EAI MPDI Working Paper No. 12

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Scott Snyder is senior fellow for Korea studies and director of U.S.-Korea policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Snyder’s program examines South Korea’s efforts to contribute on the international stage; its potential influence and contributions as a middle power in East Asia; and the peninsular, regional, and global implications of North Korean instability. Snyder is the co-editor of North Korea in Transition: Politics, Economy, and Society (2012), and the editor of Global Korea: South Korea’s Contributions to International Security (2012) and The U.S.-South Korea Alliance: Meeting New Security Challenges (2012). He also served as the project director for CFR’s Independent Task Force on policy toward the Korean Peninsula. He currently writes for the blog, “Asia Unbound.” Prior to joining CFR, Snyder served as The Asia Foundation’s representative in Korea (2000-2004). He was also a senior associate at Pacific Forum CSIS. Mr. Snyder has worked as an Asia specialist in the research and studies program of the U.S. Institute of Peace and as acting director of Asia Society’s contemporary affairs program. He was a Pantech visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center during 2005-2006, and received an Abe fellowship, administered by the Social Sciences Research Council, in 1998-99. His published work includes China’s Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security (2009), Paved With Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea (co-editor, 2003), and Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior (1999). He has provided advice to NGOs and humanitarian organizations active in North Korea and serves on the advisory council of the National Committee on North Korea and Global Resource Services. Snyder received a BA from Rice University and an MA from the regional studies East Asia program at Harvard University and was a Thomas G. Watson fellow at Yonsei University in South Korea.

This working paper will be included in an upcoming EAI publication set to be released in Spring 2016 entitled "Transforming Global Governance with Middle Power Diplomacy: South Korea's Role in the 21st Century." Please check in soon for the latest publication updates.