Park, Ihn-hwi

Abstract
Throughout the Cold War, Korea-US and US-Japan alliances in Northeast Asia functioned as United States’ major security network. However, as the substance of both global and Northeast Asian regional security relations is transforming, theoretical and policy-oriented reconfiguration of the bilateral alliance is rapidly making progress. It is understood that changes in the identity of the ROK-U.S. and U.S.-Japan alliance in terms of threat perception and security goal are fairly differentiated. In case of ROK-US alliance the common foundation of the alliance such as perception on deterrent subject is slowly collapsing. At the same time the U.S. has shown a firm vision on the ROK-U.S. alliance and confirmed a continuous discussion and compromise with its counterpart. The U.S-Japan alliance is affected by more complicated diplomatic relationship between the two nations. Most importantly, the future U.S-Japan alliance will act as an institutional tool contributing not only for Northeast Asia’s security, but for Japan to contribute for international security.
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