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Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: the dealignment of state and regime security (2025)
Journal Article
Kong, T. Y., & Chu, Y.-W. (online). Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: the dealignment of state and regime security. Competition & Change, https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294251336825

Taiwan’s transition from a miracle of “growth with equity” to inegalitarian growth in the 21st century cannot be fully explained by the prevailing theories of globalization or social politics derived from the study of Western capitalism and social po... Read More about Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: the dealignment of state and regime security.

East Asian Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-Economic Inequality: South Korea and Hong Kong Compared (2022)
Journal Article
Chu, Y.-W., & Kong, T. Y. (2024). East Asian Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-Economic Inequality: South Korea and Hong Kong Compared. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 54(1), 61-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2022.2105738

This article examines the deepening of socio-economic inequality manifested as dualisation in South Korea and deregulation in Hong Kong. It explains the extreme manifestations of inequality by reference to the nature of economic co-ordination, organi... Read More about East Asian Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-Economic Inequality: South Korea and Hong Kong Compared.

The Advance of Marketization in North Korea: Between political rigidity and economic flexibility (2019)
Journal Article
Kong, T. Y. (2020). The Advance of Marketization in North Korea: Between political rigidity and economic flexibility. Modern Asian Studies, 54(3), 830-867. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X18000550

North Korea is a unique regime that has not followed the ‘mono transition’ path (economic reform under modified one-party rule) of other surviving communist regimes (China, Vietnam, Cuba) in the post-Cold War era. Debates over North Korea’s unique fe... Read More about The Advance of Marketization in North Korea: Between political rigidity and economic flexibility.

How China Views North Korea's Readiness to Reform and Its Influence on China's North Korea Policy in the Post-Cold War Era (2019)
Journal Article
Kong, T. Y. (2021). How China Views North Korea's Readiness to Reform and Its Influence on China's North Korea Policy in the Post-Cold War Era. The Pacific Review, 34(1), 85-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2019.1651384

China’s policy of restraint (avoidance of crippling economic sanctions) towards North Korean provocation is typically explained in terms of geopolitical concern with North Korean regime stability. The strategic and diplomatic costs of restraint would... Read More about How China Views North Korea's Readiness to Reform and Its Influence on China's North Korea Policy in the Post-Cold War Era.

Achieving Peace on the Korean Peninsula (2018)
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Hemmings, J., Kong, T. Y., & Pacheco Pardo, R. (2018). Achieving Peace on the Korean Peninsula

The possibility of peace seems closer than ever before, but caution is necessary.

China's Engagement-Oriented Strategy Towards North Korea: Achievements and Limitations (2017)
Journal Article
Kong, T. Y. (2018). China's Engagement-Oriented Strategy Towards North Korea: Achievements and Limitations. The Pacific Review, 31(1), 76-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2017.1316301

n response to the challenge of unstable North Korea (weak economy, weapons of mass destruction [WMD] development), China has followed an engagement-oriented strategy based on diplomatic persuasion, economic interaction and moderate economic sanctions... Read More about China's Engagement-Oriented Strategy Towards North Korea: Achievements and Limitations.

Rear Vision. North Korea: The History of Its Relationship with the US and with Nuclear Weapons (2013)
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Kong, T. Y. (2013). Rear Vision. North Korea: The History of Its Relationship with the US and with Nuclear Weapons. [Radio]

What’s going on in North Korea and why is it that North Korea and the United States have been in a state of war for over half a century? This week on Rear Vision, the story behind the current political crisis on the Korean Peninsula.