Brian Gleason

Brian Gleason briandgleason@gmail.com Education __________________________________________________________ Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies MA candidate in International Relations (Expected graduation: Summer 2013) Cumulative GPA: 3.9/4.3 Activities -Speaker at the Yonsei GSIS 25th Anniversary Forum (June 2012) Speech Topic: “Using the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a Balancing Strategy in the South China Sea Disputes” -Research assistant and editor for Professor Rhyu Sang-young Top Contributing FDI Firms in Asia report, presented at the World Knowledge Forum (October 2011) -Winner of the 2011 Seoul Inter-GSIS Policy Forum hosted by the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) -Representative at the Yonsei University GSIS-Tsinghua University GSIS debate in Beijing (Fall 2011) -Runner up at the Yonsei GSIS United Nations New Millennium Policy Forum (Spring 2011) -Speaker at the Yonsei GSIS Fall 2011 Korea International Studies Association (KISA) Forum -Member of PSCORE: People for Successful Corean Reunification (Spring 2011-present) -Yonsei GSIS Peer Advisor (Fall 2011, Spring 2012) University of Wisconsin-Madison Bachelor of Arts (May 2007 graduate) Major: Political Science Cumulative GPA: 3.25/4.0 Marquette University High School Graduated May 2003 Cumulative GPA: 3.62/4.0 (1st Honors, National Honors Society) Writing Experience ________________________________________________ The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK) Paper: “The Political Economy of Trade Policy in the KORUS FTA: A Realist Perspective,” The American Studies Association of Korea, Seoul National University Press, (publication forthcoming June 2013). Korean Quarterly Essay: “Oprah vs. Juche: Reviewing the North Korean Border Capture, Captivity and Trial of Laura Ling and Euna Lee,” Korean Quarterly, Summer 2012. The London School of Economics blog Essay: “The Political Economy of Trade Policy in the KORUS FTA,” by Brian Gleason and Steven Denney, LSE International Affairs, May 2012, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/ideas/2012/05/the-political-economy-of-trade-policy-in-the-korus-fta/ Yonsei Journal of International Studies Essay: “Eamonn Fingleton’s Lost Decade Debate,” Yonsei Journal of International Studies, June 2012. SinoNK.com, an academic web journal (Editor-in-Chief: Professor Adam Cathcart) “A scholarly web resource about North Korea and Korean-Chinese relations” Selected Essays: “Torture and Public Security: Kim Young-hwan’s Captivity and Sino-ROK Relations,” (August 1, 2012), “Beautiful Defectors, Part I: An Exploration of South Korea’s ‘Now on My Way to Meet You,’” (August 3, 2012), “Beautiful Defectors, Part II: Everyday Fashion as Political - Blending into the South Korean Middle Class,” (August 10, 2012), “Double Defectors: Signifiers of Pyongyang’s Strategic Shift,” (December 6, 2012).