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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... social constructivism ) , it seems useful to describe the theory in the terms of Alexander Wendt , who has forth put the most comprehensive constructivist theory of international politics . Indeed , Wendt is to constructivism what Waltz ...
... social constructivism ) , it seems useful to describe the theory in the terms of Alexander Wendt , who has forth put the most comprehensive constructivist theory of international politics . Indeed , Wendt is to constructivism what Waltz ...
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... social structure on ideas is the sense in which constructivism has an idealist ( ' idea - ist ' ) view of structure . " 78 Shared understandings , expectations , and knowledge define social structures , constituting actors and the ...
... social structure on ideas is the sense in which constructivism has an idealist ( ' idea - ist ' ) view of structure . " 78 Shared understandings , expectations , and knowledge define social structures , constituting actors and the ...
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... social system when the social struc- ture allows fewer possibilities for problem solving than are necessary to maintain the system . The penalty for this failure of system performance is the withdrawal of political legitimation . The ...
... social system when the social struc- ture allows fewer possibilities for problem solving than are necessary to maintain the system . The penalty for this failure of system performance is the withdrawal of political legitimation . The ...
Contents
China and the Two Koreas | 42 |
The Making of a Triangular Relationship | 52 |
New Challenges of the BeijingSeoulPyongyang | 63 |
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