Faculty Spotlight

Professor Stephan M. Haggard

Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies; Director of the Korea-Pacific Program (KPP)

Stephan Haggard received his PhD in political science from Berkeley in 1983, and taught in the department of government at Harvard University from 1983 to 1991. Haggard was named director of the Korea-Pacific Program in 1999. He earlier served as director of the University of California's system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), based at UC San Diego. He has written extensively on the politics and economics of the Korean peninsula. Haggard can provide commentary on current developments in the Asia-Pacific, including Korea in particular, and on the politics of economic reform and globalization.

He has recently turned his attention to the study of the North Korean economy in a new book with Marcus Noland entitled Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid and Reform (Columbia University Press, 2007) that is an in-depth account of the regime of Kim Jong Il and the famine of the 1990s that caused the death of up to one million people. Click here for an excerpt. Click here for the New York Sun review of the book. To read Haggard and Nolan's description of the book on the Page 69 Test blog, click here. Haggard and Noland's commentary on the issue was published in the International Herald Tribune. To read it, click here. To read the Financial Time's review of the book, please click here.

Haggard and Noland have also issued a report on the North Korean refugee issue (The North Korean Refugee Crisis: Human Rights and International Response, ed. with Marcus Noland) that discusses the results from a refugee survey and recent Chinese and South Korean policies toward the North Korean refugees in China. Click here to view the report.

Haggard also held a conference at Yale University (with his co-author Marcus Noland) on the North Korean Refugee Crisis. Click here to read more about the conference.

Along with Professor Barry Naughton of IR/PS and Dr. Tai Ming Cheung of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), Haggard has recently received a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation to pursue research on China-North Korea economic relations, and their strategic consequences. This research involves a survey of Chinese firms doing business in North Korea, and will consider North Korean-South Korean economic relations as well.

Haggard and co-author Noland recently published an Op-ed piece in the KoreAm journal entitled Aid to North Korea. Additionally, a recent paper was covered in the Korean press. In the paper, Haggard and Noland contrasted economic interaction between the Koreas with that between North Korea and China.

Recently, Haggard completed a paper with James Long regarding the efforts of the U.S. to encourage institional developments in Irag that would contribute to national reconciliation and mitigate sectarian and insurgent violence. Click here to access the paper. Haggard and Long co-authored an Op-ed piece in the San Diego Union-Tribune on this topic as well.

Haggard is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Affairs, a Visiting Fellow of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and has been a visiting scholar at the World Bank and the OECD. He has testified before Congress on the Asian financial crisis and on food aid to North Korea and written a number of opinion pieces on Korea for publications including the International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, and San Diego Union Tribune.

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Click here to read an interview with Haggard in the Seoul Shinmun (in Korean)