[학술논문] China and the United States in East Asia: Dynamics of Contending
Contrary to the picture of the game a few years ago, China's diplomatic influence and effectiveness in its immediate periphery has been shrunk for a time, while the United States won in the same region so much new advantages diplomatically and strategically. These U.S. achievements are in a great extent due to their vitally important "chanced" conditions, conditions or conveniences not...
[학술논문] 동북아 평화를 위한 한ㆍ중 전략적협력동반자관계 심화방안 연구
The year 2013 has become a critical point in history at which the progression of the Northeast Asian dynamics could be adequately assessed. With the reelection of President Barack Obama in the U.S., the Democrats have come to endure. In China, Xi Jinping government has fully replaced Hu Jintao’s. In Russia, Vladmir Putin is fostering his dream of constructing a powerful Russian empire. In Japan...
[학술논문] Balance-of-Fear Theory and Korea-Japan-U.S. Relations, 1945-1953
This article, with balance-of-fear theory, explains the puzzling triangular dynamics of Korea-Japan-U.S. relations in the early Cold War period. Glenn Snyder’s concept of “alliance security dilemma” associated with abandonment/entrapment fears among allies, though useful, is not enough for explaining alliance/alignment politics among states. This article additionally employs two...
[학술논문] Future Warfare Dynamics and Response Strategies on the Korean Peninsula: Insights from the Russia–Ukraine War
...maximized its military benefits by verifying and improving the performance of its domestically developed advanced weapons systems. With North Korea’s nuclear and conventional military threats, the variable alliance policies of the new U.S. administration, and changes in the nature of future warfare following the Ukraine war, the ROK military now faces multiple crises, making the establishment...
[학술논문] Towards Gendering Northeast Asian Traditional Security: The Cases of the USS Pueblo and Juche Policy
...security dynamics, too. A major problem has been North Koreanmilitary provocations. South Korean and U.S. responses to such maneuvers havefurther contributed to regional instability. Using the case of the 1968 Pueblo Incident,the paper examines the context of military provocation and reaction with the focuson a suspected gender-bias in regional security affairs. The paper investigatesPyongyang’s motivation...