Marco Milani is Assistant Professor at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna. Previously,
he has been Lecturer at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Korean Studies Institute and Lecturer at the School of International Relations,
University of Southern California. He also held teaching positions at the Hankuk University of
Foreign Studies and had been visiting research fellow at the Institute for Peace and Unification
Studies (South Korea) and at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (Netherlands). He has published
numerous articles and book chapters on North and South Korea’s foreign policy, contemporary
Korean history and inter-Korean relations. He is co-editor of the book on South Korea’s foreign
policy titled The Korean Paradox: domestic political divide and foreign policy in South Korea
(Routledge, 2019). His research interests include: Korean History and Society, History and
International Relations of East Asia, North and South Korean foreign and security policy, Inter-
Korean relations, Contemporary Korean cultural production, Media and Communication in Korea
and East Asia.
