Ki-Joon Hong is a professor at the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies (GIP), Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. He studied at the University of Leuven in Belgium for his MA and Ph.D from 1990 to 1996. He currently serves as President of the Korean Society of Contemporary European Studies. His major publications include The CSCE Security Regime formation: An Asian Perspective (Macmillan, 1997), “Path Emergence on the Korean Peninsula: From Division to Unification,” Pacific Focus, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2012, “The Six-Party Talks in the Post-Kim Jong-il Era: An Emergent Path toward a Northeast Asian Security Mechanism,” North Korean Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2012, “The Unintended Consequences of the Helsinki Final Act: A Path Emergence Theory Perspective,” International Political Science Review, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2013, “Institutional Multilateralism in Northeast Asia: A Path Emergence Theory Perspective,” Asian Studies Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2015. “Dynamics of Network Resonance: The Case of the Transnational Helsinki Network,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 71, No. 2, 2019.