Journal of Korean Affairs
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 552
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The Japan–South Korea Identity Clash
Author: Brad Glosserman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-05-26
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0231539282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapan and South Korea are Western-style democracies with open-market economies committed to the rule of law. They are also U.S. allies. Yet despite their shared interests, shared values, and geographic proximity, divergent national identities have driven a wedge between them. Drawing on decades of expertise, Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder investigate the roots of this split and its ongoing threat to the region and the world. Glosserman and Snyder isolate competing notions of national identity as the main obstacle to a productive partnership between Japan and South Korea. Through public opinion data, interviews, and years of observation, they show how fundamentally incompatible, rapidly changing conceptions of national identity in Japan and South Korea—and not struggles over power or structural issues—have complicated territorial claims and international policy. Despite changes in the governments of both countries and concerted efforts by leading political figures to encourage U.S.–ROK–Japan security cooperation, the Japan–South Korea relationship continues to be hobbled by history and its deep imprint on ideas of national identity. This book recommends bold, policy-oriented prescriptions for overcoming problems in Japan–South Korea relations and facilitating trilateral cooperation among these three Northeast Asian allies, recognizing the power of the public on issues of foreign policy, international relations, and the prospects for peace in Asia.
Fearing the Worst
Author: Samuel F. Wells Jr.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-11-26
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 0231549946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter 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.
North Korea
Author: Hazel Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-09
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0521897785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a historically founded, empirical study of social and economic transformation wrought by 'marketisation from below' in North Korea.
The Evolution of the South Korea–US Alliance
Author: Uk Heo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-09-27
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 110710467X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive look at the role of history, economics, security, threat perception, and domestic politics in the South Korea-United States alliance.
The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation
Author: JaHyun Kim Haboush
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-03-08
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0231540981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Chosôn Dynasty endured, but within its polity a new, national discourse began to emerge. Meant to inspire civilians to rise up against the Japanese army, this potent rhetoric conjured a unified Korea and intensified after the Manchu invasions of 1627 and 1636. By documenting this phenomenon, JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of nation to the imported ideologies of modern colonialism. She instead elevates the formative role of the conflicts that defined the second half of the Chosôn Dynasty, which had transfigured the geopolitics of East Asia and introduced a national narrative key to Korea's survival. Re-creating the cultural and political passions that bound Chosôn society together during this period, Haboush reclaims the root story of solidarity that helped Korea thrive well into the modern era.
In the Service of His Korean Majesty
Author: Wayne Patterson
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies University of California - B
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 9, Number 1 (2004)
Author: John Duncan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004-11-19
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1442234822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe University of Washington-Korea Studies Program, in collaboration with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, is proud to publish the Journal of Korean Studies. In 1979 Dr. James Palais (PhD Harvard 1968), former UW professor of Korean History edited and published the first volume of the Journal of Korean Studies. For thirteen years it was a leading academic forum for innovative, in-depth research on Korea. In 2004 former editors Gi-Wook Shin and John Duncan revived this outstanding publication at Stanford University. In August 2008 editorial responsibility transferred back to the University of Washington. With the editorial guidance of Clark Sorensen and Donald Baker, the Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) continues to be dedicated to publishing outstanding articles, from all disciplines, on a broad range of historical and contemporary topics concerning Korea. In addition the JKS publishes reviews of the latest Korea-related books. To subscribe to the Journal of Korean Studies or order print back issues, please click here.
Foreign Affairs Research Papers Available
Author: Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 364
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