[학술논문] Whose Economic Pain for What Security Gain? The Strategic and Normative Concerns Surrounding the UN Sanctions on North Korea

...economic pain and security gain in the context of increasingly comprehensive United Nations sanctions on North Korea. Sanctions are designed as a non-military tool to induce compliance by inflicting economic hardship on a target regime. However, our case study of North Korea raises strategic and normative concerns about the assumption that greater economic pain leads to greater security gains. Using a...

[학술논문] Foreign Policy Practices and International Law Constraints in Korea

...prioritized national security and its alliance with the U.S. over any general rules of international law. By contrast, in the process of implementing Korea’s multilateral foreign policy, the norms of international law have been given serious consideration as Korea’s UN and ICC diplomacy and WTO dispute settlement policy demonstrates. Korea’s firm belief in the collective security system has also been...

[학술논문] The Use of Force, Humanitarian Intervention, and the Responsibility to Protect - In the Light of a Recent North Korea Contingency Plan

...the overwhelming majority of contemporary legal opinion has been addressed against the existence of a right of humanitarian intervention. The rationale to defend conservatively the current collective security framework of the UN Charter is that at most the doctrine of humanitarian intervention has a tenuous basis, not yet crystallized, in current international customary law. On the other hand, still...

[학술논문] To What Extent Has a Concert of Powers Emerged in Response to the Security Challenge in the Korean Peninsula?

...cooperative security regime easily because it lacks both a collective regional identity and multilateral institutional experience owing to its legacy of colonialism and its bipolar structure during the Cold War. It was the North Korean nuclear issue, however, that led major regional actors to establish multilateral security dialogues, that is, the Six-Party Talks on how to manage a regional security challenge...

[학술논문] Beyond the Nuclear Umbrella: Re-thinking the Theory and Practice of Nuclear Extended Deterrence in East Asia and the Pacific

...inquiry in to the current state of nuclear extended deterrence is followed by an examination of the necessity, viability and desirability of reformed versions of nuclear extended deterrence (such as collective deterrence), and of three conceivable generic alternatives to reliance upon nuclear extended deterrence: namely nuclear rejection, nuclear recession, and conventional deterrence (possibly combined...

[국내] Asian NATO Versus Pragmatic Multi-Alignment: Assessing Middle-Power Realignment Pathways in Trump 2.0

...NATO-like multilateral collective defense organization. Before Shigeru Ishiba was elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and appointed Prime Minister of Japan in October 2024, he proposed the idea in a commentary published by the Hudson Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. He wrote: “Ukraine today is Asia tomorrow,” adding that “the absence of a collective self-defense system...

[해외] The Trouble With Permanent Alliances

...that sacrifice its adaptability and endanger its security. Temporary alliances are the more sensible norm. Throughout most of history, such partnerships were created to serve concrete diplomatic and strategic purposes. Indeed, the United States already treats some of its purportedly permanent alliances—such as the 1947 Rio Treaty, a collective security agreement covering most of the Western Hemisphere—as...

[국내] Managing Decline? NATO’s Uneasy Future After the 2025 Summit

...gathering. All things considered, the Summit was portrayed as a success by NATO members, yielding a succinct Hague Summit Declaration that affirmed NATO’s collective defense under Article 5 and allies’ commitment to invest 5% of GDP on defense and security by 2035.2 Yet beneath the carefully managed optics, fundamental concerns persist. The Summit felt less like a moment of strategic renewal and more like...

[국내] 사이버안보와 개발협력 연계 전략: 영국과 한국 사례 비교

...introducing collective initiatives against the common challenge. Against the fast-rising cyber power of the communist block, major countries and international organizations in Western societies have embarked on international cooperation programmes under the theme of cyber capacity building(CCB). Such attempts represent a new approach that makes a strategic connection between cyber security and development...

[국내] 빌뉴스 나토 정상회의의 의의: 글로벌 안보 동맹의 부상

...스웨덴의 신규 가입과 튀르키예의 친서방적 행보로 전환, 사이버와 우주, 기후변화 및 대테러 등 초국경적 사안에서 AP4 국가들과의 적극적인 연대 강화 움직임으로 나토는 글로벌 안보 동맹으로 부상 가능성까지 거론되고 있다는 것이다. 그렇다면 한국은 어디로 가야 하는가? 우크라이나 문제와 마찬가지로 한반도 문제도 본격적으로 全지구적 차원의 집단방위(collective defence) 사안으로 가시화되고 지정학 3.0시대 탈지구 정치가 도래하는 지금 한국은 더 이상 과거처럼 당면한 위협을 회피하거나, 강대국에 편승할 수만은 없게 되었다. 빠르게 변화하는 안보지형 속에서 한국이 고유한 안보이익을 지키기 위해서는 현재 나토나 유럽 국가들의 행보와 마찬가지로 전통적 지역 규정을 초월하여 인도·태평양 및 그 외 유사입장...