Doctoral Dissertation Research: Understanding the Dynamics of State Power and Militant Nationalism

社会主义国家政权研究是人文社会科学探索的交叉学科之一。我相信，我的项目将对专门研究国家权力的政治社会学家和社会科学家产生重大的普遍兴趣。在社会学方面，通过对朝鲜难民的深入访谈和民族志观察，对朝鲜好战民族主义进行研究，可以：（1）通过质的研究方法，使我们深入到一直被视为不可接近的朝鲜社会;（二）从理论上理解社会主义国家权力的行使和公民对国家权力的反应，国家与公民社会;（3）帮助我们理解不同于传统极权主义方法的社会主义国家权力的另一种视角。这项研究的学术价值在于，通过研究斯大林主义国家社会主义的自下而上的政治，对国家权力和社会文化转型理论做出了贡献。一个独特的贡献是探索公民的日常政治，这是由国家的战斗民族主义代表。这项研究对于将个人的生活置于分析的中心，并强调他们的日常实践在民族主义政治中的塑造和重塑方式非常重要。这一研究的更大的理论贡献是从国家与社会的关系角度提出了对国家权力的新理解。这将使我们能够考虑斯大林主义国家社会主义的新的国家权力机制。这项研究也有一些更广泛的影响。这项研究的结果不仅将在学术界传播，而且还将在美国国内外的个人和社会组织中传播。这项研究将对从事社会主义过渡国家及其社会变革的个人和社会组织产生重大兴趣。这些发现有助于我们更好地理解转型社会中国家与公民社会的关系，并为社会的和平变革提供启示。因此，本研究可能有助于提供和平国际政治的见解。

The study of socialist state power is one of the interdisciplinary studies which humanities and social sciences have explored. I believe that my project will be of significant general interest to political sociologists and social scientists who specialize in state power. Sociologically, my research on North Korean militant nationalism through in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation with North Korean refugees can: (1) enable us to delve into North Korean society, which has been regarded as unapproachable, through the qualitative research method; (2) help us understand how the socialist state exerted its power and how the citizens reacted to state power theoretically in terms of the relationship between the state and civil society; (3) help us understand an alternative perspective of socialist state power that is differentiated from the traditional approach of totalitarianism. The intellectual merits of this study are its contribution to theories of state power and socio-cultural transformation through a study of the bottom-up politics of Stalinist state socialism. A unique contribution is to explore citizens' everyday politics which is represented by the state's militant nationalism. This study is important for placing individuals' lives at the center of the analysis, and highlighting the way in which their everyday practices are shaped and reshaped within nationalist politics. The larger theoretical contribution of this research is to suggest a new understanding of state power in terms of the relationship between the state and society. This will allow us to consider a new mechanism of state power in Stalinist state socialism. This study also has several broader impacts. The findings of this study will be disseminated not only in the academic community but also among individuals and social organizations in and beyond the U.S. This study will be of significant interest to individuals and social organizations which engage in transitional socialist states and their social changes. These findings may suggest a better understanding of the relationship between the state and civil society in transitional socialist societies and provide insights for their peaceful social changes. Therefore, this study may contribute to providing insights for peaceful international politics.