EDWARD HOWELL
MA MPhil DPhil (Oxon.)
Edward is a Lecturer in Politics at Christ Church, University of Oxford. His research interests concern the international relations of East Asia, the politics and international relations of the Korean Peninsula, and North Korea’s nuclear programme and foreign policy. His book, North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order: When Bad Behaviour Pays, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.
At the University of Oxford, Edward teaches Politics and International Relations as part of undergraduate degrees in History & Politics, and Philosophy, Politics, & Economics, as well as postgraduates reading for the M.Phil. degree in International Relations.
Edward has been an Emerging Leaders Fellow of the Ministry of Unification of South Korea; a Korea Foundation-Next Generation Policy Fellow at Chatham House, London; and a Contributing Writer at The Economist Intelligence Unit. He offers extensive analysis on East Asia and North and South Korea for national and international media, including BBC World News, Sky News, The Economist, The Spectator, UnHerd, ITV News, NBC, and The Telegraph.
Graduating with a prizewinning double First Class degree in Geography, from Brasenose College, Oxford—where he was an academic and organ scholar—Edward achieved a Distinction in his M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Oxford, for which he was awarded the Deirdre and Paul Malone Prize in Politics and International Relations. Edward’s D.Phil. research in International Relations was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and focused on North Korea’s nuclear behaviour. In addition to his media and academic work, Edward is an organist and choral conductor.
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