Biography

 Andrew Yeo is Ordinary Professor of Politics at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and also a Senior Fellow and the SK-Korea Foundation Chair at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Asia Policy Studies. He is the author or co-editor of six books including Great Power Competition and Overseas Bases: Chinese, Russian, and American Force Posture in the 21st Century” (Brookings Institution Press, 2024);  State, Society, and Markets in North Korea (Cambridge University Press 2021); and Asia’s Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century (Stanford University Press, 2019). Dr. Yeo is currently completing a book project examining the role of narratives and South Korean foreign policy and grand strategy.

Dr. Yeo’s research and teaching interests include international relations theory, Asian security, narratives and discourse, the formation of beliefs, ideas, and worldviews, civil society, social and transnational movements, U.S. grand strategy and global force posture, Korean politics, and North Korea. Dr. Yeo’s scholarly publications have appeared in International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Journal of East Asian Studies, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific among others. His other writings and media commentary have appeared in a variety of outlets including the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg, The Hill, The Dispatch, NPR, Fox, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, and BBC.

Dr. Yeo is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the National Committee on North Korea. He was awarded the Young Faculty Scholar's Award from Catholic University in 2013. He is a two-time recipient of a U.S. Fulbright scholar award conducting research as a senior scholar in the Philippines in 2020 and as a graduate student in South Korea in 2005-2006. He received his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, and BA in Psychology and International Studies magna cum laude, from Northwestern University.

Honors and Appointments

Senior Fellow, Mansfield Foundation, 2020-2022

Fulbright Grant, 2019

Director, Asian Studies Program, 2015 - 2020

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington Research Consortium on Korea, 2016-2021

Fellow, Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies, 2013 - present

Mansfield Foundation – Korean Foundation Next Generation Scholar, 2013-15

Young Faculty Award for Achievement in Research, Catholic University of America, 2013