Bruce Cumings

Bruce Cumings explores 20th-century international history, modern Korean history, U.S.-East Asian relations, East Asian political economy, and American foreign relations. He is the author of The Origins of the Korean War (Princeton University Press, two volumes, 1981, 1990); War and Television (Verso Books, 1993); Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (W. W. Norton, 1997); Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations (Duke University Press, 1999); North Korea: Another Country (The New Press, 2004); co-author, Inventing the Axis of Evil (The New Press, 2005), and Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power (Yale University Press, 2009). He is also working on a synoptic single-volume edition of his Origins of the Korean War, and a book entitled Industrial Behemoth: The Northeast Asian Political Economy, which seeks to understand the industrialization of Japan, both Koreas, Taiwan and China, and the ways that scholars and political leaders have thought about that development.