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Book Journal of Korean Affairs

Download or read book Journal of Korean Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Korean Journal of International Studies

Download or read book The Korean Journal of International Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of East Asian Affairs

Download or read book The Journal of East Asian Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fearing the Worst

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samuel F. Wells Jr.
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2019-11-26
  • ISBN : 0231549946
  • Pages : 518 pages

Download or read book Fearing the Worst written by Samuel F. Wells Jr. and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, the escalating tensions of the Cold War shaped the international system. Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades. Samuel F. Wells Jr. examines how military and political events interacted to escalate the conflict. Decisions made by the Truman administration in the first six months of the Korean War drove both superpowers to intensify their defense buildup. American leaders feared the worst-case scenario—that Stalin was prepared to start World War III—and raced to build up strategic arms, resulting in a struggle they did not seek out or intend. Their decisions stemmed from incomplete interpretations of Soviet and Chinese goals, especially the belief that China was a Kremlin puppet. Yet Stalin, Mao, and Kim Il-sung all had their own agendas, about which the United States lacked reliable intelligence. Drawing on newly available documents and memoirs—including previously restricted archives in Russia, China, and North Korea—Wells analyzes the key decision points that changed the course of the war. He also provides vivid profiles of the central actors as well as important but lesser known figures. Bringing together studies of military policy and diplomacy with the roles of technology, intelligence, and domestic politics in each of the principal nations, Fearing the Worst offers a new account of the Korean War and its lasting legacy.

Book The Korean Journal of Security Affairs

Download or read book The Korean Journal of Security Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South Korean Identity and Global Foreign Policy

Download or read book South Korean Identity and Global Foreign Policy written by Patrick Flamm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 20th century, South Korea was usually seen as a "shrimp amongst whales", a minor player with limited agency in regional and global affairs. Korea’s risen status as a "middle power" today, however, begs the question about related changes in the South Korean identity or "sense of self" in the world. In this book, Patrick Flamm presents the first comprehensive and agency oriented empirical account of South Korean international state identity and Seoul’s global foreign policy in the 21st century. Advancing a performative and narrative understanding of identity in International Relations, Flamm uses South Korea’s global engagement in peacekeeping and climate diplomacy to offer much-needed insight into the various identity narratives and role conceptions at play. In the case of peacekeeping and climate diplomacy, South Korea’s identity as an international actor has been dominated by practices of self-identification that position the country at the brink of advanced countries, aspiring to lead the rest of the world but with the overall objective to maintain national autonomy in a changing regional and global context. South Korean Identity and Global Foreign Policy is a must-read for scholars of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis and Asian/Korean Studies.

Book Journal of Korean Affairs

Download or read book Journal of Korean Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Journal of Korean Studies

Download or read book International Journal of Korean Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Asia Pacific Affairs

Download or read book Journal of Asia Pacific Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Korean Affairs

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Korean Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Journal of Korean Unification Studies

Download or read book International Journal of Korean Unification Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Korea Journal

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Korea Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Korean Affairs

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  • Author : Council on Korean Affairs (KOREA Republic of Korea.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Korean Affairs written by Council on Korean Affairs (KOREA Republic of Korea.) and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographical Catalogue of English Publications

Download or read book Bibliographical Catalogue of English Publications written by Korea (South). 國土統一院 and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Service of His Korean Majesty

Download or read book In the Service of His Korean Majesty written by Wayne Patterson and published by Institute of East Asian Studies University of California - B. This book was released on 2012 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book, based upon the correspondence of William Nelson Lovatt, Korea's first commissioner of customs in Pusan, looks at the informal imperialism exercised by China over Korea in the 1880s, as China's increasing interventionism affected Lovatt's hiring, his experiences in Korea, and his eventual termination"--Provided by publisher.

Book Top Down Democracy in South Korea

Download or read book Top Down Democracy in South Korea written by Erik Mobrand and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of the story of the construction and practice of democracy. In Top-Down Democracy in South Korea, Erik Mobrand documents another part – the elite-led design and management of electoral and party institutions. Even as the country left authoritarian rule behind, elites have responded to freer and fairer elections by entrenching rather than abandoning exclusionary practices and forms of party organization. Exploring South Korea’s political development from 1945 through the end of dictatorship in the 1980s and into the twenty-first century, Mobrand challenges the view that the origins of the postauthoritarian political system lie in a series of popular movements that eventually undid repression. He argues that we should think about democratization not as the establishment of an entirely new system, but as the subtle blending of new formal rules with earlier authority structures, political institutions, and legitimizing norms.

Book Empire and Righteous Nation

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  • Author : Odd Arne Westad
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2021-01-12
  • ISBN : 0674238214
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Empire and Righteous Nation written by Odd Arne Westad and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning historian, a concise overview of the deep and longstanding ties between China and the Koreas, providing an essential foundation for understanding East Asian geopolitics today. In a concise, trenchant overview, Odd Arne Westad explores the cultural and political relationship between China and the Koreas over the past 600 years. Koreans long saw China as a mentor. The first form of written Korean employed Chinese characters and remained in administrative use until the twentieth century. Confucianism, especially Neo-Confucian reasoning about the state and its role in promoting a virtuous society, was central to the construction of the Korean government in the fourteenth century. These shared Confucian principles were expressed in fraternal terms, with China the older brother and Korea the younger. During the Ming Dynasty, mentor became protector, as Korea declared itself a vassal of China in hopes of escaping ruin at the hands of the Mongols. But the friendship eventually frayed with the encroachment of Western powers in the nineteenth century. Koreans began to reassess their position, especially as Qing China seemed no longer willing or able to stand up for Korea against either the Western powers or the rising military threat from Meiji Japan. The Sino-Korean relationship underwent further change over the next century as imperialism, nationalism, revolution, and war refashioned states and peoples throughout Asia. Westad describes the disastrous impact of the Korean War on international relations in the region and considers Sino-Korean interactions today, especially the thorny question of the reunification of the Korean peninsula. Illuminating both the ties and the tensions that have characterized the China-Korea relationship, Empire and Righteous Nation provides a valuable foundation for understanding a critical geopolitical dynamic.