Eura Choi is a DPhil candidate in International Relations under the supervision of Professor Todd Hall. Her dissertation examines the evolving institutional architecture of the Asia-Pacific, drawing on an original dataset and typology of economic and security-oriented multilateral organisations. Identifying a shift in regional institution-building practices since around 2010, her work advances a theory of middle-power institutional entrepreneurship in the context of a changing regional order. Her research project is supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
Prior to starting her DPhil, Eura received her A.B.-A.M. from Harvard University in Government (A.B.) and Regional Studies–East Asia (A.M.). While at Harvard, she co-founded the Harvard College International Program and was awarded the John Harvard Scholarship. Her combined bachelor's and master’s thesis studied the domestic political dynamics shaping South Korea-Japan agreements on contested historical issues, theorising the conditions under which political leadership converged on conciliatory agreements or produced antagonistic rhetoric and policy reversals.
In addition to her dissertation research, Eura is helping to establish King’s College London’s inaugural Centre for Nuclear Strategy and Security with Professor Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer. She has also conducted research at the Korean Institute for Development Strategy, the New York State Legislature, and the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution.
