Special Issue Call for Papers

The journal Asia and the Global Economy is a new journal sponsored by the Asia Economic Community Forum (AECF) and published by Elsevier (www.journals.elsevier.com/asia-and-the-global-economy/). The journal will publish rigorous research that has clear policy implications for the Asian economies, or for their mutual cooperation or for the role of Asian economies in the global economic system. To this end we are soliciting papers for a special issue devoted to Korean Unification. For papers accepted and published in 2021, the open access fee will be waived, allowing authors to have the widest possible exposure for their contributions.


Korean Unification
While the unification of the two Koreas seems to have been pushed back to a distant future by recent events, history teaches that national unifications happen unexpectedly and at times quite quickly (consider the reunification of East and West Germany). Thus, this is an appropriate time to reconsider past work on this topic and to examine how changes in the global economy and in the political relations among Asian countries will affect potential unification.

We invite both empirical papers and papers with broad conceptual approaches. All papers should have a conclusions section that identifies clear policy implications for Asian economies.

Professor Byung-Yeon Kim (kimby@snu.ac.kr) will serve as the Guest Editor for this Special Issue. Interested authors should contact him with proposals.


Thank you.