Justin V. Hastings University of Sydney

Justin V. Hastings is Australian Research Council Future Fellow, as well as Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney in Australia.

He received an AB from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 2001, and an MA (2003) and PhD (2008) in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively on North Korea's economy, strategic goals, and nuclear proliferation, including:

1. A Most Enterprising Country: North Korea in the Global Economy (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2016). Hardcover and Electronic.

2. "Lithium Research Networks and North Korea's Quest for a Hydrogen Bomb" (with Robert Kelley and Haneol Lee), Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 30 no. 3 (2018): 303-317.

3. "Informal Trade along the China-North Korea Border" (with Yaohui Wang), Journal of East Asian Studies 18 no. 2 (2018): 181-203.

4. “Chinese Firms’ Troubled Relationship with Market Transformation in North Korea” (with Yaohui Wang), Asian Survey 57 no. 4 (2017): 618-640.

5. “The Economic Geography of North Korean Drug Trafficking Networks,” Review of International Political Economy 22 no. 1 (2015): 162-193.

Hastings' data was collected during, and his previous North Korea-related publications are the result of, a grant from the (non-US) Australian Research Council (Discovery Project grant DP140102098), which provided 120,000 AUD between 2014 and 2019 for research on "The World's Most Enterprising Country: North Korea's Survival in the Global Economy."