

Political Science
Main research areas:
- Global environmental politics
- Global governance and norm contestation
- Green transition policies
Current research
Hyeyoon Park is a postdoctoral fellow in Political Science at Lund University. Her research interests pertain to global environmental governance and policies, with specific attention to norm dynamics induced by international power politics and global inequalities.
Her PhD dissertation research focused on the rise of China and its impact on transparency norm development in global extractives governance (oil, gas, metals, and mineral sectors), drawing on realist constructivism in International Relations. Extended from this research, she explores how global environmental norms are developed through great power politics and regime complexes and how those global norms affect nature and marginalized communities on the ground, particularly in the global South. In so doing, she aims to contribute to debates on the legitimacy and accountability of global governance.
At Lund University, as part of a FORMA’s interdisciplinary project, she investigates multilevel governance on green finance and investments in decarbonising energy-intensive natural resource-based industries and policymakers’ role in the climate transition towards a low-carbon society.
Her main teaching expertise spans International Relations and Global Environmental Politics. She has taught several undergraduate-level courses in Political Science at Colorado State University in the U.S. (2019-2021).
Publications
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Part VI. Case Studies: South Korea
Hyeyoon Park
(2024) Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy
Book chapterPart III. Key Concepts in Climate Policy: Stranded Assets
Hyeyoon Park
(2024) Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy
Book chapterGlobal Norm-maker as China’s New Brand? An Analysis of the Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI)
Hyeyoon Park
(2023) The Chinese Journal of International Politics
Journal articleChina in Transnational Extractives Governance: A Mapping Exercise
Hyeyoon Park
(2023) Global Environmental Politics
Journal articleExtractive industries and mineral resources: turbulence all around
Stacy VanDeveer, Hyeyoon Park, Yixian Sun, Michele M. Betsill
(2023) Global Environmental Politics in a Turbulent Era , p.75-90
Book chapterWhen only China wants to play : Institutional turmoil and Chinese investment in Brazil
Niels Søndergaard, Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau, Hyeyoon Park
(2022) Revista Brasileira de Politica Internacional, 65
Journal articleChina and Transparency Norm Development in Global Extractives Governance
Hyeyoon Park
(2021)
DissertationAir Quality Worldwide
Hyeyoon Park
(2021) Environmental Issues Today : Choices and Challenges, 2 p.41-64
Book chapterWhy is your video conferencing in the COVID-19 crisis still polluting the environment? The answer lies in mining cobalt
Hyeyoon Park
(2020) HumanNature Blog
Web publicationKim Jong-un May Use Missiles to Mask Economic Insecurity
Hyeyoon Park
(2020) The National Interest
Journal articleAgency in a Multiscalar World
Michelle Scobie, Michele M. Betsill, Hyeyoon Park
(2020) Agency in Earth System Governance , p.108-119
Book chapterThe Rise of China in the New World Order
Hyeyoon Park
(2019) International History and Politics (IHAP) Newsletter, 4
Web publication
Introduction
Hyeyoon Park received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Colorado State University, M.A. in Political Science from Free University of Berlin, and B.A. in Political Science and Diplomacy (major) and Law (minor) from Yonsei University in Seoul. She is a research fellow of the Earth System Governance Project and a former policy researcher at Korea Environment Institute.
Research projects
- Financing Industrial Decarbonization: managing risk and uncertainties to promote green investments in the energy intensive industries