[학술논문] When Structure Conditions Memory: The Prospects for a South Korea-Japan Economic and Security Cooperation
This paper explores the prospects for South Korea-Japan economic and security cooperation beyond the politics of memory. It asks why institutionalized cooperation between South Korea and Japan has remained limited despite persistent strategic incentives. Existing research has often addressed this puzzle through a constructivist lens, emphasizing historical antagonism, mutual distrust rooted in collective...
[학술논문] Destabilizing the Balance of Threat on the Korean Peninsula: The Russia-North Korea Military Alliance
This study addresses why South Korea, despite its military and economic superiority, remains deeply concerned about North Korea, particularly amid Pyongyang’s expand-ing military cooperation with Russia. It argues that the balance of power theory fails to explain this paradox, whereas Stephen Walt’s balance of threat theory provides a more convincing framework. Focusing on perceived intentions rather...
[학술논문] Korea–Japan Relations in 2025: The Solidification of Security Cooperation and the Fading of History
...longstanding ally, the United States, to rearrange their economic and security arrangements to better accommodate American imperatives. Amid this heightened state of uncertainty and instability, the history issue faded somewhat in significance – or more to the point, it had to be considered alongside present and future security (and to a lesser degree, economic) imperatives. Rather than being faced with a choice...
[학술논문] The Multilateral Economic Cooperation for Tumen River Area and China’s Leadership: From the TRADP of UNDP to Chinese Plan of “Chang-Ji-Tu” Development and Opening-up Pilot Area
This research shows how international economic cooperation of Northeast Asian countries has evolved through the plans of economic development around Tumen River area from the UNDP’s proposition of the Tumen River Area Development Programme(TRADP) in 1991 to the current China’s plan of the “Chang-Ji-Tu” Development and Opening-up Pilot Area (CJT). Based on the theoretical debates between structural...
[학술논문] The Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea and Implications for the Two Koreas' Economic Cooperation
... to be achieved and for NK to benefit economically through inter‐Korean economic cooperation, political change in NK must come first.