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My own favorite fictional sleuths are Icelandic, Japanese, Indian and Singaporean. All of them are storytelling-worriers. So is Sungju-Park-Kang. His investigation of the mysterious downing of flight KAL 858 has taken him into encounters with state intelligence agents, confused students, and unsettled survivors. Accompanying Park-Kang along theorizing’s ill-lighted corridors will insure that IR will never look the same. Tears of Theory will stick with you. -- Cynthia Enloe, Author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy This will be seen as one of the boldest efforts to date to craft a new style of writing about International Relations. An auto-ethnography combined with fiction and theory, the author challenges us to look at the international, not through a safe and reified detachment, but in a thoroughly unsafe way – itself a metaphor for the very unsafe world we purport to study. -- Stephen Chan, OBE, SOAS University of London

My own favorite fictional sleuths are Icelandic, Japanese, Indian and Singaporean. All of them are storytelling-worriers. So is Sungju-Park-Kang. His investigation of the mysterious downing of flight KAL 858 has taken him into encounters with state intelligence agents, confused students, and unsettled survivors. Accompanying Park-Kang along theorizing's ill-lighted corridors will insure that IR will never look the same. Tears of Theory will stick with you. -- Cynthia Enloe, Author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy This will be seen as one of the boldest efforts to date to craft a new style of writing about International Relations. An auto-ethnography combined with fiction and theory, the author challenges us to look at the international, not through a safe and reified detachment, but in a thoroughly unsafe way - itself a metaphor for the very unsafe world we purport to study. -- Stephen Chan, OBE, SOAS University of London

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Sungju Park-Kang is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, Finland. Park-Kang was Assistant Professor of International Relations and Korean Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands and the University of Central Lancashire, UK. His work has appeared in Review of International Studies and Millennium: Journal of International Studies, among others. Park-Kang is the author of Fictional International Relations: Gender, Pain and Truth (Routledge).

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