Divided Korea
Author: Roland Bleiker
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published:
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1452907323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenges the prevailing logic of confrontation and deterrence on the Korean peninsula.
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The Koreas
Author: Theodore Jun Yoo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-09-27
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0520391683
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Korea is one of the last divided countries in the world. Twins born of the Cold War, one is vilified as an isolated, impoverished, time-warped state with an abysmal human rights record and a reclusive leader who perennially threatens global security with his clandestine nuclear weapons program. The other is lauded as a thriving democratic and capitalist state with the thirteenth largest economy in the world and a model that developing countries should emulate. In The Koreas, Theodore Jun Yoo provides a ... gateway to understanding the divergent developments of contemporary North and South Korea. In contrast to standard histories, Yoo examines the unique qualities of the Korean diaspora experience, which has challenged the master narratives of national culture, homogeneity, belongingness, and identity"--
Korea
Author: Martin Hart-Landsberg
Publisher:
Published: 1998-12
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Korean unification is one of the most important issues on the international agenda today. Hart-Landsberg's broad-ranging inquiry develops a perspective that is rarely heard, and that merits careful attention. It is a valuable contribution to a debate that should not be delayed." --Noam Chomsky
Reconciling Divided States
Author: Dong Jin Kim
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781003054276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book offers a distinctive perspective on peace processes by comparatively analysing two cases which have rarely been studied in tandem, Ireland and Korea. The volume examines and compares Ireland and Korea as two peace/conflict areas. Despite their differences, both places are marked by a number of overlaid states of division: a political border in a geographical unit (an island and a peninsula); an antagonistic relationship within the population of those territories; an international relationship recovering from past asymmetry and colonialism; and divisions within the main groupings over how to address these relationships. Written by academics and practitioners from Europe and East Asia, and guided by the concepts of peacebuilding and reconciliation, the chapters assess peace efforts at all levels, from the elite to grassroot organisations. Topics discussed include: historical parallels; modern debates over the legacy of the past; contemporary constitutional and security issues; civil society peacebuilding in relation to faith, sport, and women's activism; and the role of economic assistance. The book brings Ireland and Korea into a rich dialogue which highlights the successes and shortcomings of both peace processes This book will be of interest to students of Peace and Conflict Studies, Irish Politics, Korean Politics, and International Relations"--
Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea
Author: Nan Kim
Publisher: AsiaWorld
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780739184714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on regional geopolitics, social dynamics, watershed political rituals, and family narratives, this book explores the cultural process of moving from enmity to engagement amidst the complex legacies of civil war and the global Cold War following the Inter-Korean Summit of June 2000.
Divided Korea
Author: Joungwon A. Kim
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 1684171903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comparative study of the political systems of North and South Korea under the sponsorship of different foreign powers, through the efforts of different leadership groups, from the moment of collapse of the Japanese colonial regime in 1945 to 1972. In comparing the developments in the two Koreas, the author is especially concerned with the role played by political leaders, the contrasting uses of political tools, the relative influence played by various factors both within and without the society, and the contrasting processes of consolidation of power by the newly established political elites and the institutionalization of two distinct systems.
Within Limits
Author: Wayne Thompson
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1997-07
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 0788140094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite American success in preventing the conquest of South Korea by communist North Korea, the Korean War of 1950-1953 did not satisfy Americans who expected the kind of total victory they had experienced in WW II. In Korea, the U.S. limited itself to conventional weapons. Even after communist China entered the war, Americans put China off-limits to conventional bombing as well as nuclear bombing. Operating within these limits, the U.S. Air Force helped to repel 2 invasions of South Korea while securing control of the skies so decisively that other U.N. forces could fight without fear of air attack.
DMZ Crossing
Author: Suk-Young Kim
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-03-18
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0231537263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Korean demilitarized zone might be among the most heavily guarded places on earth, but it also provides passage for thousands of defectors, spies, political emissaries, war prisoners, activists, tourists, and others testing the limits of Korean division. This book focuses on a diverse selection of inter-Korean border crossers and the citizenship they acquire based on emotional affiliation rather than constitutional delineation. Using their physical bodies and emotions as optimal frontiers, these individuals resist the state's right to draw geopolitical borders and define their national identity. Drawing on sources that range from North Korean documentary films, museum exhibitions, and theater productions to protester perspectives and interviews with South Korean officials and activists, this volume recasts the history of Korean division and draws a much more nuanced portrait of the region's Cold War legacies. The book ultimately helps readers conceive of the DMZ as a dynamic summation of personalized experiences rather than as a fixed site of historical significance.
Korea, the Divided Nation
Author: Edward Olsen
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2005-09-30
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"After a survey of Korea's geographic setting and historic legacy, Olsen details the circumstances of Korea's liberation and subsequent division. Drawing on that background, he analyzes the evolution of both South Korea and North Korea as separate states and surveys the politics, economics, and foreign policy of each."--BOOK JACKET.
Crisis in a Divided Korea
Author: James I. Matray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2016-04-18
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides scholars and students examining Korea's place in modern world politics with an invaluable resource for understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the ongoing crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Why is Korea still divided into two nations? How does the decades-old tension between North Korea and South Korea affect all of Asia as well as influence several of the world's major powers, including Japan, the People's Republic of China, Russia, and the United States? This book provides answers to these questions and more, presenting readers with descriptions of historical developments in Korea's past and supplying the necessary context for understanding why the Korean Peninsula remains split at the 38th parallel. Two comprehensive opening chapters present a broad overview of events in Korea's history from ancient times through the start of World War II. The subsequent chapters cover Korea's role in the Cold War, describing the Soviet-American sponsorship of two Koreas, the Korean War, Soviet and Chinese support for North Korea, the U.S. alliance with South Korea, South Korea's long struggle to achieve democracy, the Kim dynasty in North Korea, and moments of tension and cooperation between North and South Korea. Written in a clear, direct, and accessible style, the book will be valuable to high school, undergraduate, and graduate-level students.
