Eun Mee Kim is a sociologist trained at Ewha (B.A.) and Brown University (M.A., Ph. D.). She was an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Southern California (1987-97), a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University (1994), and an Assistant Professor at Temple University (1990-91). She has numerous publications including Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990 (State University of New York Press, 1997), and an edited book, The Four Asian Tigers: Economic Development and the Global Political Economy (Academic Press, 1998). Kim's research focuses on political and economic development in East Asia and South Korea particularly on the state, the chaebol, and the relations between capitalist development and democratization. She has been an Advisor to the Korea Economic Institute of America, and has held elected offices in the Association for Asian Studies and the American Sociological Association. At GSIS, she is the Associate Editor of the International Studies Review.