South Korea's Wild Ride

The Big Shifts in Foreign Policy from 2013 to 2022
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-49639-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Rozman, Terry, and Jo analyze the geopolitical shifts in South Korea’s policies toward its neighbors and allies over the course of the Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in administrations into the early years of the Yoon Suk-yeol administration.

2013 to 2022 was a tumultuous decade in South Korean politics and especially in its foreign policy. Through two changes of its own presidency, as well as the rise and fall of the Trump administration in the United States, South Korea’s politicians and diplomats have pursued different attempts at bridge-building with North Korea, before arriving at a more cautious and defensive position. The authors track the different attempts by Park and Moon to pursue increasingly optimistic attempts at reconciliation, and how they were thwarted by excessive idealism, domestic divisions, and broader great power rivalries—notably including Russia, China, and Japan.

An essential guide to understanding the trajectory of South Korean foreign policy, for students of Korean politics as well as scholars and policy practitioners.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rozman, Gilbert

Terry, Sue Mi

Jo, Eun A

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part One: South Korea in the Hot Seat, 2013-2015

1. A Trustpolitik Approach to Denuclearization and Unification

2. Managing Four Great Powers

3. Remaking of Conservative Narratives

Part Two: South Korea’s High Stakes Diplomacy, 2016-2019

4. Great Hopes, Shattered Dreams

5. Gambling on Great Power Relations

6. Return of Progressive Narratives

Part Three: South Korea Sobers Up, 2020-2022

7. Shift to the New Missile Age: 2020-2022

8. Edging toward Bipolarity: South Korea’s Regional Reorientation, 2020-2022

9. Battling Partisan Narratives

Über Autor(innen)

Gilbert Rozman is Emeritus Musgrave Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, USA and Editor-in-Chief of the Asan Forum, South Korea.

Sue Mi Terry is Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington DC, USA.

Eun A Jo is a doctoral candidate at Cornell University and a fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University, USA.