[학술논문] THE CLASH OF SOFT POWERS BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN: SYNERGY AND DILEMMAS AT THE SIX-PARTY TALKS
...produce “soft-power synergy” while Japan became stuck with a “softpower dilemma.” Soft-power synergy refers to an outcome within which a success of an outward (foreign) soft-power strategy brings about simultaneous success of inward (domestic) soft-power strategy. On the other hand, soft-power dilemma denotes an outcome where a success of outward (or inward) soft-power strategy produces...
[학술논문] NORTH KOREAN STRATEGIES IN THE ASYMMETRIC NUCLEAR CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES
The traditional structural-power approach falls short of accounting for North Korea’s nuclear strategies. Contrary to conventional wisdom, North Korea has been engaged in balancing acts against the United States, employing internal balancing,soft balancing, and omnibalancing strategies, while deviating from bandwagoning, the dominant strategy of small states. The present analysis of the North...
[학술논문] Political Dynamics of Hereditary Succession in North Korea
...conditions. The consolidation of Kim Jong-un’s power should solve three political challenges. The first is to inherit and repackage Kim Jong-il’s power legacy. The second is to reorganize the party-state’s higher power agencies and adapt them to new realities in the country. The third is to build Kim Jong-un’s own personal power base. There are four main structural factors which...
[학술논문] Europe and North Korea: Competing Security and Humanitarian Impulses
...into five soft power issues: humanitarian assistance (especially food and medical assistance); human rights and democracy; training and education exchanges and programs; trade and investment; and the promotion of economic reforms and economic modernization of North Korea. While some of these issues touch upon security or hard power issues, they reflect the spectrum of economic and soft power activities...
[학술논문] 사회적 신뢰형성을 위한 북한이탈주민 공연예술단체의 활동 분석
남북통일의 과정과 통일 이후 한국사회에서 국민 간 신뢰 형성 및 한반도 사회 통합은 매우 중요한 부분이라는 인식 아래, 이 과정 중 예술이 기여할 수 있는 방안을 연구하였다. 통일한국사회를 준비하며 예술 중심의 신뢰형성전략 개발 및 실행방안에 대하여 학술적 논의를 진행하였다. 본 연구의 개념적 틀은 나이(Nye Jr.)의 소프트 파워(soft power), 오페(Offe)의 신뢰(trust), 위조미어스키(Wyszomirsk)의 예술의 공공목적 개념을 바탕으로 구성되었고, 이러한 개념적 틀을 토대로 어떻게 예술이, 특히 북한이탈주민의 예술활동이 남·북한 시민 간 상호이해와 신뢰를 형성하는 데에 기여할 수 있는 가에 대한 과정에 대해 살펴보았다. 본 연구는 정성연구방법으로 조사·연구하였으며...