpsjournal.bsky.social theorizing founding leader personality cult emergence in Vietnam, China and Indonesia. It'll be part of a special issue "Imagining Nations" w/ @eunajo.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, @jiyoungko.bsky.social

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Founding Leaders and National Narratives: Anthropomorphism and the Roots of Founding Leader Personality Cults in Three East Asian Cases - Paul Schuler, Trung-Anh Nguyen, Yongfeng Tang, Mohammad Khan, ...
Founding leader personality cults are crucial components of national narratives. Yet, relatively little research examines how they emerge. A small political sci...
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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 2d
U.S. political scientists, are any of your depts *not* admitting new PhD students this year (esp. for international applicants)?

I'm gathering info to help students know where to reconsider applying. Applications are not cheap and they're despairing. Appreciate any details.
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Donghyun Danny Choi @dhdannychoi.bsky.social · 7d
So happy to see this out! We caution against excessive optimism that the opposition will restore countries back to their democratic trajectories after electoral victory. Weakened institutions and the memory of repression makes it tempting to continue rather than buck the trend of autocratization.
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 7d
Conventional wisdom says that, once in power, opposition parties will return backsliding countries to the democratic path. In reality, not only is this not true, but it is not uncommon for the opposition to adopt the autocratic habits of the regime they replaced.

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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 7d
In my latest for @goodauth.bsky.social, I write about why boundary-keeping is just as important as developing inclusive narratives for democracy
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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 7d
Good to Know: Nationalism and democracy.

- What is nationalism, exactly?
- What should nationalism look like in a democracy?

Democracy needs more than a good story. Read our latest, filled with resources from @eunajo.bsky.social:

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Good to Know: Nationalism and democracy
Democracy needs more than a good story.
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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 16d
More information about my new book which will be published by the Cambridge University Press on 11 December:

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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 23d
This work was made possible by support and patient critique from many, many people. All errors are of course mine (and my regrets, in particular, for the oversight in using pinyin romanization for Kuomintang; nothing was meant by it).
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 23d
I find that storytelling elites in South Korea and Taiwan challenged the narrative orthodoxy of oneness to varying degrees during democratization. Their revisionism mattered greatly for how the two nations would come to pursue—or abandon—unification as a national objective.
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 23d
I look to their democratic struggles, and how “storytelling elites” sought to re-narrate nationhood. I think of storytelling elites as those with the institutional and rhetorical resources to contest the official narrative—e.g., dissident intellectuals, historians, civil society leaders, and so on.
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 23d
The paper explores how regime-building (who rules and how) shapes and is shaped by nation-building (who belongs). Why have “One Korea” narratives become entrenched in South Korea, and “One China” narratives dislodged in Taiwan since their modern founding?
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 23d
I’m happy to share this paper in @cpsjournal.bsky.social on democracy and national narratives, with insights from South Korea and Taiwan. It is part of a special issue on postcolonial narratives with @paulschuler.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, + others.

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This paper explores how democratization can reconstitute understandings of nationhood by empowering a new class of “storytelling elites”---those with the institutional and rhetorical resources to challenge the state’s narrative. In this critical juncture, storytelling elites may challenge (1) the bottom-line premise or (2) the sideline elements of the prevailing national narrative. Their narrative strategies, in turn, shape how the terms of the debates are redefined and structured under democracy. I develop this argument through a comparison of “One Korea” and “One China” narratives in postwar South Korea and Taiwan. Using interpretive process tracing of archival and other qualitative data, I find that democracy helped entrench “One Korea” narratives in South Korea but displace “One China” narratives in Taiwan, as new storytelling elites challenged dominant narratives of “oneness” to varying degrees. This resulted in increasingly divergent support for unification as a national objective, with enduring implications for peace.
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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Aug 27
So over the next few days I want to tell you a little bit about my new @oxfordacademic.bsky.social book about looted art. The book is about art so there are many great pictures! A very short, mini-thread 👇
cover of book "The Art of Status" by Jelena Subotic
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Byunghwan 'Ben' Son @textvulture.bsky.social · Jul 23
Deadline (7/25) is approaching. If you're interested in a year-long (but w/ light commitment) experience of talking about politics of Korea in a safe online community, this is a great opportunity. While priority is given to junior scholars, ANYONE is encouraged to apply.
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · Jul 17
Deadline is now July 25th! @textvulture.bsky.social @jennargibson.bsky.social @edwardgoldring.bsky.social
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · Jul 15
Deadline is today! If you’ve got a paper on Korea, consider applying to the fourth cohort of the Korean Political Studies Colloquium (KPSC): textvulture.github.io/presentation...
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · Jul 23
We live in an era of democratic backsliding. But the terminology of "backsliding" isn't up to the task of making sense of the deep crisis of liberal democracy around the world. I've just finished a working paper that lays out what I think is going on.

tl;dr it's about the state and society

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State, Society, and the Politics of Democratic Backsliding
Recent scholarship on democratic backsliding has focused on measuring its global prevalence and identifying the causal processes and mechanisms that produce or
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · Jul 21
With LDP's defeat today (and a sharper turn to the right in Japan's domestic politics), trade negotiations are about to get even more complicated. Some thoughts on @goodauth.bsky.social about what Trump's tariffs might mean for Japan and South Korea:

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Trump’s tariffs are testing America’s Asian allies.
U.S. tariffs have become a symbol of diminishing U.S. credibility in the region.
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Jennifer Mitzen @jennifermitzen.bsky.social · Jul 21
Please share widely!
IR Theory Colloquium (IRTC)
2025-2026
Call for applications / Due July 31
IRTC is a monthly, 90-minute Zoom workshop for early career researchers, aimed at improving theoretical arguments and expanding the IR Theory community.
More info below:
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · Jul 17
Deadline is now July 25th! @textvulture.bsky.social @jennargibson.bsky.social @edwardgoldring.bsky.social
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · Jul 15
Deadline is today! If you’ve got a paper on Korea, consider applying to the fourth cohort of the Korean Political Studies Colloquium (KPSC): textvulture.github.io/presentation...
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · Jul 15
Deadline is today! If you’ve got a paper on Korea, consider applying to the fourth cohort of the Korean Political Studies Colloquium (KPSC): textvulture.github.io/presentation...
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · Jul 2
The @duckofminerva.bsky.social is a International Relations blog with a focus on theory, teaching, and research. I founded it in 2005. It quickly grew to become a cooperative endeavor. It's gone from multiple pieces a day to maybe an article every 2 weeks. But it's still alive and publishing.
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · Jun 24
In South Korea, protest is a ubiquitous and essential form of political expression. Against Abandonment is at once a chronicle of the life-and-death character of protesting precarity in South Korea and a searing examination of repertoires of solidarity for upending injustice

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Book cover of Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest by Jennifer Jihye Chun and Ju Hui Judy Han
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mt-b @mt-b.bsky.social · Jun 19
I made an explorer for some data I OCRd on Chinese organization work and management to '97, largely drawn from《党的组织工作大事记》(1990,1993,1999).

mthompsonbrusstar.shinyapps.io/zuzhirenshi/

Might be of interest to the Chinese political science crowd, sinologists interested in the state / party, etc.
Organization and Personnel (组织人事) Events Browser (1978–1997)
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CSIS Korea Chair @korea.csis.org · Jun 18
LIVE NOW | 1:10–2:20 PM ET
Panel 2: The Next Generation: The Future of Trilateral Cooperation

🔹 Derek Mitchell
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · Jun 12
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · Jun 3
Gender polarization in SK in one pic.

Blue is progressive. Red is conservative. Orange is splinter-conservative.
Screenshot of a exit poll analysis from South Korea's snap election, showing majority support for progressive candidate among women and majority support for conservative candidate among men.
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · Jun 2
South Korea's snap election is tomorrow. It's been an intense 2 months since Yoon's impeachment was finalized. I share some thoughts on what to expect + hope for.
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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · May 31
The next president faces the tough job of bolstering South Korea’s democracy as well as its economy.

Here's what to expect in South Korea’s June 3 snap election.

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What to expect in South Korea’s June 3 snap election
The next president faces the tough job of bolstering South Korea’s democracy as well as its economy.
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