Im, Hyug Baeg is a professor of political science and international relations at Korea University in Seoul. He is also the dean of the Graduate School of Policy Studies, the director of the Institute for Peace Studies, and the director of BK21 Globalizing Korean Political Science Corps. He received his B.A. in political science from Seoul National University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He was visiting professor at Georgetown University (1995–1996), Duke University (1997), Stanford University (2002–2003), and a visiting fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C. (1995–1996). He served as a presidential advisor during the Kim Dae Jung and Roh Moo Hyun presidencies. His current research focuses on the impact of the IT revolution and globalization on Korean democracy. His recent publications include “The Origins of the Yushin Regime: Machiavelli Unveiled” in Byung-Kook Kim and Ezra F. Vogel (eds.), The Park Chung Hee Era (Harvard University Press, 2011); and “Development and Change in Korean Democracy since the Democratic Transition in 1987: The Three Kims’ Politics and After” in Yin-wah Chu and Siu-un Wong (eds.), East Asia’s New Democracies: Deepening, Reversal, Non-Liberal Alternatives (2010). Im is well-known in Korea for the books Neo-Nomadic Democracy (Nanam, 2009); Democracy in the Era of Globalization: Realities, Theories and Reflection (Nanam, 2000); and The Market, the State, and Democracy: Korean Democratic Transition and the Theories of Political Economy (Nanam, 1994).