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Dr. Eric J. Ballbach

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Research Division:

Asia Associate

eric.ballbach@swp-berlin.org +49 30 88007-418

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Areas of Expertise

Asia

Asia
East Asia
The Koreas

Focus

Foreign and security policies of North and South Korea, inter-Korean relations, multilateralism in East Asia, identity politics in Korea, critical theories of International Relations

Working Groups

The challenge of autocratisation

Short Curriculum vitae

Joined SWP in October 2017

Since 04/2015 Post-doctoral research fellow and lecturer, Institute of Korean Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

Since 10/2015 Director Research Unit II: North Korea and International Security, Institute of Korean Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

04/2009-03/2015 Research Fellow and Lecturer, Insitute of Korean Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

SWP Publications

- Eric J. Ballbach
South Korea’s Ever-Closer Relations with NATO

Intersecting and Varying Motives of South Korea’s Moon Jae-in and Yoon Suk-yeol Administrations

SWP Comment 2025/C 04, 21.01.2025, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2025C04
- Eric J. Ballbach
Republic of Korea: Developing a Sustainable Foreign Policy and Implementing the SDGs
in:
- Marianne Beisheim (ed.)
Country-level Politics around the SDGs
Contribution to a Research Paper 2023/RP 07, 10.07.2023, 75 Pages, pp. 46–50
- Eric J. Ballbach
South Korea’s Evolving Indo-Pacific Strategy

Opportunities and challenges for cooperation with the EU

SWP Research Paper 2023/RP 02, 17.03.2023, 32 Pages

doi:10.18449/2023RP02
- Eric J. Ballbach
North Korea’s fait accompli
- German
Implications of the changing status quo on the Korean Peninsula

SWP Comment 2022/C 63, 25.10.2022, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2022C63
- Eric J. Ballbach
In the Shadow of the “1992 System” – Relations between South Korea and Taiwan
in:
- Hanns Günther Hilpert
- Alexandra Sakaki
- Gudrun Wacker (eds.)
Dealing with Taiwan
- German
Contribution to a Research Paper 2022/RP 09, 09.09.2022, 91 Pages, pp. 50–55
- Eric J. Ballbach
Moving Beyond Targeted Sanctions

The Sanctions Regime of the European Union against North Korea

SWP Research Paper 2022/RP 04, 18.02.2022, 34 Pages

doi:10.18449/2022RP04

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External publications

- Eric J. Ballbach
The end of Critical Engagement: on the failures of the EU’s North Korea strategy

ARI 101/2019, Madrid: Elcano Royal Institute, 8 Pages
- Niels Hegewisch
The Ulaanbaatar Dialogue – a “Helsinki” for peace in Northeast Asia?

in: fes-asia.org, 26.06.2018 (online)
- Esther Felden
Korea 2017: 'Rocketman' Kim vs. 'mentally deranged' Trump

Over 20 missile launches, one atomic test and a hefty verbal spat between North Korea and the United States – these events characterize the belligerent state of affairs on the Korean Peninsula in 2017.

in: dw.com, 26.12.2017 (online)
- Eric J. Ballbach
North Korea’s Engagement in International Institutions

The Case of the ASEAN Regional Forum

in: International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2017, pp. 35−65
- Eric J. Ballbach
Authoritarian Continuity or Democratic Change? Assessing the Democratic Quality of South Korea’s North Korea Policymaking

in: Lee, Eun-Jeung, Mosler, Hannes B. and Kim Hak-jae (eds.): The Quality of Democracy in Korea: Three Decades after Democratization, Palgrave McMillan, London & New York, 16.11.2017, pp. 277-304

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