Robert Kelly (political analyst)

Originally from Cuyahoga County, Ohio,{{Cite web|url=http://settlersofseoul.com/2017/03/14/ep-1-robert-kelly/|title=Ep. 1 – Robert Kelly on Northeast Asian Security, International Relations, and the Koreas|last=Derr|first=Arius|work=Settlers of Seoul|date=March 2017|accessdate=27 March 2017|quote=I'm from Cleveland.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.koreaobserver.com/robert-kelly-political-science-and-diplomacy-professor-interview-27079/|title=Robert Kelly – political science and diplomacy professor (Interview)|date=March 19, 2015|work=The Korean Observer|quote=Cleveland}} Kelly in 1994 graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Miami University with a BA in history and political science. Following his undergraduate studies, he attended Ohio State University and obtained an MA in international relations in 2002 and a Ph.D. in international relations in 2005 and wrote a dissertation titled, The Impact of Non-Governmental Organizations on the Bretton Woods Institutions.{{cite web|url=https://asiansecurityblog.wordpress.com/c-v/|title=C.V. – Robert E. Kelly|first=Robert|last= Kelly|publisher=Asian Security Blog|access-date = 25 January 2022}} He studied in Germany and had an internship in the German Bundestag.{{cite episode |title=Menschen, Bilder, Emotionen 2017|series=Menschen, Bilder, Emotionen|network=RTL|date=3 December 2017|language=de}} ([https://www.rtl.de/videos/robert-kelly-sein-skype-interview-ging-um-die-welt-635880.html Clip]) He speaks German fluently.

File:Interview with Dr.Kelly - Q2.ogv interview with Kelly about Kim Jong-un and rising tensions with North Korea.{{Cite news | title = North Korea's rising tensions: Wikinews interviews Scott Snyder and Dr Robert Kelly | last = Snyder | first = Scott| url = https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/North_Korea%27s_rising_tensions:_Wikinews_interviews_Scott_Snyder_and_Dr_Robert_Kelly | newspaper = Wikinews | date = 4 April 2013 | accessdate = 16 March 2017}}]]

Kelly is an associate professor of international relations in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Pusan National University in Busan, South Korea.{{Cite web| title = Robert E. Kelly | url =https://thediplomat.com/authors/robert-e-kelly/|work=The Diplomat|accessdate = 16 March 2017}} As a political analyst on inter-Korean affairs, he contributes to print and televised media, and has been referred to as a "damn good Korea analyst" by one of his peers.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/ConnellyAL/status/840176195685699585|title=Since this video is doing the rounds, it is worth noting @Robert_E_Kelly is a damn good Korea analyst|date=March 10, 2017|first=Aaron|last= Connelly}} He has made media appearances on the BBC World News, China Central Television and Al Jazeera{{Cite web | title = Robert Kelly, Al Jazeera, July 8 2016, THAAD |website = YouTube| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWt3916B898}} and has written for several publications including The Diplomat{{hsp}} and Foreign Affairs.{{Cite news | last = Kelly | first = Robert E. | title = Park's Recreation: How South Korea's Conservative Candidate Saved Her Party| url = https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/south-korea/2012-12-18/parks-recreation?page=show | work = Foreign Affairs | date = 18 December 2012 | accessdate = 16 March 2017}} He has also provided expert opinion for The Washington Post and Reuters.{{Cite news| last = Fifield | first = Anna | title = As the South Korean assembly prepares to impeach the president, paralysis looms| newspaper=The Washington Post | date = 25 November 2016 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/as-the-south-korean-assembly-prepares-to-impeach-the-president-paralysis-looms/2016/11/25/9acd58dc-4fa3-4a85-ad5b-1354224701b3_story.html | accessdate = 16 March 2017}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-southkorea-politics-instantview-idUKKBN16H08Y|title=Instant View: South Korea's Court Upholds President Park's Impeachment|website=Reuters|date=10 March 2017|accessdate=22 March 2023}} Kelly is furthermore a prolific contributor to The Interpreter, published by the Australian think tank Lowy Institute.{{Cite web | title = Robert E Kelly | url = https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/contributors/articles/robert-e-kelly | publisher = Lowy Institute|access-date = 4 May 2020}}

On March 10, 2017, he and his family rose to fame when his live interview by James Menendez on the impeachment of Park Geun-hye, the President of South Korea, for the BBC World News from his home office was sequentially gatecrashed by his four-year-old daughter and nine-month-old son entering the room, then his wife, Jung-a Kim,{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/14/robert-kelly-children-interrupt-live-bbc-interview-south-korea |title=Robert Kelly: my minor mistake turned family into YouTube stars |last=Johnston |first=Chris |date=14 March 2017 |work=The Guardian |access-date=14 March 2017}} sliding in to drag them out while knocking books off an air-mattress, before closing the door on her knees. The interview continued as normal, with the BBC News hailing the video as their favorite live TV moment of the week.{{cite news|url=https://twitter.com/BBCNewsbeat/status/840175417545895936|title=BBC Tweet: Our favourite live TV moment of the week by far|date=March 10, 2017|access-date= May 4, 2019 |work=BBC Newsbeat}} It became a Twitter Moment and quickly went viral with all four family members becoming individual memes.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/840191866855395332|title=David Itzkoff Tweet: Coming into the office on a Friday like|date=March 10, 2017|first=David|last= Itzkoff|publisher= Twitter}}{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/sportspickle/status/840200485248327681|title=SportsPickle Tweet: Who did it better?|date=March 10, 2017|publisher=SportsPickle}}{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/uglygame/status/840203497635250178|title=The Ugly Game Tweet: SportsPickle Reply|date=March 10, 2017|publisher=The Ugly Game}} In just one day, the video had over 6 million views on YouTube and became the No. 1 trending video on YouTube in the UK,{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY|title=Children interrupt BBC News interview – BBC News|date=March 10, 2017|access-date = January 25, 2022|publisher=YouTube}} later being named {{abbr|No.|Number}} 10 on YouTube's list of the top 10 trending videos of 2017.{{cite web|last=Allocca|first=Kevin|url=https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/12/its-time-for-youtuberewind-celebrating.html|title=It's time for #YouTubeRewind: Celebrating what you watched, shared, and created in 2017|work=Official YouTube Blog|date=6 December 2017|accessdate=October 8, 2018}}

Many viewers and journalists incorrectly assumed the woman in the video was Kelly's nanny instead of his wife.{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bbc-professor-video-asian-wife-nanny-stereotypes-20170310-story.html|title=That Asian mom is not the nanny. Why do so many people assume she is?|date=March 10, 2017|first=Jessica|last=Roy|work=Los Angeles Times | accessdate = March 16, 2017}}

Kelly and his family returned to television on March 14 for an interview about the incident.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39267005 |title=Prof Robert Kelly and the interrupted interview – take two |date=14 March 2017 |work=BBC News |access-date= March 14, 2017}} In December 2017 he said that "for two weeks we were the most famous family on earth" but he thought it could be "the end of my career as a talking head."{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/dec/20/robert-kelly-south-korea-bbc-kids-gatecrash-viral-storm|title=The expert whose children gatecrashed his TV interview: 'I thought I'd blown it in front of the whole world'|last=Usborne|first=Simon|date=20 December 2017|work=The Guardian|accessdate=20 December 2017}}

Kelly's fame arising from the viral video led to his appearance on a South Korean reality television show that focuses on the struggles of fathers raising young children.{{cite web | last=Yong | first=Nicole | title=15 The Return Of Superman Kids & Siblings We Loved To Watch Grow Up And Where They Are Now | website=ZULA.sg | date=September 15, 2021 | url=https://zula.sg/the-return-of-superman-kids/ | access-date=May 23, 2022}}

• {{Cite journal

| title = Korea-European Union relations: beyond the FTA?

| journal = International Relations of the Asia-Pacific

| date = 2011-12-27

| volume = 12

| issue = 1

| pages = 101–132

| doi = 10.1093/IRAP/LCR020

| last1 = Kelly

| first1 = Robert E.

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• {{Cite journal

| last1 = Kelly

| first1 = R. E.

| title = The German-Korean Unification Parallel

| journal = The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis

| date = 2011-12-01

| volume = 23

| issue = 4

| pages = 457–472

| url = http://www.kida.re.kr/cmm/viewBoardImageFile.do?idx=19981

| author-mask=3

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| title = A 'Confucian Long Peace' in pre-Western East Asia?

| journal = European Journal of International Relations

| date = 2011-07-18

| volume = 18

| issue = 3

| pages = 407–430

| doi = 10.1177/1354066111409771

| last1 = Kelly

| first1 = Robert E.

| s2cid = 146715727

| author-mask=3

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• {{Cite journal

| title = Assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernmental organizations: The case of the Bretton Woods Institutions

| journal = International Political Science Review

| date = 2011-06-01

| volume = 32

| issue = 3

| pages = 323–344

| doi = 10.1177/0192512110380572

| last1 = Kelly

| first1 = Robert E.

| s2cid = 145344682

| author-mask=3

}}

• {{Cite journal

| title = American Dual Containment in Asia

| journal = Geopolitics

| date = 2010-11-19

| volume = 15

| issue = 4

| pages = 705–725

| doi = 10.1080/14650041003718325

| last1 = Kelly

| first1 = Robert Edwin

| s2cid = 144152785

| author-mask=3

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• {{Cite journal

| title = No 'return to the state': dependency and developmentalism against neo-liberalism

| journal = Development in Practice

| date = 2008-06-01

| volume = 18

| issue = 3

| pages = 319–332

| doi = 10.1080/09614520802030342

| author-mask=3

| last1 = Kelly

| first1 = Robert E.

| s2cid = 154309459

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• {{Cite journal

| title = Security Theory in the "New Regionalism"

| journal = International Studies Review

| date = 2007-06-01

| volume = 9

| issue = 2

| pages = 197–229

| doi = 10.1111/J.1468-2486.2007.00671.X

| author-mask=3

| last1 = Kelly

| first1 = Robert E.

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• {{Cite journal

| title = From International Relations to Global Governance Theory: Conceptualizing NGOs after the Rio Breakthrough of 1992

| journal = Journal of Civil Society

| date = 2007-06-01

| volume = 3

| issue = 1

| pages = 81–99

| doi = 10.1080/17448680701390786

| author-mask=3

| last1 = Kelly

| first1 = Robert E.

| s2cid = 144199282

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• {{Cite journal

| title = Thucydides and hegemony: Athens and the United States

| journal = Review of International Studies

| date = 2001-10-01

| volume = 27

| issue = 4

| doi = 10.1017/S0260210501005939

| last1 = Lebow

| first1 = Richard Ned

| last2 = Kelly

| first2 = Robert

| pages = 593–609

| s2cid = 146343652

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{{Wikinews|Wikinews interviews Dr. Robert Kelly and Dr. Jim Gill regarding joint scientific venture in North Korea}}

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