Aram Hur
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Public lectures & panels


"Unpacking South Korea's Snap Presidential Election." The Korea Society. June 4, 2025.
"South Korea's Presidential Election." CSIS Capital Cable. May 22, 2025.
"Martial Law Implications for South Korea and the US-Korea Relationship." The Korea Society. December 11, 2024.
"How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia," Book talk at The Korea Society. October 13, 2023.
"South Korea's Demographic Challenge." The Korea Society. January 12, 2023.
"How South Korea's National Story Shapes Its Democracy." Carnegie Endowment. 2021.
"Korea's Changing National Story and Democratic Future." The Korea Society. May 6, 2021.

Podcasts


"Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia." New Books Network. March 3, 2023.

"The Upside of Nationalism." Scope Conditions. October 18, 2020.

Op-eds & other writings

"What America Should Learn from South Korea's Democratic Crisis." The Hill. January 3, 2025.
  • Cited "Democratic Ceilings: The Long Shadow of Nationalist Polarization in East Asia." Comparative Political Studies 57.4 (2024): 584-612.
"Young South Koreans Don't Trust a State That Betrays Them." Foreign Policy. November 17, 2022.
  • Cited Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia. Cornell University Press, 2022.

"Why Taiwan's Humanitarian Assistance to Hong Kong Matters." Foreign Policy. July 2, 2020.
  • Cited "Citizen Duty and the Ethical Power of Communities: Mixed-method Evidence from East Asia." British Journal of Political Science 50(3): 1047-1065.

"Historic highs in 2018 voter turnout extended across racial and ethnic groups," Pew Research Center. May 1, 2019.
  • Cited "Coding Voter Turnout Responses in the Current Population Survey." Public Opinion Quarterly 77(4): 985-993.

"The next 'Korea problem' may be about the growing identity divide on the peninsula." Washington Post.  February 21, 2018.
  • Cited "Adapting to Democracy: National Identity and the Political Development of North Korean Defectors." Journal of East Asian Studies 18(1): 97-115.

"For every 10 U.S. adults, six votes and four don't. What separates them?" New York Times. September 13, 2016.
  • Cited "Coding Voter Turnout Responses in the Current Population Survey." Public Opinion Quarterly 77(4): 985-993.
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