Sungju Park-Kang: Fictional International Relations: Gender, Pain and TruthJoak Kwon-Hein

ASIEN – Nr. 148 (2018) pp. 121–23

London and New York: Routledge, 2014. 169 pp., 133,05 EUR

The volume “Fictional International Relations: Gender, Pain and Truth” has three objectives, as suggested by its author Sungju Park-Kang: the introduction of fiction writing into international relations (hereafter, IR) research as a methodology, the feminist-informed perspective as a concept in analyzing IR, and the repositioning of the Korean Airlines (KAL) flight 858 bombing case in 1987 as the evidence of the continuing Cold War situation in the Korean peninsula…