1st Edition

South Korea’s Wild Ride The Big Shifts in Foreign Policy from 2013 to 2022

By Gilbert Rozman, Sue Mi Terry, Eun A Jo Copyright 2024
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

Rozman, Terry, and Jo analyze the geopolitical shifts in South Korea’s policies toward its neighbors and allies over the course of the Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in administrations into the early years of the Yoon Suk-yeol administration. 2013 to 2022 was a tumultuous decade in South Korean politics and especially in its foreign policy. Through two changes of its own presidency, as well as the... Read more

Introduction

Gilbert Rozman, Sue Mi Terry, and Eun A Jo

Part One: South Korea in the Hot Seat, 2013-2015

1. A Trustpolitik Approach to Denuclearization and Unification

Sue Mi Terry

2. Managing Four Great Powers

Gilbert Rozman

3. Remaking of Conservative Narratives

Eun A Jo

Part Two: South Korea’s High Stakes Diplomacy, 2016-2019

4. Great Hopes, Shattered Dreams

Sue Mi Terry

5. Gambling on Great Power Relations

Gilbert Rozman

6. Return of Progressive Narratives

Eun A Jo

Part Three: South Korea Sobers Up, 2020-2022

7. Shift to the New Missile Age: 2020-2022

Sue Mi Terry

8. Edging toward Bipolarity: South Korea’s Regional Reorientation, 2020-2022

Gilbert Rozman

9. Battling Partisan Narratives

Eun A Jo

Biography

Gilbert Rozman is Emeritus Musgrave Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, USA and Editor-in-Chief of the Asan Forum, South Korea.

Sue Mi Terry is Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington DC, USA.

Eun A Jo is a doctoral candidate at Cornell University and a fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University, USA.