European Centre for North Korean Studies

Ph.D. Network

The ECNK Ph.D. Network identifies doctoral candidates in the field of North Korean Studies and provides information on their thesis topics.

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'From Collapse to Resilience: Informal Economy and the Reproduction of State Power in North Korea'

  • Affiliation: Sapienza University of Rome, IT

'East Asia and the Bomb: Nuclear Proliferation and its place in National Identity'

  • Affiliation: NOVA University of Lisbon & Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), PT

'Shifting guerilla states: Kim Il-sung in partisan histories and Sino-NK relations'

'Flip the Script: Becoming Narratable Beyond Social Representations and Recognitions'

'Charismatic Leadership on the Korean Peninsula'

  • Affiliation: University of Heidelberg, DE
  • Contact: E-mail

'북조선 축구의 발전: 우월성과 감소의 요인' 
(The Evolution of Football in the DPRK: Factors of Ascendancy and Decline)

  • Affiliation: University of North Korean Studies, KR
  • Contact: Website, E-mail

'Critical discourse analysis of the alternative education for North Korea refugee background students'

  • Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University, USA
  • Contact: Website

'Transformation and Overcoming of Imperial Historiography from Europe in History Education: Focusing on History Education in Korea and Japan'

  • Affiliation: Academy of Korean Studies, KR

'Comparative Study of Political Leadership Cults in Modern World History'

  • Affiliation: Korea University, KR

'North Korean defector's second migration to the UK and USA'

'India's Non-Alignment Posture Before Nam: A Case Study of India's Involvement in Korea (1945-1954)'

  • Affiliation: University of Delhi, IN

'North Korean Depictions of the Future in Text Publications of the Kim Jong-un Era '

  • Affiliation: University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
  • Contact: E-mail

'Leadership, Identity, and Nuclear Power: Analysing North Korea’s Nuclear Trajectory Across Three Regimes'

  • Affiliation: University of Turku, FI

'North Korea’s South Korea Policy: The Impact of National Roles on North Korea Foreign Policy'

  • Affiliation: King's College London, UK

'The North Korea Policy of the United States from the Clinton Administration to the Biden Administration'

'The Kim Dae-jung Administration and North Korea: The Bounds of Trust-Building'

  • Affiliation: University of Lancashire, UK
  • Contact: E-mail

'Indirect Impacts of Economic Sanctions: Three Essays'

  • Affiliation: Yonsei University, KR
  • Contact: E-mail

'Incorporation and Belonging: An Intersectional and Comparative Studies of Chinese Korean and North Korean Migrants in South Korea'

  • Affiliation: University of California, USA
  • Contact: E-mail

'North Korea's hedging strategy toward China and the USA in 1994-2019'

'Legitimation and the Resilience of Authoritarian Rule: A Comparative Study of Russia and North Korea'

  • Affiliation: University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
  • Contact: LinkedIn

'Development Assistance and Climate Resilience in Countries Under Authoritarian Rule: A Comparative Study of North Korea and Vietnam'

  • Affiliation: University of Central Lancashire, UK

'Voices of Exclusion: How North Korea-affiliated Media Shape Wedge Narratives in Japan'

  • Affiliation: University of Vienna, AT
  • Contact: E-mail

'States of the Korean Peninsula in the U.S. Foreign Policy'

'Issues of North Korea in the Western Media & Wider Implications'

  • Affiliation: National Cheng Kung University, TW

'The Korean War as a Phenomenon Between Myth and Propaganda'

  • Affiliation: Institute of Asian Studies, CZ

'Propaganda, Time, and Rule in North Korea'