South Korea's Wild Ride
The Big Shifts in Foreign Policy from 2013 to 2022
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2023
186 pages
978-1-000-95678-8 (ISBN)
Description
Rozman, Terry, and Jo analyze the geopolitical shifts in South Korea's policies toward its neighbors and allies over the course of the Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in administrations into the early years of the Yoon Suk-yeol administration.
2013 to 2022 was a tumultuous decade in South Korean politics and especially in its foreign policy. Through two changes of its own presidency, as well as the rise and fall of the Trump administration in the United States, South Korea's politicians and diplomats have pursued different attempts at bridge-building with North Korea, before arriving at a more cautious and defensive position. The authors track the different attempts by Park and Moon to pursue increasingly optimistic attempts at reconciliation, and how they were thwarted by excessive idealism, domestic divisions, and broader great power rivalries-notably including Russia, China, and Japan.
An essential guide to understanding the trajectory of South Korean foreign policy, for students of Korean politics as well as scholars and policy practitioners.
2013 to 2022 was a tumultuous decade in South Korean politics and especially in its foreign policy. Through two changes of its own presidency, as well as the rise and fall of the Trump administration in the United States, South Korea's politicians and diplomats have pursued different attempts at bridge-building with North Korea, before arriving at a more cautious and defensive position. The authors track the different attempts by Park and Moon to pursue increasingly optimistic attempts at reconciliation, and how they were thwarted by excessive idealism, domestic divisions, and broader great power rivalries-notably including Russia, China, and Japan.
An essential guide to understanding the trajectory of South Korean foreign policy, for students of Korean politics as well as scholars and policy practitioners.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-000-95678-8 (9781000956788)
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Gilbert Rozman | Sue Mi Terry | Eun A. Jo
South Korea's Wild Ride
The Big Shifts in Foreign Policy from 2013 to 2022
Book
09/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Gilbert Rozman is Emeritus Musgrave Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, USA and Editor-in-Chief of the Asan Forum, South Korea.
Sue Mi Terry is Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington DC, USA.
Eun A Jo is a doctoral candidate at Cornell University and a fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University, USA.
Sue Mi Terry is Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington DC, USA.
Eun A Jo is a doctoral candidate at Cornell University and a fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University, USA.
Content
Introduction
Part One: South Korea in the Hot Seat, 2013-2015
1. A Trustpolitik Approach to Denuclearization and Unification
2. Managing Four Great Powers
3. Remaking of Conservative Narratives
Part Two: South Korea's High Stakes Diplomacy, 2016-2019
4. Great Hopes, Shattered Dreams
5. Gambling on Great Power Relations
6. Return of Progressive Narratives
Part Three: South Korea Sobers Up, 2020-2022
7. Shift to the New Missile Age: 2020-2022
8. Edging toward Bipolarity: South Korea's Regional Reorientation, 2020-2022
9. Battling Partisan Narratives
Part One: South Korea in the Hot Seat, 2013-2015
1. A Trustpolitik Approach to Denuclearization and Unification
2. Managing Four Great Powers
3. Remaking of Conservative Narratives
Part Two: South Korea's High Stakes Diplomacy, 2016-2019
4. Great Hopes, Shattered Dreams
5. Gambling on Great Power Relations
6. Return of Progressive Narratives
Part Three: South Korea Sobers Up, 2020-2022
7. Shift to the New Missile Age: 2020-2022
8. Edging toward Bipolarity: South Korea's Regional Reorientation, 2020-2022
9. Battling Partisan Narratives
