[KS] CfP Special Issue: Korea Europe Review

[Francesca Frassineti]

Dear All,

As the issue's guest editor, I have the pleasure of announcing that the *Korea
Europe Review *(KER) is now inviting submission proposals for Issue No. 5
“Framing Sustainable Security on the Korean Peninsula” (forthcoming:
November 2023).
Please share the call for papers below with your networks.
For more information about the journal, visit
https://www.korea-europe-review.org/index.php/ker/index
Thanks so much.

Kind regards,
Francesca Frassineti

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CfP now open for No. 5 “Framing Sustainable Security on the Korean
Peninsula”
The *Korea Europe Review (KER)* is an interdisciplinary platinum open
access, peer-reviewed journal specialising in Korean Studies and
encompassing the social sciences in a broad sense. While the primary focus
is on the Korean peninsula, the journal’s perspective aims to transcend the
traditional boundaries of Area Studies in its mission to integrate
scholarship on Korea in a multidimensional context of regional as well as
global social, cultural, and political discourse.
The *Korea Europe Review *is now inviting submission proposals for Issue 5
forthcoming in November 2023.
July 2023 will mark the seventieth anniversary of the Korean War Armistice
Agreement. Still, the Korean peninsula continues to be one of the major
security hotspots in East Asia, stuck in repeating action-reaction cycles.
In addition to a high concentration of military assets for deterrence
purposes within a geographically limited space and the ensuing increased
escalation risk, broader competition between great powers has continually
constrained and overridden local dynamics, which further complicates the
already precarious status quo on the peninsula.
Beyond concerns over power imbalances across the conventional and nuclear
domain, Koreans have also been faced with new, non-traditional security
challenges. The regime of Kim Jong Un appears unwilling to ease isolation
any time soon regardless of the international community warning of a
looming humanitarian crisis in North Korea, further exacerbated by more
frequent extreme weather events. Rather, Pyongyang has sought to take
advantage of Washington’s tense relationship with Russia and China in the
context of the war in Ukraine to progress towards a number of military
development goals with relative impunity.
Against the backdrop of COVID-19 and fierce competition between the US and
China, Seoul – on the other hand – has been progressively drawn into the
middle of new fault lines, particularly with regards to the technological
field. In the midst of global protectionist trends and efforts to
securitise supply chains, the South Korean government has increasingly
turned to new and emerging technologies to address the far-reaching
implications of lower birth rates and a shrinking workforce. Although
intensive digitalisation could push sustainable economic growth, it has
already made South Korea a more vulnerable target of an ever-expanding and
increasingly sophisticated spectrum of cyber operations that have been
largely ascribed to North Korean state-sponsored actors. Besides using the
cyber domain to carry out interference and espionage activities, the
impacts of longstanding sanctions and COVID-19 induced blockades have led
to a surge in Pyongyang’s alleged cyber activism aimed at generating
illicit income. Faced with the specter of evolving and increasing
cyberattacks, South Korea is forced to strengthen the resilience of
critical infrastructure and take cooperation with the United States,
European Union and NATO to the next level.
The issue titled “Framing Sustainable Security on the Korean Peninsula”
seeks to approach the evolving security environment on and around the
Korean peninsula from a holistic perspective, which encompasses
politico-military, economic, environmental, and human factors. Besides the
regional level, the aim is to shed light also on the challenges pertaining
to the resiliency of local communities. Therefore, we are interested in
original and unpublished studies that critically engage with the changes
and ideas of security from traditional to non-traditional challenges in all
fields related to Korea.
*Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:*
a) Human security (i.e. economic, food, health, environmental, personal,
community, and political security)
b) Demographics with main focus on citizenship
c) The relationship between new media and subjective well-being and
emotions (including cyber bullying, fake news, internet activism)
d) Economic security, economic coercion, technology, and innovation
e) South Korea’s contribution to regional and global security and
cooperation with like-minded partners such as European and NATO countries
(including overseas development assistance, health diplomacy, maritime
security, territorial disputes)
f) Crisis management and contingency planning on the Korean peninsula
(including alliance politics, defense industry, conventional and
non-conventional military capabilities, strategic doctrine)
Please be sure to submit full-length articles no later than April 30, 2023.
You are also welcome to discuss your ideas with our editors or equally send
in an abstract prior to this date.
If you have any queries concerning your proposal as regards focus or
thematic scope, please contact the issue’s guest editor Francesca
Frassineti (University of Bologna and Ca’ Foscari University Venice) at
francescafrassineti7 at gmail.com. For all other inquiries as regards the
publication process, author and stylistic guidelines, please contact
editors at korea-europe-review.org
A note on article processing charges (APCs): At no stage of the publication
process will *KER* charge author fees for publication. All publication
services rendered, e.g. peer review, editing, formatting etc., are completely
free to our authors.
Please also note that in addition to calls with particular thematic foci,
the *Korea Europe Review* also welcomes submissions on a continual
year-round basis.

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Francesca Frassineti, Ph.D. (she/her)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Bologna

Adjunct Professor, Ca' Foscari University Venice
Associate Research Fellow, Italian Institute for International Political
Studies (ISPI)
E-mail: francescafrassineti7 at gmail.com

Twitter: @Fra_Frassineti
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