Soo Yeon received her Ph.D. from Yale University and B.A. from Yonsei University. Her research areas are IPE, international security, quantitative methodology, and East Asian security and political economy. Her current research focuses on the impact of power politics on the evolution of the GATT/WTO. While at the Center for Globalization and Governance, Soo Yeon will work on a project on trade multilateralism, analyzing measures of multilateralism, the diversion effects of preferential trading arrangements, and U.S. trade patterns since the end of the Cold War.