Edward is a Departmental Lecturer in International Relations. His research concerns the politics and international relations of the Korean Peninsula and East Asia, with a particular interest in North Korean foreign policy, inter-Korean and DPRK-US relations, the international relations of Northeast Asia, and the UK's relations with the Korean Peninsula. His latest monograph, North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order: When Bad Behaviour Pays, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Edward has also published several articles in International Affairs as well as The Korea Europe Review. He frequently offers analysis for national and international media, including for The Spectator, BBC World News, and The Telegraph. Edward is also the Korea Foundation Fellow at The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London.
Teaching
Edward teaches all of the FHS papers in International Relations, namely International Relations (214); International Relations in the era of the Cold War (213); International Relations in the era of Two World Wars (212); and the Special Subject in Politics: International Security and Conflict (297). He also teaches the Politics in China (227) optional paper, as well as the Introduction to the Practice of Politics (First Public Examination). At graduate level, Edward teaches the core M.Phil. in International Relations paper, 'The Development of the International System and Contemporary Debates in International Relations Theory’. He is the course convenor for the M.Phil. option, 'The International Relations of East Asia.'
Publications
'Book Review: The sister: the extraordinary story of Kim Yo Jong, the most powerful woman in North Korea', International Affairs, 100(1), 2024, 453-454
North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order: When Bad Behaviour Pays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)
'Securitization during Crises: the Korean Peninsula and the East Asian regional order', Korea Europe Review, 5, 2023
‘The juche H-bomb? North Korea, nuclear weapons and regime-state survival’ International Affairs, 96(4), 2020, pp. 1051-1068
‘Book Review: Becoming Kim Jong Un: a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator’ International Affairs, 97(1), 2021, 254-256
Selected Media Publications
Will North Korea send troops to Ukraine? The Spectator, 2 July 2024.
Kim-Putin ‘strategic partnership’ leaves US and allies with multi-pronged problem, Chatham House: Expert Comment, 21 June 2024.
Can Britain help address the ‘North Korea problem’?, Council on Geostrategy, 7 February 2024.
North Korea is now holding a US soldier hostage: his fate remains utterly unknown The Telegraph, 19 July 2023.
North Korea’s missile launch is a major escalation UnHerd, 13 April 2023
‘What’s going on with Covid in North Korea?’ BBC World Service Newshour, 30 June 2021 (radio interview)
