{"id":19147,"date":"2025-11-24T00:19:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=19147"},"modified":"2025-11-24T00:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:19:49","slug":"news-dr-man-fung-yeung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/news-dr-man-fung-yeung\/","title":{"rendered":"[News] Dr. Man Fung YEUNG Wins the \u201c2025 Best Dissertation Award\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"132\" data-end=\"243\"><strong data-start=\"132\" data-end=\"243\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19148\" src=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/__man-fung-yeung-dissertation-prize-jpg-version-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/__man-fung-yeung-dissertation-prize-jpg-version-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/__man-fung-yeung-dissertation-prize-jpg-version-114x160.jpg 114w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/__man-fung-yeung-dissertation-prize-jpg-version.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 99vw, 213px\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dr. Man Fung YEUNG, Visiting Researcher at SNUAC, received the <i>2025 Best Dissertation Award<\/i> from the Association of International Relations, ROC\u2014the largest academic organization in Taiwan in the field of international relations\u2014on November 15, 2025, for his doctoral dissertation titled \u201cAbandonment Anxieties and Alliance Coercive Diplomacy: A Case Study of China\u2013North Korea Relations (1992\u20132022).\u201d<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The dissertation investigates the evolution of China\u2013North Korea relations from 1992 to 2022, focusing on how North Korea has managed its persistent <span class=\"s1\">abandonment anxieties<\/span> toward China. Developing the concept of <span class=\"s1\">\u201calliance coercive diplomacy,\u201d<\/span> the study argues that North Korea has at times deliberately undermined or threatened China\u2019s geopolitical interests in order to extract renewed commitments from its patron. By analyzing major diplomatic and strategic interactions between China and North Korea over a thirty-year period, the dissertation proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding asymmetric alliance politics and the strategies through which weaker allies attempt to influence stronger ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Dr. Man Fung YEUNG, Visiting Researcher at SNUAC, received the 2025 Best Dissertation Award from the Association of International Relations, ROC\u2014the largest academic organization in Taiwan in the field of international relations\u2014on November 15, 2025, for his doctoral dissertation titled \u201cAbandonment Anxieties and Alliance Coercive Diplomacy: A Case Study of China\u2013North Korea Relations (1992\u20132022).\u201d The dissertation investigates the evolution of China\u2013North Korea relations from 1992 to 2022, focusing on how North Korea has managed its persistent abandonment anxieties toward China. Developing the concept of \u201calliance coercive diplomacy,\u201d the study argues that North Korea has at times deliberately undermined or threatened China\u2019s geopolitical interests in order to extract renewed commitments from its patron. By analyzing major diplomatic and strategic interactions between China and North Korea over a thirty-year period, the dissertation proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding asymmetric alliance&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19149,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147\/revisions\/19149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}