Author: David I. Steinberg | Journal of Democracy

David I. Steinberg is serving concurrently as director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University and as the Asia Foundation’s representative for Korea. Formerly a senior foreign service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development, he lived for 17 years in Asia, where he traveled widely. His books include The Republic of Korea: Economic Transformation and Social Change (1989). The views presented in this essay are solely his own.

Articles by David I. Steinberg:

April 1998, Volume 9, Issue 2

Korea: Triumph Amid Turmoil

David I. Steinberg

Books:

Consolidating Democracy in South Korea

Larry Diamond
Byung-Kook Kim

"Well worth reading…. A high-quality comparative political science analysis of democratic consolidation in South Korea."—Mette Skak, Political Studies