[학술논문] Russian Foreign Policy Toward East Asia in the Post–Cold War Era: A Geopolitical Perspective
Russia’s foreign policy in the relationship with East Asia countries in the post–Cold War era can be summarized as follows. First, Russia recognized China as a key partner in this region and actively expanded its cooperation with China. Second, Russia maintained a defensive position in its territorial negotiations in the 1990s to expand economic cooperation with Japan but shifted to a firmer
[학술논문] Leadership and Multilateralism in the Recent North Korean Crisis
...scholars tend to focus more on systemic or structural variables or some political reasons. In light of the fact that contrary to the mainstream theories' expectations, the Northeast Asia's geopolitics have not followed what each theories propose in the process and consequence of multilateral security efforts, this study tries to search for alternative theorization with regards to untangling various...
[학술논문] The Greater Tumen Region Development Programme and Multilateral Policy Rationales: Geopolitical Factors Reconsidered
The Tumen River area is considered to be strongly affected by geopolitics, and theGTI programme still has a very long way to go before it can be declared a successstory. This article argues that political factors may have a steadily increasingeffect on the GTI as part of a geoeconomic micro-regionalist framework. Indeed,political rivalries among the participants often appear more salient than regionalones...
[학술논문] China’s Threat Perception and Response Strategy toward the THAAD Deployment in South Korea-Focusing on Power, Identity, Geopolitics Factors-
... and to understand China’s strong objections towards THAAD. This paper emphasizes that China’s perceived threat is consolidated around the complex interplay of power, identity, and geopolitics factors and that continued academic and policy-related attention is required to accurately understand them. Successful diplomatic solutions might be hard to come to unless China’s perceived...
[학술논문] 인구, 이주, 난민안보의 ‘복합지정학’ : 지구촌 신흥안보의 위협과 한반도에의 함의
...맥락에서도 이미 발생하고 있지만, 정치, 군사적 이슈가 여전히 가장 중차대한 안보문제인 한국에서 신흥안보 이슈나 그와 관련된 지역차원의 협력문제는 부차적 관심영역에 머물러 있는 실정이다. 하지만 군사적 전통안보의 관점만으로는 오늘날 한반도를 둘러싼 복잡한 지정학적 안보문제를 제대로 이해할 수 없으므로 ‘복합지정학’(complex geopolitics)의 관점에서 전통-비전통안보의 상호작용을 고찰할 필요가 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 어떤 특정한 신흥안보이슈가 어떠한 복잡한 과정을 거쳐 사회안보나 국가안보에 위협이 되는지, 그리고 이러한 신흥안보가 어떠한 상황에서 지정학적, 군사적 이슈와 맞물려 심각한 국가 간 긴장이나 충돌을 야기할 수 있는 국가적, 지역적, 세계적 안보문제가 되는지에 대하여 고찰하고자...