The Two Koreas and the Great PowersThis book explores Korea's place in terms of multiple levels and domains of interaction pertaining to foreign-policy behaviors and relations with the four regional/global powers (China, Russia, Japan, and the United States). The synergy of global transformations has now brought to an end Korea's proverbial identity and role as the helpless shrimp among whales, and both North Korea and South Korea have taken on new roles in the process of redefining and projecting their national identities. Synthetic national identity theory offers a useful perspective on change and continuity in Korea's turbulent relationships with the great powers over the years. Following a review of Korean diplomatic history and competing theoretical approaches, along with a synthetic national-identity theory as an alternative approach, one chapter each is devoted to how Korea relates to the four powers in turn, and the book concludes with a consideration of inter-Korean relations and potential reunification. |
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Page 109
... peninsula and is generally supportive of the status quo ; it does not perceive a military threat coming from the peninsula.26 Indeed , it would seem accurate to describe Soviet policy toward the Korean peninsula during the Cold War as ...
... peninsula and is generally supportive of the status quo ; it does not perceive a military threat coming from the peninsula.26 Indeed , it would seem accurate to describe Soviet policy toward the Korean peninsula during the Cold War as ...
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... Korean peninsula until the Soviet Union's mid - twentieth - century entrance on the northern half of the peninsula , an event that helped create the third Korea : divided Korea . Today , post - Soviet Russia faces a still - divided Korea ...
... Korean peninsula until the Soviet Union's mid - twentieth - century entrance on the northern half of the peninsula , an event that helped create the third Korea : divided Korea . Today , post - Soviet Russia faces a still - divided Korea ...
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... Korean unification throughout the 1950s and 1960s . But since the 1970s , faute de mieux , Tokyo began to favor status quo on the Korean peninsula , a position at the time very much congruent with American policy . A combination of ...
... Korean unification throughout the 1950s and 1960s . But since the 1970s , faute de mieux , Tokyo began to favor status quo on the Korean peninsula , a position at the time very much congruent with American policy . A combination of ...
Contents
China and the Two Koreas | 42 |
The Making of a Triangular Relationship | 52 |
New Challenges of the BeijingSeoulPyongyang | 63 |
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