Dr. Taehwan Kim is an Associate Professor of Public Diplomacy at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy(KNDA), the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Before joining KNDA in 2013, he had served as Director of Public Diplomacy at the Korea Foundation since 2008. He also taught as Research Professor at the Division of International Education of Yonsei University from 2002 and 2008. He is a book review editor for the quarterly Global Asia, published by the East Asia Foundation. Dr. Kim graduated from Yonsei University (B.A. and M.A. in Political Science) and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. His research focus is on comparative political economy of post-socialist transformation and Korea’s public diplomacy. His recent works include “Authoritarian Post-Communist Transition and Its Future in China, Vietnam, and North Korea”; “Beyond Geopolitics: South Korea’s Eurasia Initiative as a New Nordpolitik”; “Paradigm Shift in Diplomacy: A Conceptual Model for Korea’s New Public Diplomacy”; and “Can Putin Go Beyond Putinism, Or Will It Be More of the Same?”.