Virginie Grzelczyk

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  • Professor in International Relations, Head of Inclusion and Development, Aston University

Virginie Grzelczyk is a Professor of International Relations and Head of Inclusion and Development at Aston University. She specialises in security relationships and negotiation patterns in East Asia, particularly on the Korean Peninsula. Prior to joining Aston, she held academic positions in the United States and New Zealand. she has studied in France and South Korea before receiving her PhD in Political Science from the University of Maryland.

Virginie's research focuses on security relationships on the Korean Peninsula, especially regarding North Korea, with publications spanning the Six-Party Talks process, North Korea’s energy security dilemma, Korean identity in the context of reunification, and the concept of crisis in Northeast Asia.

A Leverhulme Research Fellowship has supported her project on the Politics of Toys in Conflict and Post-Conflict Spheres.

Experience

  • 2013–present
    Professor, Aston University
  • 2010–2013
    Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
  • 2009–2010
    Tutor, University of Surrey
  • 2008–2008
    Visiting assistant professor, University of Victoria - Wellington
  • 2007–2008
    Visiting assistant professor, Lafayette College

Education

  • 2024 
    Aston University, Executive MBA
  • 2006 
    University of Maryland, PhD
  • 2006 
    University of Maryland, MA
  • 2002 
    Ewha Womans' University, MA

Publications

  • 2026
    Divided Korea: Understanding Unification Narratives, Book, Palgrave
  • 2024
    North Korea’s New Diplomacy: Challenging Political Isolation in the 21st Century (2nd Edition). , Book, Palgrave
  • 2024
    Cold Play: The Conflict Toy Industry in Times of (Cold) War and Peace, Book Chapter, Palgrave
  • 2023
    What Role to Play? Assessing the Republic of Korea’s Future Nuclear Diplomacy, Book Chapter, Routledge
  • 2022
    Displaying North Korean Children: From Local to Global Memories, Jeunesse
  • 2022
    Politics of Toys in Conflict and Post-Conflict Spheres: The North Korea-South Korea Toy Story, Asian Study Review
  • 2022
    Neither This Nor That: Understanding North Korea via Role Theory, Book Chapter, Palgrave
  • 2022
    North Korea’s Nuclear Strategy and Global Security, Book Chapter, Rowman and Littlefield
  • 2021
    Security dimensions in light of Changing Dynamics, Book Chapter, Routledge
  • 2021
    DPRK-Europe Economic Relationships, Book Chapter, Routledge
  • 2019
    A Future, but at What Cost? Cuba and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Quest for Sustainable Development, Third World Quarterly
  • 2019
    From Balancing to Bandwagoning: Evaluating the Impact of the Sanction Regime on North Korea-Africa relationships, North Korean Review
  • 2018
    North Korea’s New Diplomacy: Challenging Political Isolation in the 21st Century (1st Edition)., Book, Palgrave
  • 2018
    Meddling Middle Powers: Can Diplomacy Crack the North Korean Conundrum, Book Chapter, Routledge
  • 2018
    Threading on Thin Ice Conflict Dynamics on the Korean Peninsula, Asia-Europe Journal
  • 2017
    Hard, Soft, Smart? North Korea and Power: It’s All Relative, Asian International Studies Review
  • 2017
    The Coming of Age of South Korea: Power, Influence and Implications, Book Chapter, Palgrave
  • 2016
    Going It Alone? North Korea’s Adaptability as a Small Power in a Changing World, Third World Thematics
  • 2015
    The Kim Dynasty and Northeast Asian Security: Breaking the Cycle of Crises, North Korean Review
  • 2014
    New Approaches to North Korean Politics after Reunification: The Search for a Common Korean Identity, Communist and Post-Communist Studies
  • 2012
    In the Name of the Father, Son, and Grandson: Succession Patterns and the Kim Dynasty, The Journal of Northeast Asian History
  • 2012
    Uncovering North Korea’s Energy Security Dilemma: Past Policies, Present Choices, Future Opportunities, Central European Journal of International and Security Studies
  • 2012
    Failure to Re-launch? The United States, Nuclear North Korea, and the Future of the Six-Party Talks, North Korean Review
  • 2008
    Carrots and Sticks: The Making of an American Foreign Policy Toward North Korea, Korea Observer
  • 2008
    Six Party Talks and Negotiation Strategy: When Do We Get There?, International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice

Contact Virginie for

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