Explainer Series

What are the dynamics of
the new Cold War?

April 2024

Rüdiger Frank is Professor at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna, where he established an English language MA program on East Asian Economy and Society (EcoS, https://ecos.univie.ac.at). He is the founder and director of the European Centre for North Korean Studies (ECNK, www.ecnk.eu), a platform for scholars and researchers to pursue multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and comparative research on North Korea.

He holds an MA in Korean Studies and International Relations, and a PhD in Economics. He has written on various topics related to North Korea, including its economic history during the 1950s, the connections between ideology and economic reform after the 1990s famine, the transformation of state-socialism, and the political economy of unification.