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Against the backdrop of China's mounting influence and North Korea's growing nuclear capability, South Korea is a rising middle power and faces a set of strategic choices that will shape its economic prospects and national security. Snyder examines fifty years of South Korean foreign polic...
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Columbia University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Against the backdrop of China's mounting influence and North Korea's growing nuclear capability, South Korea is a rising middle power and faces a set of strategic choices that will shape its economic prospects and national security. Snyder examines fifty years of South Korean foreign policy and recommends balancing autonomy with a robust alliance with the United States. |
| Item Description: | "A Council on Foreign Relations book." |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-342) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780231185486 0231185480 |
| Index Number: | JZ1747 |
| CLC: | D831.262 |
| Call Number: | D831.262/S675 |
| Contents: | South Korean strategic choices -- Strategic choices under authoritarian rule -- Roh Tae-Woo and Kim Young-Sam : Nordpolitik and democratization -- Kim Dae-Jung and the sunshine policy -- Roh Moo-Hyun's balancer policy -- Lee Myung-Bak's global Korea policy -- Park Geun-Hye's Asian paradox -- The paradox of South Korea's middle-power status -- Korea between the United States and China -- Unification and Korean strategic choices -- Epilogue : South Korean strategic choices and the U.S.-South Korea alliance -- Select source documents. Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Repu |