Motin examines great powers' reactions to the rise of new powers in bipolar international systems by exploring an understudied problem: the rarity of armed emergence after 1945.
Dylan Motin is a visiting scholar at the Seoul National University Asia Center, South Korea. He is also a non-resident Kelly Fellow at the Pacific Forum and a non-resident research fellow at the ROK Forum for Nuclear Strategy. His research interests include balance-of-power theory, great power competition, and Korean affairs.