Mason Richey is a professor of international politics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea) and a senior contributor at Asia Society Korea. Dr. Richey has also held positions as a POSCO Visiting Research Fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu, HI) and a DAAD Scholar at the University of Potsdam. His research focuses on European foreign and security policy, as well as US foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific. Recent scholarly articles have appeared (inter alia) in Political Science, Pacific Review, Asian Security, Global Governance, Journal of International Peacekeeping, and Foreign Policy Analysis. Shorter analyses and opinion pieces have been published in War on the Rocks, Le Monde, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, and Forbes, among other venues.