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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.
List of contents
Chapter 1: From Supply Lines to Supply Chains: Busan, the Korean War, and the Rise of Global Logistics
By Patrick Chung
Chapter 2: From Dependency to Self-Sufficiency: American Relief Food in the Korean Peripheries in the 1960s
By Dajeong Chung
Chapter 3: "The Carter Zeal" versus "The Carter Chill:" U.S. Policy towards the Korean Peninsula in the Carter Era
By Khue Dieu Do
Chapter 4: Armed with Notebooks and Pencils: North and South Korean Students at the Tehran Foreign School, 1983
By Benjamin R. Young
Chapter 5: North Korea's Changing Policy Toward the United Nations
By Jie Dong
Chapter 6: Explaining Economic Order in North Korea
By Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Chapter 7 Multiculturalism as State Developmental Policy in Global Korea
By Darcie Draudt
Chapter 8 Democratic Support and Generational Change in South Korea
By Steven Denney
About the author
Gregg A. Brazinsky is professor of history and international affairs at The George Washington University.
