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Christopher Khatouki

Christopher Khatouki

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Social Sciences

Email: c.khatouki@unsw.edu.au

Supervisors: Elizabeth Thurbon, Srinjoy Bose

Chris Khatouki is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Economy in the School of Social Sciences at UNSW Sydney. He holds a Graduate Fellowship with the Korea Foundation (2022-2024) and was recently a Visiting Scholar at the Ewha Graduate School of International Studies (2023).

Chris’s academic research explores the contentious dynamics of economic governance in the Indo-Pacific region. Topics include: geoeconomic competition, statecraft and economic policy, historical developmentalism, state-labour and state-society relations.

His Ph.D. project, currently entitled ‘The Political Economy of Social Contention in South Korea’, is under the supervision of Professor Elizabeth Thurbon and Dr Srinjoy Bose.

In 2023, Chris was recognised as a Euan Crone Asia Awareness Scholar by the Australian Institute of International Affairs. In 2022, he was also recognised as an Emerging Leader and Policy Specialist by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy.

His prior roles include being a Research and Program Associate at Asia Society Australia (2021 – 2023), Executive Councillor at the Australian Institute of International Affairs, NSW (2018 – 2022), and Guest Instructor at the Gyeongsangnam-do Office of Education, South Korea (2020-2022).

He holds a First-Class Honours Degree in International Relations from the University of Wollongong, where he was awarded the University Medal. His writings on international affairs regularly feature on a number of global publications including the South China Morning Post, The Diplomat, Australian Outlook, and the Asia Society Policy Institute.
Chris’s academic research explores the contentious dynamics of economic governance in the Indo-Pacific region. Topics include: geoeconomic competition, statecraft and economic policy, historical developmentalism, state-labour and state-society relations.
 

His Ph.D. project, currently entitled ‘The Political Economy of Social Contention in South Korea’, is under the supervision of Professor Elizabeth Thurbon and Dr Srinjoy Bose.

Book Chapters:

  • Khatouki C, 2022, “A ‘New Deal’ to Securing Prosperity? Understanding Economic Policy under President Moon Jae-in”, in J Lee & N Caldwell (eds), The Future of the Korean Peninsula and Beyond, National Committee on American Foreign Policy, New York, pp. 8 – 25.
  • Khatouki C, 2021, The Sydney Declaration Two Years On: Moving Australia-ASEAN Relations in the Right Direction’, Australia-ASEAN Strategic Review 2020, March 2021, pp. 12 – 17.

Journal Articles:

  • Khatouki C, 2024, 'Economic Governance and State-Labour Contention in East Asia: A Critical Review', Sociology Compass [forthcoming].

Media

  • Khatouki C, 2022, The Presidential Politics of Labour Relations in the US and South Korea, KoreaPro [forthcoming].
  • Khatouki C, 2022, The Gwanghwamun President and The Future of South Korea, Asia Society Policy Institute.
  • Khatouki C, 2022, Under Labor leadership, Australia has a chance to end its Foreign Policy Incoherence, South China Morning Post.
  • Khatouki C, 2022, South Korea’s Embrace of Australia Goes Beyond China’, Lowy Institute
  • Khatouki C, 2020, ‘Cults and Politics: How South Korea Became a Coronavirus Epicenter’, The Diplomat
  • Khatouki C, 2019, ‘Scandals Reveal Korea’s Fractured Politics’, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Nov 2019.