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Scott A. Snyder provides an authoritative overview of the internal and external pressures on the U.S.-South Korea alliance and explores its future prospects.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. The U.S.–South Korean Alliance Under Trump and Moon and South Korean Domestic Challenges
1. The Threat to the U.S.–South Korea Alliance from Within
2. The Influence of the Trump and Moon Administrations on U.S.–South Korean Alliance Management
3. Political Polarization Under the Moon Jae-in Administration
4. South Korean Progressive Foreign Policy and Tensions in the U.S.–South Korea Alliance
Part II. External Threats to the Alliance
5. North Korean Infiltration and Influence Operations
6. South Korea’s Orientation and China’s Rise
7. U.S.–China Technology Competition vs. China–South Korea Economic Interdependence
Part III. Credibility of American Alliance Commitments and the Implications of Alliance Breakdown
8. The Credibility of the American Alliance Commitment
9. Imagining U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Asia Absent the U.S.–South Korea Alliance
10. Imagining South Korean Foreign Policy Absent the U.S.–South Korea Alliance
11. Sustaining U.S.–South Korea Alliance Contributions to International Security
Notes
Index
About the author
Scott A. Snyder is senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.–Korea policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers (Columbia, 2018), coauthor of The Japan–South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States (Columbia, 2015), and coeditor of North Korean Foreign Policy: The Kim Jong-Un Regime in a Hostile World (2023).
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Scott A. Snyder provides an authoritative overview of the internal and external pressures on the U.S.–South Korea alliance and explores its future prospects.
