[학술논문] Organizing International Security in Northeast Asia: Hegemony, Concert of Powers, and Collective Security
...second crisis led to dialogues on how to manage a regional security issue. Moreover, the crisis underwent three diverse phases that can be used to test the assumptions behind three models of security studies: hegemony, concert of powers, and collective security. This analysis of the North Korean case demonstrates ways of organizing regional security in Northeast Asia in the post–Cold War era and thus...
[학술논문] China’s Anti-Access Strategy versus the US’s Air-Sea Battle Concept: Implications for the Korean Peninsula and East Asian Security
...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 a kind of collective security system in East Asia.
[학술논문] Should Japan go Nuclear?
In view of the changing security environment in Northeast Asia, stemming fromChina’s assertiveness in regional issues and North Korea’s nuclear weapons program,the threat perception in Japan has considerably heightened. This has triggered adebate domestically in Japan about whether it is an appropriate time to review itsnuclear option as a means of deterrence. Such thinking presupposes...
[학술논문] 아베 정권의 우경화와 동북아 안보 향배-집단적 자위권 추진과 대응방향을 중심으로-
By actively propelling policies that would strengthen the ties between the United States and Japan by means of revising US-Japan policies, the Abe regime has recently increased its right for collective self-protection. By closely examining the trend in the US-Japan alliance and its future directions, the Republic of Korea (ROK) should prepare for upcoming changes. First, the ROK government should establish...
[학술논문] The UN and the Korean Peninsula: The UN’s Role in and Commitment to the Unification Process
...Northeast Asian security environment. This security environment has undergone significant changes in the 66 years since the Korean War. Growing North Korean threats requires the ROK to find an effective way to deter North Korea. The collective security system which has guaranteed and organized peace and stability around the world is a reasonable option for the ROK’s security. This paper focuses...