2008-2009 Korea Foundation Grant Awards

James Wilson, University of Virginia

"From Peking Duck to Chicken Kiev: George Bush and America's Response to the Revolutions of 1989"

Korea Foundation grant funds support a Ph.D. dissertation in American history examining how the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989 shaped the Bush administration's response to the subsequent revolutions in Eastern Europe and testing the hypothesis that George Bush's experiences with China shaped his world view and statecraft.

2007-2008 Korea Foundation Grant Awards

Chad J. Mitcham, Australian Institute of International Affairs

"Petroleum and East Asia, 1880-2008: Conflict, Diplomacy, and Development"

Korea Foundation grant funds support this book length project on the history of competition and cooperation over petroleum resources among East Asian nations and nations outside the region seeking to gain access to East Asian petroleum.

Thu Ha Pham, University of Ottawa

"U.S.-Vietnam Relations, 1975-1992"

Korea Foundation grant funds support this master's thesis project on American relations with Vietnam from the fall of Saigon in 1975 until George Bush's announcement of a roadmap to normalized relations in 1992.

Sergey Radchenko, London School of Economics

"Gorbachev Looks East: The Soviet Union and East Asia"

Korea Foundation grant funds support this book length project on the Soviet Union's relations with four East Asian countries—China, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea—in the concluding years of the Cold War.

Sonia Ryang, University of Iowa

"Totalitarianism and Human Rights in North Korea: Its Metamorphasis during the 1990s"

Korea Foundation grant funds support research on the evolution of the North Korean totalitarian regime under Kim Jong Il in the 1990s and the resulting catastrophe for basic human rights in North Korea.

Alexander Von Rosenbach, London School of Economics

"The United States' China Policy after Tiananmen Square"

Korea Foundation grant funds support a master's thesis on how internal government debate over the direction of Sino-American relations following the Tiananmen Square massacre contributed to the process of official policy formation in the White House.