[학술논문] Politics at the Water’s Edge: The Presidency, Congress, and U.S. Policy toward North Korea
...seeks to explain why the Clinton and Bush administrations ultimately failed to prevent a nuclear North Korea. It finds the origins of this failure in the relations between the executive and the legislative branches and, more specifically, different government types: unified government and divided government. It particularly emphasizes the role of Congress and partisan politics in the making of U.S. policy...
[학술논문] The Different Choices of South Korea: Seeds of Discord of South Korea and US Relations
...to that of the United States. This study started with the question of what variables explain South Korean policy toward North Korea in the Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun administrations and why South Korea has not followed the US leadership since the Kim Dae-jung presidency, unlike in the past. In order to answer the above puzzle, this study tries to analyze the puzzling situation with the feature of...
[학술논문] 1. Theorization of Kim Dae Jung’s Pursuit of Inter-Korean Economic Exchanges: 2. Complex interdependence model
...framework to explain the substantial changes in inter-Korean relations during the Kim Dae Jung presidency, this paper proposes complex interdependence model as an ideal type of relationship. The model reflects a key pattern of changes in international relations, typified by transnational interaction and asymmetrical reciprocity, and these notions also create a backdrop that generated the Kim Dae Jung policy...
[학술논문] 6 · 25전쟁기 대통령 트루먼의 전쟁지도 : 제3차 세계대전 방지
...evaluate the presidency of Harry S. Truman during the Korean War? President Truman decided to intervene in the Korean War immediately after receiving reports about the outbreak of war on the peninsula. In his eyes, the invasion launched by North Korea was not an isolated event but a part of the Communists' grand scheme to conquer the world. It was his belief that inability on his part to sever the spread...
[학술논문] The North Korean Issue, Park Geun-hye’s Presidency, and the Possibility of Trust-building on the Korean Peninsula
For at least the past twenty years, the debate about how best to deal with North Korea has focused on whether pressure and isolation are more likely to change North Korean behavior, or whether inducements and engagement are more likely to produce results. This essay will explore the nuclear, economic, and humanitarian challenges that North Korea poses to the new South Korean President Park Geun-hye...