From 3:00 pm to 3:45 pm HST, Ms. Jo will present on her project Varieties of Hedging: Foreign Policy Improvisation in the Shadow of Great Power Competition. Eun A Jo (ROK) is a PhD Candidate in Government at Cornell University. She is interested in national narratives, memory, and the domestic politics of international reconciliation, with a focus on East Asia. In her dissertation, she examines how states narrate their former enemies, through a comparative study of South Korea and Taiwan. She is an incoming 2022-2023 Predoctoral Fellow at the George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, a 2022 Taiwan Fellow, and a 2021-2022 Korea Foundation Fellow of the Pacific Forum. Prior to her study, Eun A worked as an advisor in international security at the South Korean Permanent Mission to the United Nations. She holds a BA from University College Utrecht, Utrecht University, and an MPP from Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University.