[학술논문] Changing Security Landscape of Northeast Asia in Transition : A View from Japan
...facing complex problems from the rise of China. Given rapidly changing strategic landscape, Japan and ROKshould deepen security cooperation both in the context of the coordination of two bilateral alliances and bilateral relations between Japan and ROK, to broaden range of choices for both countries. (Not to antagonize or to contain China)To think about such challenge, this paper discusses three issues:...
[학술논문] 미국의 동아시아 진출과 동해
...the Second World War and the formation of international Cold War system after 1945 changed American interests in East Asia. Confronting with communist countries, the United States formed military alliances with Japan and South Korea. Thus East Sea got a new importance as the space for securing American strategic interests. During the Korean War, East Sea was utilized as transportation route as American...
[학술논문] The Future of the ROK-U.S. Alliance
Over the past six decades, the alliance between the Republic of Korea and the United States has become one of the most successful military alliances in history. Numerous strategic changes are anticipated in Northeast Asia over the coming years, including the risk of a military attack by North Korea and a shift in the balance of power. Among multiple factors that contribute to the success of an alliance...
[학술논문] Leadership and Multilateralism in the Recent North Korean Crisis
...rife with various security dilemmas, since the 1980s onward intra-regional resolutions for immanent problems tend to shift from conflict to cooperation. Northeast Asians rely far more on military alliances than on multilateral regimes for national defense. The current North Korea question emerges new threatening the Northeast Asian security. Concerning finding ways for the solution for the North Korean...
[학술논문] China’s Dilemma on the Korean Peninsula: Not an Alliance but a Security Dilemma
...opposite effect for North Korea. The other is structural, in that neither China nor North Korea can afford to abandon the alliance against the South Korea-U.S. and U.S.-Japan alliances. An abandonment strategy toward alliances is effective only if a state has a strategic option to defend itself on its own or to align with others, and if an ally can defect and/or align with others, including the adversaries...