Politics, International Relations and Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula
Politics, International Relations and Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula

Author: Sojin Lim

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-21

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1000918599

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This edited volume explores the past, present, and future of the Korean Peninsula, with special focus on South Korea, by connecting developments in politics with those in international relations and diplomacy. The book focuses on how South Korea’s politics and international relations have evolved since the founding of the First Republic in 1948, with particular attention to the period surrounding the 2022 presidential election. The authors provide new insights into Korean politics, including South Korean electoral reform and relations with China and Japan, North Korea’s nuclear capacity, and North–South diplomacy. Beginning with a commentary by Colin Crooks, Britain’s current Ambassador to South Korea and former Ambassador to North Korea, on recent British foreign policy changes and UK–Korea relations, this book will appeal to scholars and students of politics, international relations, diplomacy, and Korean Studies.

The Making of Modern Korea
The Making of Modern Korea

Author: Adrian Buzo

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-11-30

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1000776654

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This fully updated fourth edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced, and engaging history of Korea from 1876 to the present day. The text is unique in analysing domestic developments in the two Koreas in the wider context of regional and international affairs. Key features of the book include: comprehensive coverage of modern Korean history since 1876 expanded coverage of social and cultural affairs up-to-date analysis of contemporary North Korea, including assessments of the Kim Jong Un administration and development of its nuclear weapons programme a detailed chronology and suggestions for further reading The Making of Modern Korea is a valuable one-volume resource for students of modern Korean history, international politics, and Asian Studies.

Politics in North and South Korea
Politics in North and South Korea

Author: Yangmo Ku

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-06

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1317236750

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Politics in North and South Korea provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the political dynamics of the two Koreas. Giving equal weight to North and South Korea, the authors trace the history of political and economic development and international relations of the Korean peninsula, showing how South Korea became democratized and how Juche ideology has affected the establishment and operation of a totalitarian system in North Korea. Written in a straightforward, jargon free manner, this textbook utilizes both historical-institutional approaches and quantitative evidence to analyse the political dimensions of a wide variety of issues including: Legacies of early-twentieth-century Japanese colonial rule South Korean democratization and democratic consolidation South Korean diplomacy and North Korean nuclear crises The economic development of both North and South Korea The three-generation power succession in North Korea North Korean human rights issues Inter-Korean relations and reunification This textbook will be essential reading for students of Korean Politics and is also suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on East Asian Politics, Asian Studies, and International Relations.

The Koreans
The Koreans

Author: Donald S Macdonald

Publisher: Westview Press

Published: 1996-08-23

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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South Korean Economic Development, 1961-1995 -- South Korea's Current Economic Situation -- The International Component in South Korea's Economy -- South Korean Economic Prospects: The Seventh Five-Year Plan and Beyond -- Evolution of the North Korean Economy -- Present State of the North Korean Economy -- Prospects -- Notes -- 7 Korean National Security and Foreign Relations -- Introduction -- Foreign Relations of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) -- Foreign Relations of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(North Korea) -- Overseas Korean Residents as a Foreign-Policy Factor, 266 Notes -- 8 The Problem of Korean Reunification -- Introduction -- Why Korea Was Divided -- The Case for Korean Unification -- Unification Policies and Initiatives -- The Record on Unification in the 1990s -- Unification Prospects -- Notes -- Appendix A: Glossary -- Appendix B: The Korean Language and Its Romanization -- Appendix C: Korean Studies Reading List -- About the Book, the Author, and the Editor -- Index

Korea and the World
Korea and the World

Author: Gregg A. Brazinsky

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-04-08

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1498591132

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This edited volume brings together a set of essays exploring the global dimensions of Korea’s recent history and politics by a group of the most talented young scholars. Essays in the volume seek to answer two interrelated questions: How have international developments impacted Korea? And how has Korea in turn influenced world events and trends? The volume demonstrates that the most important issues in Korea’s post World War II history—division, war, economic development, and inter-Korean rivalry—cannot be understood without reference to the country’s global interactions. Essays in the volume cover a range of topics including: U.S.-South Korean relations, North Korean foreign policy, immigration, and democratization. The essays included in the volume push the boundaries of several different subfields. Historical essays break new ground by introducing new archival materials and revealing important details about the past diplomacy of the two Korea’s. Others consider aspects of American influence on Korea that have previously been ignored such as the U.S. impact on urban development and food consumption. Essays on contemporary Korean politics and society make sense of most recent developments in North and South Korea while presenting intriguing new interpretive frameworks. By bringing new voices in Korean Studies to the forefront, this volume changes how we understand and reconceptualize Korea’s role in the world.

Visual Politics and North Korea
Visual Politics and North Korea

Author: David Shim

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-15

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1135011370

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In the realm of international relations, there are seemingly few states like North Korea. Whether it is the country’s human rights situation, its precarious everyday life or its so-called foreign policy of coercion and nuclear brinkmanship, no matter what this ‘pariah’ nation says and does it affects the state and stability of regional and global politics. But what do we know about North Korea and how do we come to know it? This book argues that visual imagery plays a decisive role in this operation. By discussing two exemplary areas – everyday photography and satellite imagery – the book takes into account the role of images in the way that particular issues related to North Korea are understood in contemporary geopolitics. Images work. They do something by evoking a particular perspective of what is shown in them, allowing only specific ways of seeing and knowing. In this sense, images are deeply political. Individual methodological usages in the book can provide a procedural basis from which to start or rethink further studies on visuality, both in IR and beyond. It also opens an innovative path for future studies on East Asia, making the book attractive to a range of specialists and thus holding an appeal beyond the boundaries of a single discipline.