Yong Kyun Kim is a Ph.D. candidate studying the political economy of international issues including international finance and investment. In his dissertation, The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt: Domestic Politics, Strategic Choices, and Suboptimal Outcomes, he explores the political dimension of developing countries' foreign debt problems. From the political economy perspective, he highlights the interplay between domestic politics and strategic actions at the international level and, using game-theoretic models, seeks to explain why such suboptimal outcomes as defaults on debt, sudden stops of debt rollover, and excessive debt accumulation arise. While the manuscript from the first chapter has been invited to Revise and Resubmit at The Journal of Politics, the second and third chapters were presented at the MPSA 2008 meeting and at the PolMeth 2008 meeting, respectively. Yong Kyun is also interested in Political Methodology. He has participated in the EITM at UCLA, a Bayesian workshop at Odum Institute, and a Social Network Analysis workshop. Yong Kyun has taught, as an instructor with full responsibility, Contemporary Latin American Politics for two semesters. His teaching interests cover Introduction to IR, IPE, International Finance, International Organizations for IR, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, East Asian Politics for Comparative Politics as well as Introductory and Intermediate Quantitative Methods, Game Theory and Formal Modeling, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, and Bayesian Statistics for Political Methodology. His CV and additional information on his research and teaching are available on his website:http://www.unc.edu/~ykkim.