My name is Jeffrey Robertson, aka Junotane. Welcome (back) to my Substack!
I’m a diplomat-scholar, sometimes analyst, and always budding fiction writer, living life one day at a time… I’m a professor in the Seoul SKY with over twenty-five years government, academic, and consultancy experience working on operational and analytical foreign policy and diplomacy issues in the Korean Peninsula region.
Foreign policy and diplomacy is full of pretense. It’s weighed down by old men in suits with dandruff on their shoulders and flashy, overly-serious looking dopes rehashing alarmist tropes. Much of the analysis and assessment fed to the public is trash. This site seeks to disrupt the narratives we accept as the norm and rethink how foreign policy and diplomacy should work. Foreign policy and diplomacy (particulaly on the Korean Peninsula) need a rethink! We need disruption!
Featured on BBC, CNA, CNBC, Arirang, and ABC, the research explored here acts as a one-stop shop (1) to better understand the region; and (2) to better understand how we interpret and communicate knowledge about the region.
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Korea and its region are dynamic – it will have changed by the time you read this!
