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The ÉÙ¸¾×ÔÅÄ Committee on Organization, Procedures, and Awards (COPA) is pleased to announce that Hyeong-ki Kwon has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Karl Deutsch Award. 

As part of this prestigious recognition, Prof. Kwon will deliver the Karl Deutsch Prize Lecture, titled Openness and Coordination: National Economies of the U.S., Japan, and Germany in a Globalized World, at the 2025 ÉÙ¸¾×ÔÅÄ World Congress of Political Science in Seoul on 14 July 2025. Focusing on the U.S., Japan, and Germany, Prof. Kwon will examine how corporate globalization reshapes national economies and argue that successful adaptation requires both openness and strategic coordination to improve innovation and production capabilities.

The purpose of the Karl Deutsch Award is to honour a prominent scholar engaged in the cross-disciplinary research of which Karl Deutsch was a master, focusing on recognizing outstanding scholarship in global politics. 

Hyeong-ki Kwon
Hyeong-ki Kwon is a professor of political science and international relations at Seoul National University. Since graduating from the University of Chicago in 2002, he has studied the changes in various governing regimes of advanced economies under globalization, including the U.S., Germany, Japan, Ireland, and Korea. His publications in comparative politics and political economy include Openness and Coordination: National Economies of the U.S., Japan, and Germany in a Globalized World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), Changes by Competition: The Evolution of the South Korean Developmental State (Oxford University Press, 2021), Evolution of Irish Social Partnership (Seoul: Humanitas, 2014), Fairness and Division of Labor in Market Societies (Berghahn Books, 2004) and many articles in major journals including Politics & Society, Theory and Society, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative European Politics, Contemporary Politics, and Economic and Industrial Democracy.