Korea's foreign policy dilemmas : defining state security and the goal of national unification /

Korea's foreign policy dilemmas : defining state security and the goal of national unification / / Song-hak Kang.

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Koreans historically consider their country as a victim of foreign powers – sometimes seeing themselves as a shrimp among whales. In fact, Korea's national status has to a great extent been determined by the historical rivalries between the great powers. This collection of essays, produced over...

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Kang, Sŏng-hak.
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Brill eBook titles
Physical Description:1 online resource (445 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material
  • Introduction to South Korea’s Foreign Policy / Boris Kondoch
  • The Korean Style of Foreign Policy: International Bandwagoning for Survival?
  • Korean Nation’s Historical Lessons: Platonic Korea, Machiavellian Japan, and America’s Asian Policy in the Imperial Age.
  • Korea-Russia Relations in the Historical Perspective.
  • America’s Foreign Policy toward East Asia: From God father to an Outsider?
  • South Korea’s Security Policy: Historical Review and Appraisal.
  • Shifting Historical Meaning of American Troops in South Korea and Its Implications upon the Korean Peninsula.
  • Crisis Management under Armistice Structure on the Korean Peninsula during the Cold War.
  • The Steps to Confidence-Building for Disarmament between North and South Korea.
  • Changing Strategic Milieu for East Asia and the Long Road to Korean Unification.
  • The “Sunshine Policy” and South Korean Security: Is North Korea an Aesopian Traveler’s Overcoat or King Solomon’s Shield?
  • North Korean Security Policy and Military Strategy: Strategic Metamorphosis from Sisyphus to Chameleon?
  • North Korea’s Kim Jong Il Regime after September 11: Like an Island of Autocracy in the Sea of Democracy?
  • The South Korea-the US Alliance Has Come to a Fork and Whither Way for South Koreans: “Midlife Crisis” or “Twilight Divorce”?
  • The Special Relationship between South Korea and the United Nations: Metamorphosis from a Beneficiary into a Benefactor and Vice Versa.
  • New Geopolitical Configuration of Power in the Asia-Pacific World for the Twenty-First Century: Will It Resemble Time’s Cycle or Time’s Arrow toward a Regional Brave New World?
  • Epilogue
  • Timeline
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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