- “An Arms Race in Northeast Asia?” Asian Perspective, Winter 2009
- “China’s Military Spending: Soft Rise or Hard Threat?” Asian Perspective, Winter 2009
- Landlords, Peasants, and Intellectuals in Modern Korea (Review), Korean Quarterly, Winter 2009
- “Bye Bye Dubai,” Providence Journal, December 31, 2009
- “The Art of Extraction,” Foreign Policy In Focus, December 23, 2009
- “A New START?” World Beat, December 22, 2009
- “Review: Guardians of the Revolution,” Yes magazine, December 15, 2009
- “Exceptional or Exceptionalism?” World Beat, December 15, 2009
- “Crapshoot in Copenhagen,” World Beat, December 8, 2009
- “Review: Sergio Fabbrini,” International Politik, Winter 2009
- “Why Dubai?” World Beat, December 1, 2009
- Review of Korean Cuisine: An Illustrated History, Gastronomica, Fall 2009
- “Hitting the Breaks on Afghanistan,” World Beat, November 24, 2009
- “Obama Takes a Bow?” Foreign Policy In Focus, November 20, 2009
- “Europe’s Wild East,” World Beat, November 17, 2009
- “Postcard from…Tirana,” Foreign Policy In Focus, November 16, 2009
- “Obama: Visit Hiroshima,” Foreign Policy In Focus, November 11, 2009
- “New Neighbors, New Economy,” World Beat, November 10, 2009
- “North Korea: Diplomats vs. Journalists,” Asia Chronicle, November 4, 2009
- “Reading Ramadan in Istanbul,” World Beat, November 3, 2009
- “Lords of Misrule,” World Beat, October 27, 2009
- “Swing Region,” World Beat, October 20, 2009
- “Obama Must Pick Gurneys over Guns,” McClatchy-Tribune, October 15, 2009
- “Toward a More Perfect Nobel,” World Beat, October 13, 2009
- “The Hand of Obama,” World Beat, October 6, 2009
- “Afghanistan: NATO’s Graveyard?” TomDispatch, September 30, 2009
- “Carbon Disarmament,” World Beat, September 29, 2009
- “Good War vs. Great Society,” World Beat, September 22, 2009
- “Lies and Misdemeanors,” World Beat, September 15, 2009
- “Postcard from…Dublin,” Foreign Policy In Focus, September 8, 2009
- “Europe 3.0,” World Beat, September 8, 2009
- “The Other Democratic Party,” World Beat, September 1, 2009
- “Revolution in Japan,” Asia Chronicle, August 28, 2009
- “Chinese Assassination Squads,” World Beat, August 28, 2009
- “After the Sunshine Generation,” Asia Chronicle, August 21, 2009
- “Review: The Future of Global Relations,” Foreign Policy In Focus, August 19, 2009
- “Global Spin Doctors,” World Beat, August 18, 2009
- “Bill’s Excellent Adventure,” World Beat, August 11, 2009
- “Their Martyrs and Our Heroes,” TomDispatch, August 6, 2009
- “The Geopolitics of Facebook,” World Beat, August 4, 2009
- “Review: Securing Japan,” The Journal of Asian Studies, August 2009
- “Slaying the Dragon,” World Beat, July 28, 2009
- “Asia’s Axis of Evil?” Asia Chronicle, July 24, 2009
- “Gassed to Death,” World Beat, July 21, 2009
- “North Korean Papillon,” Asia Chronicle, July 16, 2009
- “The Cost of Empire,” World Beat, July 14, 2009
- “AfPak Blowback,” World Beat, July 7, 2009
- “Japan-ROK Relations on the Rocks,” Asia Chronicle, July 3, 2009
- “Playing the Hawk with North Korea,” Inter Press Service, July 1, 2009
- “Democratic Shocks,” World Beat, June 30, 2009
- “Pearl Harbor, Part 2?” World Beat, June 23, 2009
- “The Obama-Lee Summit: Dangerous Consensus?” Asia Chronicle, June 19, 2009
- “The Dancing Cure,” World Beat, June 16, 2009
- “Outsourcing North Korea Policy,” Asia Chronicle, June 11, 2009
- “America’s Sorry Policy,” World Beat, June 9, 2009
- “Twenty Years Later,” World Beat, June 2, 2009
- The Politics of Gender (Review), Korean Quarterly, Summer 2009
- “Korean Tragedies,” Asia Chronicle, May 29, 2009
- “Nightmare on Cheney Street,” World Beat, May 26, 2009
- “The G-2 Paradox,” Asia Chronicle, May 22, 2009
- “Quaker Utopias,” World Beat, May 19, 2009
- “North Korea and Malign Neglect,” Asia Chronicle, May 14, 2009
- “Abolition Follies,” World Beat, May 12, 2009
- “Capitalist Pigs,” World Beat, May 5, 2009
- “100 Day Dash,” World Beat, April 28, 2009
- “Obama’s First 100 Days: Foreign Policy,” Foreign Policy In Focus, April 27, 2009
- “Piracy and Empire,” Foreign Policy In Focus, April 24, 2009
- “Great Neighbor Policy,” World Beat, April 21, 2009
- “Monsters vs. Aliens,” TomDispatch, April 21, 2009
- “North Korea’s Sunshine Policy,” Korea Herald, April 20, 2009
- “Balkan Myths,” World Beat, April 14, 2009
- “Mouth-to-Mouth Summitry,” World Beat, April 7, 2009
- “Why Yugoslavia Still Matters,” Foreign Policy In Focus, April 6, 2009
- “Strategic Dialogue with Edward Herman,” Foreign Policy In Focus, April 6, 2009
- “A Need for Restraint over North Korea’s Satellite,” Boston Globe, April 5, 2009
- “What’s Up With North Korea?” Foreign Policy In Focus, April 5, 2009
- “Never Again (Maybe),” World Beat, March 31, 2009
- “Japan: On Trial 60 Years Later,” Inter Press Service, March 26, 2009
- “Naval Gazing,” World Beat, March 24, 2009
- “Foreign Policy In Fashion,” World Beat, March 17, 2009
- “Thinking Big In Crisis Time,” Inter Press Service, March 12, 2009
- “Don’t Move On Yet,” World Beat, March 10, 2009
- “Turning European,” World Beat, March 3, 2009
- “Listen: Afghanistan,” World Beat, February 24, 2009
- “Ploughshares into Swords,” Korea Economic Institute Report, February 18, 2009
- “North Korea Sends Message: Don’t Ignore Us,” Progressive Media Project, February 18, 2009
- “A Multipolar Moment?” World Beat, February 17, 2009
- “What’s the Matter with China?” World Beat, February 10, 2009
- “The Risk of Military Keynesianism,” Foreign Policy In Focus, February 9, 2009
- “Our Pirates and Theirs,” World Beat, February 3, 2009
- “GWOT’s End?” World Beat, January 27, 2009
- “Postcard from…Banja Luka,” Foreign Policy In Focus, January 23, 2009
- “Inaugural Mulligan,” World Beat, January 20, 2009
- “Bush’s Path from ‘Humility’ to ‘Bring It On,'” Inter Press Service, January 16, 2009
- “From Arms to Art,” Foreign Policy In Focus, January 16, 2009
- “Lame Legacy,” World Beat, January 13, 2009
- “Japan: The Price of Normalcy,” Japan Focus, January 10, 2009
- “Israel: Mini-Me?” World Beat, January 6, 2009
- East Asia’s Sorry Politics (Review), Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2009