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<p><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#073763"><img width="600" style="width:6.25in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://hs-5031070.f.hubspotstarter.net/hub/5031070/hubfs/465be938-2102-45c3-ae70-abb6f91ad5a2.jpg?width=1200&upscale=true&name=465be938-2102-45c3-ae70-abb6f91ad5a2.jpg" alt="465be938-2102-45c3-ae70-abb6f91ad5a2"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></b></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#073763"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#073763">Call for Papers: 2021 Academic Paper Series</span></strong><span style="color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Proposal Submission Deadline: Friday, December 4, 2020</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">The Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) is issuing a call for papers for the next round of its Academic Paper Series—a program to generate academic papers and a public discussion
of issues related to the Korean Peninsula and affecting the U.S.-Republic of Korea alliance. KEI has commissioned over one hundred papers in this series so far on a variety of topics. To read the individual papers and learn more about the series, please refer
to the KEI website (<a href="https://hs-5031070.t.hubspotstarter-h1.net/e2t/tc/VVsh3v7lzqKwW6Pl0b355TdghW4WpcsS4gm_NzN4MwsgD3p_b1V1-WJV7CgLrNN2BbmYKXv4L1W3LcslQ211WVlVyq2cZ6FD_fvW2-slx92tKNTkW31p5FL8HnvlcW6K4NhH8BKD2pVzXTgf1YD8NBW82_7423GZVwKW5RCdMl1VSFJyW185y-L4WCyjgW5jLv9_6Zt3v6W1pwp1_2TPNmwW1Lc1B444Yj1sN21wv3rMJmcdW1__kGW9kVrC2W6LYkDv1N96wCW71xL248jM1HRVY2WzP10r0TdW4MlCc07SZwWtW3lx4Cl2QhNqsW3H2Mkg5N5Q6LW3lMqkJ4XrhJkW8xYFsD4WPx-3W7MJnWC4p3408W8MGpBS1jkYwcW44zzzN1d98K1W6gQ2hn85x4s5W3FJjmG66vg0kN8Bzrb7LY_z0N7TnpLnRqc0x3hQj1" target="_blank"><span style="color:#073763">here</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">KEI is now seeking proposals for papers to be released in 2021 on original subjects of current interest to serious Korea watchers. Proposal topics should correspond with the interests
and expertise of the author, and the description should demonstrate confidence that they would make good additions to this well-rounded series. KEI is interested in papers concerning South Korean politics and economics, South Korea’s international economic
and international security relations, and innovative ideas on North Korea. Topics of particular interest this year include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Issues in South Korea’s handling of COVID-19, particularly:
<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Domestic challenges in the near- to medium-term, and<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The impact of diagnostic kit export-led diplomacy;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">How South Korea can navigate regional geopolitics amid the intensifying U.S.-China strategic competition, including in areas such
as: <o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Decoupling of high-tech industries between China and the U.S., and<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Regional diplomatic initiatives and groupings;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A roadmap for U.S.-Korea relations after the 2020 U.S. Presidential elections; and ·<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">South Korea’s evolving soft power in the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p><strong><o:p> </o:p></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Papers must be written exclusively for KEI, i.e., not have been presented or published previously in any form.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Authors of papers selected by KEI for the KEI Academic Paper Series will receive an honorarium of $1,500 upon completion of the editorial process. KEI will arrange a mutually convenient
date for each author to participate in an ON-THE-RECORD public discussion of his/her selected paper. Depending on the guidance of health officials at the time of the program, the author will either present their research at the KEI conference facilities in
Washington, DC or remotely via videoconference. KEI strongly prefers the event coincide with the release of the author’s completed paper. Should conditions allow, KEI will provide travel and accommodation expenses for the discussion program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Papers will need to be approximately 4,000–5,000 words in length. KEI will edit, publish, and distribute finished papers as KEI Academic Papers to government officials, think tank
experts, and scholars around the United States and the world. Individual papers will be published online to coincide with the author’s presentation date. KEI will also collate papers to become chapters in Volume 15 of On Korea, which will be published in print
in the beginning of 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Interested authors should submit the following information:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Full Name<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Academic/Institutional Affiliation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">CV Paper<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Topic Proposal, which includes:
<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A description of the ideas and arguments for the paper<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A description of the policy relevance or importance of this paper<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A proposed outline for the paper<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#444444;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Earliest/latest date paper can be available<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">KEI will be accepting proposals until December 4, 2020. KEI will have all decisions made on papers by January 15, 2021. Authors of accepted proposals will be separately notified
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Please submit your paper proposal to
<a href="mailto:publication@keia.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#073763">publication@keia.org</span></a>. For any substantive questions related to the Academic Paper series, please contact Kyle Ferrier, Fellow and Director of Academic Affairs, at
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