Nationalist Entrepreneurs and Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia: Sustaining Public Interest

The nationalism surrounding territorial sovereignty requires a domestic nationalist ecosystem, aka the Nationalist Industrial Complex, to sustain public interest. It focusses on nationalist entrepreneurs representing local merchants who commodify nationalism by building businesses.

Jiun Bang is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Her thematic research interests include International Relations Theory (IRT), Security Studies, and gender/gendering, with a regional focus on Northeast Asia that typically includes China, Japan, and South Korea. She has published on South Korean female legislators (2023) and the religious far-right in South Korea (2025).