How does memory shape domestic and international politics? By answering this question, we can gain insight into how collective memory played a role in the failure of the South Korea–Japan reconciliation. Eun A Jo, a Predoctoral Fellow in the GW Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, explores this question in a recently published journal article. Read Memory, Institutions, and the Domestic Politics of South Korean–Japanese Relations.

Jo is also the author of the article “Japan and South Korea Are Still Haunted by the Past,” published on November 23, 2022, in Foreign Affairs Magazine.