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Soyoung Lee

@soyounglee.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @Yale || Studying International Relations with a focus on territorial conflicts, rivalries, and nationalism www.soyoungleeresearch.com

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Mike Goldfien @mikegoldfien.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Excited that my article with @profmickeyj.bsky.social and #Roseanne_McManus, “The Domestic Sources of International Trust,” is now published as FirstView in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! Here is a brief summary.
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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
And this article by @soyounglee.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social "The presence of capitalintensive resources-such as oil or minerals-raises concerns about how the benefits of acquiring the territory would be distributed within the nation." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Resources and Territorial Claims: Domestic Opposition to Resource-Rich Territory | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Resources and Territorial Claims: Domestic Opposition to Resource-Rich Territory - Volume 78 Issue 3
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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Apropos current events, I want to tout this paper by @soyounglee.bsky.social showing that discussion of economic benefits can reduce public support for military action. People are skeptical when they think specific groups (e.g., oil companies) will benefit. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Domestic Distributional Roots of National Interest
SOYOUNG LEE Yale University, United States, and Duke University, United States

What international issues become national interests worth fighting for, and why? Contrary to conventional wisdom, I argue that issues without clear economic value, such as barren lands, are more likely to be perceived as national interests because they do not benefit any single domestic group. Since who benefits is unclear, politicians have an easier time framing such issues as benefiting the whole nation. I test this argument using survey experiments on the American public. The results show that first, issues providing diffuse benefits to citizens are more likely to be considered national interests than issues providing concentrated benefits to certain domestic groups. Second, issues with clearer economic value are harder to frame as having diffuse benefits because they are more easily associated with specific beneficiaries. This study proposes a new theory of national interest and offers a potential explanation for why people frequently support conflict over issues without obvious benefits.
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Minju Kim @minjulisettekim.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
How does transparency affect the behavior of international bureaucrats tasked with facilitating negotiations? In new work with Sojun Park in the Review of International Organizations (doi.org/10.1007/s115..., it’s open access!), we provide an answer in the context of the WTO.
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Domestic Distributional Roots of National Interest Domestic Distributional Roots of National Interest By Soyoung Lee, Yale University and Duke University. What international issues become national interests worth fighting for, and why? Contrary to conventional wisdom, I argue that issues without…
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Domestic Distributional Roots of National Interest
Domestic Distributional Roots of National Interest By Soyoung Lee, Yale University and Duke University. What international issues become national interests worth fighting for, and why? Contrary to conventional wisdom, I argue that issues without clear economic value, such as barren lands, are more likely to be perceived as national interests because they do not benefit any single domestic group.
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Daniel Mattingly @mattingly.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Interested in a social science Ph.D.? Apply to be a full time Predoctoral Fellow at Yale doing research on China's domestic and foreign politics! Starts on July 1. Link: tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...
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CSAP Predoc: Domestic and Foreign Politics of China
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International Organization @iojournal.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
2. Soyoung Lee, Resources and Territorial Claims: Domestic Opposition to Resource-Rich Territory Congrats!
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Resources and Territorial Claims: Domestic Opposition to Resource-Rich Territory | International Organization | Cambridge Core
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Soyoung Lee @soyounglee.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Thank you @dandrezner.bsky.social for the 2024 Albies shoutout! It's a great honor to be included alongside all the other amazing articles. And link to the paper for anyone interested: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Soyoung Lee @soyounglee.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Now out with an official issue number!
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PUREKIMMINESS @purekimminess.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Congratulations to @soyounglee.bsky.social for BEST dissertation award at Peace Science!
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Soyoung Lee @soyounglee.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
🥳 My paper is out @iojournal.bsky.social! Two main empirical takeaways: 1. States often don't fight over lands with resources, even when they can claim it for historical reasons. 2. Historical boundaries matter in how states shape their territorial claims. For more, abstract and paper below!
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
Happy 8th anniversary to the best April Fool's joke @dadakim.bsky.social & I ever pulled off!
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Weary professors give up, concede that Africa is a country
As of April 1, we’re done.
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Soyoung Lee @soyounglee.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
🥳Yay, this paper's now officially out! Available open access👇 cup.org/3GTQ99X #polisky, intsec, nationalisky
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Cleo O'Brien-Udry @cobrienudry.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
so grateful for the opportunity to present my work on greening foreign aid at Villanova today! thank you to Christopher Kilby and the economics department for the warm welcome and excellent comments! check out the paper here if interested: cobrienudry.github.io/files/o'brien-udry_JMP.pdf
TV monitor with photo of Cleo and text "Villanova Department of Economics Seminar Series"
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Soyoung Lee @soyounglee.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
🚨New paper alert🚨 #polisky #intsec My paper, "Domestic Distributional Roots of National Interest", has been cond. accepted at APSR! I ask: Why are some international issues perceived as national interests worth fighting for while others are not? While we may think the answer is obvious..1/4
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