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Sungmi Shin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is pursuing an NWO project titled Party-Political Contestation of the Liberal International Order led by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wagner.
Prior to her current position, she served at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Pakistan, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Jordan, and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Ecuador between 2011 and 2022.
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Her research investigates the nexus between foreign policy-making and domestic politics, with a regional focus on Japan and South Korea. It examines party-political contestation in foreign policy through the analysis of parliamentary voting behavior, aiming to identify temporal, issue-specific, and ideologically driven patterns. Her research forms part of the NWO project titled Party-Political Contestation of the Liberal International Order, which adopts a comparative perspective across three regions: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and East Asia.
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In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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- foreign policy analysis
- comparative politics
- security and defense policy
- East Asia
- party politics
- international security
- security alliance
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