[학술논문] South Korea’s Regional Cooperation: A Challenge to the European Integration Model

...finally confronts the classic regional integration to the double view that South Korea has on regional cooperation: territorial and identity-led with regards to North Korea; functional and economically-led with regards to rest of the world. By analyzing some concrete cooperation examples (Six-party Talks, FTAs, ASEAN Plus Three), it highlights the absence of a true regional integration design and the...

[학술논문] Alliance Theory and Northeast Asia: Challenges on the 60th Anniversary of the Korea-U.S. Alliance

...confidence-building measures among regional states. The problem, however, is that while the Korea-U.S. alliance has evolved into a relationship that encompasses economic, social and cultural cooperation in the post-Cold War period, South Korea’s core security interest—the improvement of inter-Korean relations and the realization of peace on the Korean Peninsula—cannot be attained...

[학술논문] Regional cooperation for Regional conflicts: the EU experience as a model

...an argument that the EU’s integration history is a good example of how regional cooperation and integration contributes to the positive transformation of regional conflicts. Given this European experience, a number of scholars argue that regional cooperation may generate a positive effect on the resolution of regional conflicts, and this view would surely deserve our due attention. Against this...

[학술논문] China’s Anti-Access Strategy versus the US’s Air-Sea Battle Concept: Implications for the Korean Peninsula and East Asian Security

...initiatives and invite reciprocation of North Korea as a long-term strategy for cooperation. Finally, to prevent regional conflicts, regional states should establish a legally binding mechanism. The legally binding mechanism needs to pursue a middle course between the regional alliance and the multilateral security cooperation system to control the two giants’ (the US and China) unilateralism, as...

[학술논문] 격동의 동아시아: 박근혜 정부 대외정책의 과제

...Asian countries will be significantly driven by the U.S.-PRC competition for regional political and economic networks. By envisioning a common scheme for peace and prosperity in Northeast Asia, the ROK should avoid a situation in which it would take a side between the U.S. and the PRC. Likewise, trilateral security cooperation among the ROK, the U.S., and Japan should be equipped with common values and...