Wonjung Kim is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Florida, specialising in International Relations and Political Methodology. 

His research sits at the intersection of IR theory, international security, and alliance politics, with particular focus on deterrence, strategic uncertainty, and hierarchical security relationships. He is committed to understanding why states go to war, what conditions make peace possible, and how the structure of the international system shapes state behaviour – questions he approaches through the development of parsimonious, micro-foundational realist theory. Methodologically, his work combines formal modelling, quantitative analysis, and qualitative process tracing to identify causal mechanisms and develop theory-driven explanations of strategic behaviour. 

Prior to joining the University of Florida, Kim received both his MSc and BSc in Political Science from Universiteit Leiden.