Summary This comprehensive study provides a detailed analysis of the military buildup in the East Asian countries: China, Taiwan, Japan, and North and South Korea.…
Country or Region: South Korea
Abstract The three-way relationship among the US, Japan, and ROK today (a unified Korea at some point in the future) will have a profound impact…
Abstract he Asia-Pacific region is home to a large and rapidly growing number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). These agreements differ widely in design, scope…
Abstract Nuclear-related issues remain at the core of the Seoul-Washington partnership. These include shared nuclear weapons threats to both partners from North Korea, tussles between South Koreans…
Abstract Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) are said to have been in a “quasi-alliance” since the Cold War period, drawing closer at times…
Abstract Distrust between the United States and China continues to grow in Northeast Asia. Among many contributing factors, the North Korea issue is one of…
Abstract Russia continues struggling with its identity, leaning either toward being a European or an Asian country, or representing the link between the two regions.…
Abstract Distrust between the United States and China continues to grow in Northeast Asia. Among many contributing factors, the North Korea issue is one of…
Abstract Because of rapid economic growth and close economic interdependence, East Asia has recently been in the spotlight of regional integration theorists. Currently, East Asia…
Abstract This paper examines the relevance of logics for transferring Operational Control authority (OPCON) from the CFC (ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command) and draws several lessons…
Abstract The year 2015 has many implications for South Korea. It marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in 1945, the…
Abstract The present article looks at the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War from an historical and comparative perspective, scrutinizing the diverging pathways…
Summary This book addresses the compulsions that underlie the China’s relations with India and South Korea— both increasingly mutually dependent on China for markets, trade,…
Abstract The United States shares with many Pacific powers both relief that the world returned to peace, after the greatest conflagration in world history, and pride…
Abstract Most studies on the decision by the Republic of Korea (ROK) to send troops into combat in the Vietnam War share an assumption that the…
