Er-Win Tan Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Dr. Er-Win Tan is an Assistant Professor at Keimyung Adams College in Daegu, The Republic of Korea; with effect from March 2019, he will hold the position of Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul. He is the author of The U.S. Versus the North Korean Nuclear Threat: Mitigating the Nuclear Security Dilemma (Routledge, 2014) and numerous articles on North Korea as well as security and diplomacy in East Asia. In 2016, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the East-West Center, where he undertook a research project entitled “Nuclear Midget Versus Nuclear Giant: The Asymmetric US-North Korean Security Dilemma.” He is in the process of expanding his research findings from this project into a book that examines the asymmetrical structure of the U.S.–North Korean security dilemma. In addition, he was also the recipient of a Korea Foundation Grant to undertake the project “In Between Asia Pacific Giants: The Foreign Policies of the Republic of Korea and Singapore as Middle and Small Powers Amidst US-China Geostrategic Rivalry.” He has also undertaken work on cyberwarfare, the foreign and security policy of Singapore, multiculturalism, and U.S.–China economic interdependence.

Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/site/erwintanphd/