Kevin Gray
Term
Professional affiliation
Wilson Center Projects
North Korean Reform and the Development-Security Nexus under Kim Jong Un
Full Biography
Prof. Kevin Gray’s research interests relate to the political economy of development in East Asia. He has researched widely on the region, and in particular, on the political economy of North Korea. His research has been published in in Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Contemporary Asia, The Pacific Review, North Korean Review, Globalizations, New Political Economy, Third World Quarterly and New Left Review.
His is also the author of Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation (Routledge, 2008), Labour and Development in East Asia: Social Forces and Passive Revolution (Routledge, 2015). He has co-edited volumes on (with Barry Gills) People Power in an era of global crisis: rebellion, resistance and liberation (2012); (with Craig Murphy) Rising Powers and the Future of Global Governance (2013); (with Barry Gills) Rising Powers and South-South Cooperation (2017). Most recently, he is co-author (with Jong-Woon Lee) of North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development (2021).
Major Publications
Publications:
Kevin Gray (with Jong-Woon Lee), North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Kevin Gray, “Turning Marx on His Head?: North Korean Juche as Developmental Nationalism,” in Critical Asian Studies, (55:2, 2023), pp.261-281.
Kevin Gray (with Jong-Woon Lee), "Cause for optimism? Financial sanctions and the rise of the Sino-North Korean border economy." Review of International Political Economy, (24: 3, 2017), pp. 424-453.