<Career>
- Chair, Interdisciplinary Program of Area Studies, Graduate School, Yonsei University
- Director, Kim Dae-Jung Presidential Library and Center for Human Peace and Healing, Yonsei University
Distinguished Foreign Visiting Professor, Jilin University

<Publications>
- The Origins and Coming of the Korean War (2 Vols.) (1996)
- The Requiem for Peace: Korea, 1950 (2002)
- History, Knowledge, and Society: Korean War Historiographies from the Kwangju Uprising (2011)
- Design for the Future Republic (2011)
- Conditions of Human State: From Leviathan to Erysichthon (2 Vols.) (forthcoming)
- The Epitome of Global Civil War
- Interface Dynamics of Conjoined