Ji-Young Lee is an Associate Professor of International Relations and the C. W. Lim and KF Professor of Korean Studies at American University’s School of International Service. She is the author of China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination (Columbia University Press, 2016). Her current book project, The Great Power Next Door (under contract with Columbia University Press), concerns historical Korea–China relations with a focus on military interventions and the impact of China’s contemporary rise on the American-led international order. She has published scholarly articles in Security Studies, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, The Pacific Review, Millennium, The Journal of East Asian Studies, and The Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law. She previously taught at Oberlin College as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. Outside academia, she served as the Korea Policy Chair and a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, and was a non-resident James Kelly Korean Studies Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS.