Doctoral Candidates
Doctoral Candidates 2020
Yura Hyeon
Drifting Happiness: Unearthing Life of Young Yemeni Refugees aged 20-30 in Jeju Island and Seoul
Erik Isaksson
DAAD-GSSP
Political Dialogues as Institutions: Resolving Conflict and Consolidating the Nation?
Chi Ho Kiang
DAAD-GSSP
The Taste of Occupation: Food, War, and Society in Occupied North China, 1937-1945
Shoko Tanaka
Probing the Link between Culture and Democracy through the Indicator Framework on Culture and Democracy (IFCD), with Case Studies in Japan
Hao Zhang
FUB-CSC
How Can Government Reform Towards The Future: Citizens’ Participatory In The Development Of Chinese Smart Cities
Yating Zhang
FUB-CSC
Starting a Market Economy – Institutions and Memories of the Reform and Opening era in China (1972-1987)
Doctoral Candidates 2019
Sarah Bijlsma
DAAD
Hybrid Landscapes: Identity, Space and the Natural World in the Context of the Okinawa ‘Migration Boom’
s.bijlsma[at]fu-berlin.de
Maja Korbecka
DAAD
Film festivals, youth & capital: negotiating the field of contemporary art cinema in China
maja.korbecka[at]yahoo.com
Jingyi Li
Home Making and Belonging in Return Migration: Korean Chinese as International Labors
lijingyi0116[at]126.com
Xuan Wen
FUB-CSC
The Villagers’ Reaction to Environmental Policy Implementation —Evidence from the Construction of Beautiful Villages
Doctoral Candidates 2018
William Fujii
DAAD
Japan's Political Institutions and East Asia Policy: Processes, Continuities, Changes, 1947 - 2017
Nakako Hattori
Domestic Constraints of an East Asian community: Ranking Frames of Japan's State Identity and Regional Political Disintegration (2003-2015)
Hyein Lee
DAAD
Buddhist Military Chaplaincy of South Korea: Inner Workings and Interplays of Ideas and Discourses
Doctoral Candidates 2017
Mei Chen
Policy Making in China's Health System
Gwendolyn Domning
Presidential Depravity Abides – Continuities and Changes of Institutionalized Corruption in South Korea since Democratization
Lenard Görögh
The Emergence of New Markets and Business Models in Present-Day Japan
John Jacobs
Japan’s Security Cooperation with Europe: Between the Bilateral US-Japan Alliance and UN Multilateralism
jjacobs[at]zedat.fu-berlin.de
Hendrik Johannemann
Cusanuswerk
Anti-LGBTI Activism in South Korea and Its Transnational Connectedness
Elizabeth Noble
A different lens: social change and female photographers in Japan in the 1990s
enoble[at]zedat.fu-berlin.de
Marina Zucker Marques
The Chinese Strategy of Renminbi Internationalization
marinazucker[at]zedat.fu-berlin.de
Doctoral Candidates 2016
Oyuna Baldakova
Win-Win on the Local Level: The Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and its Stakeholder Narratives
o.baldakova[at]fu-berlin.de
Lu Chen
DAAD
The Moving Temples--A Study on the Religious Organizations of Fishermen in the Eastern Part of Tai Lake
Olteun Kim
The Policy Decision Process beyond Anti-LGBT Politics in South Korea
Xinyi Lin
DAAD
Understanding different pathways towards low carbon transition - A comparison of urban energy transition in Germany and China
Viktória Orbán
Non-traditional Security Cooperation between Dependent Members of the US Alliance System: the Euro-Japanese Partnership
viktoria.orban[at]fu-berlin.de
Bonaventura Rescigno
Legitimacy and the production of ideas: the "new type of think tanks with Chinese characteristics"
Eva Seiwert
„China’s evolving interest in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation“
Chaline Timmerarens
The Role of Mediating Institutions for Brazilian Migrants in Japan
Marie Weishaupt
Nuclear Threat, Self-Evacuation and New Life Itineraries: An Institutional Approach to Care Provision in the Aftermath of 3.11
Weijing Xing
A Reversed Transregional Diffusion? A Study on Japan-EU cooperation
Doctoral Candidates 2015
Julia Gerster
Kizuna: The dynamics of social ties in post-disaster Japan. Impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Radiation.
Ji Young Heo
Alumna 2020
South Korea’s Understanding of Middle Power:Interests and a National Identity
Madeleine Heuer
South Korean Identities, Ideologies and the Framing of North Korean Defectors in the South Korean media
Anselm Huppenbauer
Regionalism and regionalization in the Tumen River region
Hyuk Jung
Alumnus 2020
From Saving to Shaming: The Emergence of the North Korean Human Rights Field and the Dynamics of NGO Politics, 1995-2015
Elena Korshenko
Perpetuated Instability? Life Cycle of New and Minor Parties in Japan, 2005-2016
Valeria Lotti
What women want: Beauty surgery and gender roles in Chinese urban society
Julia Teebken
Climate Vulnerability – Wicked problem or neglected responsibility? Local approaches in China and the United States
Dan Wu
Chinese Provinces and the Industrial Policy-making in China's Electric Power Sector
Yi Zhu
Shaping (online) public sphere in an authoritarian society? – How Chinese actors pushed the abolishment of the “reeducation through labor (Laojiao)”- system
Doctoral Candidates 2014
Ran Cheng
The Rising Income Inequality in China and Its Interaction with China's Economic and Political Regime
Jihye Han
The institutionalization of the Korean higher education system with regard to lifelong learning and the support system for working adults in Korea
Nina Holzschneider
Pieces in the puzzle: A trans-war history of "being Okinawan", daily life objects and local practices.
Angela Leggett
Chinese NGO monitoring of corporate environmental responsibility and firms' responses
Lisa Melcher
The multiple orders of planning: spatial development strategies for towns in rural Sichuan
Kei Namba
Japan's multi-level water governance in Southeast Asia
Jan Niggemeier
The Other Labour Movement - Community Unions' Role in Japanese Labour Revitalisation
Simon Schwenke
Institutional Change of Civilian Control in Japanese Forces
Kyong Yong Francis Yoon
The effects of tax policy on the mixed economy of welfare: a comparative study on South Korea, Japan and Germany
Ganyi Zhang
Trust, Commitment and the Incomplete Agreement: A comparative case study on the 1964 PRC-France normalization and the 1970 PRC-Canada normalization
Yifei Zhu
European Integration and the Prospects of Regionalism in Northeast Asia:A Comparative Study Based on Explanatory Integration Theory
Doctoral Candidates 2013
You Kyung Byun
100,000 Won Friends: Calculating Gifts and Debts Among Dear Friends in South Korean Institutional Network
Oul Han
Measuring Frames: Discursive Institutions in Polarized Politics
Ulv Hanssen
Japan's Temporal Others: How the Past Has Shaped Japanese Postwar Security Policy
Paul Joscha Kohlenberg
Visible and Invisible Guidance: Adaptive Institutional Change and CCP Document-Politics
Florentine Koppenborg
Climate and energy policy in Japan
Eva Liias
Higher Education in the European-Asian Relations - Role of Universities
Silvan Meier
The Organisational Transformation of Media Groups in China
Daniela Simon
The Imperial House of Japan in Times of National Crises
Eun Hee Woo
Institutional Change and Intra-Party Democracy : Mechanisms of Party Elite Recruitment in Korea and Germany
Giulia Zennaro
Change in the Institutional Field: Private Art Museums in China, 2005-2014
