Hun Joon Kim

Human rights prosecutions have been the major policy innovation of the late twentieth century designed to address human rights violations. The main justification for such prosecutions is that sanctions are necessary to deter future violations. In this article, we use our new data set on domestic and international human rights prosecutions in 100 transitional countries to explore whether prosecuting human rights violations can decrease repression. We find that human rights prosecutions after tran

Abstract Two parallel norms mandate an international duty to hold state leaders individually accountable for serious corruption and human rights crimes. The development of these new norms is poorly explained by realist and neoliberal perspectives, but there are also weaknesses in recent constructivist explanations of norm diffusion that emphasize agency at the expense of structure. Such approaches have difficulty explaining the source of and similarities between new norms, and treat norm entrepr

Abstract Over the last three decades, a growing number of countries have experienced a transition from authoritarianism to democracy, and the new governments have been increasingly expected to address past human rights violations. While the academic literature on the impact of human rights prosecution is relatively well developed, the literature on the causes of such prosecution is still sparse. Why do states pursue criminal prosecutions against former state officials on the charge of human righ

The study of International Relations in China has dramatically increased over the past 30 years. Scholars have now developed a Chinese School(s) of International Relations theory, or at least, International Relations theory with ‘Chinese characteristics’. This recent Chinese move is neither new nor the first attempt, but located within larger efforts to move away from Anglo-Saxon dominance within the International Relations discipline by localizing International Relations theory. From this stand

In The Massacres at Mt. Halla, Hun Joon Kim presents a compelling story of state violence, human rights advocacy, and transitional justice in South Korea since 1947. The "Jeju 4.3 events" were a series of armed uprisings and counterinsurgency actions that occurred between 1947 and 1954 in the rugged landscape around Mt. Halla in Jeju Province, South Korea. The counterinsurgency strategy was extremely brutal, involving mass arrests and detentions, forced relocations, torture, indiscriminate killi

Abstract This chapter examines the nature and development of universal human rights in the context of global international society after the publication of The Expansion. The perennial problem of universal human rights has involved two issues: first, despite human rights being a highly institutionalized and legalized area in world politics, it is also marked by weak enforcement mechanisms; and second, the principle of universal human rights has always been in conflict with the basic organizing p

Human rights prosecutions are one of the main policy innovations transitional regimes use to address past human rights violations and to prevent future ones.In this article, the authors found that not only those prosecutions that resulted in conviction, but also broader prosecution processes themselves, are associated with improvements in future human rights conditions. 1 The authors found that human rights prosecutions are especially effective in deterring future torture cases and that even tho

In recent years, the number of truth commissions in countries around the world has continued to increase, and their scope and functions have become much broader. There is, however, still a need for a comprehensive theoretical framework that will enable scholars to explain the truth commission phenomenon. In this article, I will outline a new theoretical framework that combines social movement theory and transnational advocacy networks theory. I will then apply this framework to the South Korean

Objectives Why do states create a truth commission after political transition? This article answers this question by testing three key theories after surveying the existing literature: transnational advocacy networks, the balance of power between old and new elites, and diffusion theory. Methods Cox proportional hazards models were used to explain the adoption of a truth commission. I used the Transitional Justice Database Project database on truth commissions in 71 countries that became democra

Relatively few systematic and categorical studies have been conducted on the variant responses by East Asian states to the rise of China, and even fewer dealt with reasons for such intra-regional variations. This study seeks to fill the void by examining the strategic responses by 15 East Asian states for the period of 2011–2016. This period merits close scrutiny because China became more explicitly assertive. The research proceeds in two phases. First, by way of reading into the expert assessme

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Abstract What are the prospects of U.S.-China relations in the area of human rights? Skeptics maintain that human rights is no longer an issue between the United States and China. A traditional understanding of U.S.–China relations ignores the role of norms, while the constructivist perspective recognizes their independent effects. This paper links the traditional understanding of power politics between the United States and China with the study of constructivist norm research. The three finding

The u.s. Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices is published annually since the late 1970s. Scholars have claimed that the reports have been improved in its quality by enhancing accuracy, funding, human resources, and training. This paper focuses on the U.s. Department of State``s reporting practice on the North Korean refugee issues for two reasons: first, because of its substantial importance, and second, due to methodological innovation in studying human rights reportin

2014년 2월 유엔인권이사회 산하의 유엔 북한인 권조사위원회는 약 1년의 조사결과를 바탕으로 372 쪽 분량의 최종 보고서를 발간했다. 같은 해 12월, 유엔 안전보장이사회는 처음으로 북한 미사일이나 핵문제가 아닌 인권문제를 의제로 채택하였고, 북한 인권에 관한 의미 있는 첫 공식 브리핑을 가졌다. 이 모든 결과는 유엔 북한인권조사위원회의 기념비 적인 최종보고서로부터 시작된 일이며, 현재까지도이 보고서는 북한 인권문제에 관한 다양한 논란의 중심에 위치해있다. 하지만, 이 보고서에 대한 면밀한 분석과 평가는 이루어지고 있지 않은 형편이다. 그래서 본 논문은 이 보고서가 채택한 접근법과 방 법, 다양한 주장의 근거를 기존 정부 및 비정부기구의 북한 인권문제 보고 경향과 비교하여 평가한다. 우선 북한인권조사위원회 최종보고서의 세 가지 성취점을 설명한 후 이것이 국제사회가 향후 위원회의 권고사항을 이행하는 데 있어 주는 함의를 분석한 다. 다음으로 보고서가 갖고 있는 한계와 문제점을 살펴