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• Dr. Robert J. Bookmiller
• Dr. Richard A. Glenn (Chair)
• Dr. Charles E. Greenawalt II
• Dr. Adam Lawrence
• Dr. Manwoo Lee

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Contact Information

Ms. Lianna Stewart, Department Secretary
Department of Government and Political Affairs
Millersville University
Fulton House – North George Street
P.O. Box 1002
Millersville, PA 17551-0302

lianna.stewart@millersville.edu

Phone: (717) 872-3550
Fax: (717)-871-2133

Dr. Manwoo Lee

Professor of Government and Political Affairs

• Phone: (717) 872-3545
• Fax: (717) 871-2133
• E-Mail: manwoo.lee@millersville.edu
• Fall 2009 Office Hours: MWF: 10:00-11:00am; and TR: 9:30-10:30am

Education:

• Ph.D., Columbia University
• M.A., Columbia University
• B.A., Baldwin-Wallace College
• Certificate in Russian Language, Pushkin Institute, Moscow, 1979

• GOVT 101: Introduction to Political Studies (two sections)
• GOVT 221: Introduction to Comparative Political Systems (two sections)

Professional Experience:

• Professor of Political Science, Millersville University, 1972-present.
• Associate Professor of Political Science, Millersville University, 1970-1972.
• Assistant Professor of Political Science, Millersville University, 1968-1970.
• Assistant Professor of Political Science, Western Illinois University, 1965-1968.
• Advisory editor, Asian Affairs, Contemporary U.S.-Asia Research Institute, New York, 1992-present.
• Co-founder and advisory editor, The Journal of Developing Areas, Western Illinois University, 1968-1999.
• Associate in the University Seminar on Korea, Columbia University, 1980-1987.
• Guest scholar, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, California, March to June 1979.
• Chairperson, Department of Political Science, Millersville University, 1972-1976.

• Faculty Senator
• Evaluation Committee chairperson
• Search committee Chairperson
• International Studies Committee
• Convocation Speaker Committee
• Lancaster County Human Rights Commissioner

• Comparative Political Systems
• Soviet Political Institutions
• Political Systems of East Asia: China, Japan and the two Koreas
• Latin American Political Institutions
• International Relations

• Introduction to Political Science
• Soviet Political Institutions
• Latin American Political Institutions
• Political Institutions of East Asia
• Foreign Policies of Developing Areas
• Soviet-American Relations
• International Relations
• American National Government
• Legislative Process

Publications:

• Books
  • Manwoo Lee, Culture and Development (Seoul:UNESCO-IFES, 1994).
  • The Odyssey of Korean Democracy: Korean Politics, 1987-1990 (New York: Praeger, 1990).
  • The Changing Order in Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1993).
  • Current Issuess in Korean-U.S.Relations (Seoul: IFES, 1993).
  • Alliance Under Tension: The Evolution of South Korean-U.S. Relations (Westview Press, 1988).
• Book Chapters
  • "Alternative to Unification: A Vision of Diverse Korean Communities in the Twenty First Century in B.C. Koh, ed. Korea: Dynamics of Deplomacy and Unification (Claremont: the Keck Center for International Strategic Studies Monograph Series, 2001)
  • "South Korea’s Politics of Succession and the December 1992 Presidential Election," in James Cotton ed. Politics and Policy in the New Korean State (New York: St.Martin’s Press, 1995).
  • "Domestic Politics and Unification: Seoul’s Perspective," in Y.W. Kihled. Korea and the World (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1994).
  • "Changes in South Korea and Inter-Korean Relations," in Y,W.Kihl and Geroge Steinberg ed. Rethinking the Korean Peninsula (Washington D.C: Georgetown University-Asian Studies Center, 1993).
  • "North Korea and the Western Notion of Human Rights," James Hsiung ed., Human Rights in East Asia. (Paragon House Publishers, 1985).
  • "Soviet Perceptions of South Korea: The Prospects for Normalization of Relations Between the Soviet Union and South Korea," in T.H. Kwak, W. Patterson and E. Olsen, ed., The Two Koreas in World Politics. (The Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University, 1983).
  • "North Korea and Latin America" in Jae Kyu Park ed., The Foreign Relations of North Korea. (Westview Press, 1987).
  • "How North Korea Sees Itself," In C. I. Eugene Kim and B.C. Koh, ed., Journey To North Korea: Personal Perceptions. (University of California, East Asian Institute, 1983). Translated in Japanese and Korean.
• Articles
  • "Sunset for Kim Dae-jung's Sunshine Policy?" Current History, April 2002
  • "North Korea: The Cold War Continues," Current History, December 1996.
  • "Pyongyang and Washington: Dynamics of Changing Relations," Asian Perspective, Fall-Winter 1995.
  • "The Two Koreas and the Unification Game," Current History, December 1993.
  • "South Korean Anti-Americanism," Scholars, Fall 1990.
  • "Domestic Factors Influencing the Korean Unification Process," Asian Perspective, Summer, 1986.
  • "Some Reflections on Soviet Influence in East Asia," Asian Perspective, Fall-Winter, 1986.
  • "North Korea Changing Course?" Asian Perspective, Spring-Summer, 1985.
  • "Pride and Paranoia Mix in a Paradoxical Paradise," Far Eastern Economic Review, February 2, 1984.
  • "Korean Reconciliation: A Two Track Diplomacy?", The American Asian Review (Asian Affairs) Summer, 1983.
  • "North Korean Perceptions of the U.S. Role in Korea," Korea Observer, Winter, 1982.
  • "The Prospects for Normalization of Relations Between Moscow and Seoul," Korea and World Affairs, Spring, 1980.
  • "China After Mao: The End of One Era and the Beginning of Another," Chinese Affairs, September, 1978.
  • "Argentine Political Instability: A Crisis of Simultaneous Quest for Authority and Equality," The Journal of Inter-American Studies, October 1969.