South Korea''s Grand Strategy - Making Its Own Destiny

Ramon Pacheco Pardo provides a groundbreaking analysis of South Korea's foreign policy from its transition to democracy in the late 1980s through the present day, arguing that the country's approach to the world constitutes a grand strategy.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Grand Strategy of Middle Powers
2. Historical Background, 1948-1987
3. South Korea's Grand Strategy: Factors, Ends, and Means
4. Triangular Core: Inter-Korean Relations, the U.S. Alliance, and China's Rise
5. East Asia: Regionalism and Regionalization
6. Greater Eurasia and the Indian Ocean
7. The Rest of the World and Global Governance
Conclusion: The Past, Present, and Future of South Korea's Grand Strategy
Notes
Index

About the author

Ramon Pacheco Pardo is Professor of International Relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance. His books include Korea: A New History of South and North (with Victor D. Cha) and Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop.

Summary

Ramon Pacheco Pardo provides a groundbreaking analysis of South Korea’s foreign policy from its transition to democracy in the late 1980s through the present day, arguing that the country’s approach to the world constitutes a grand strategy.

Product details

• Authors: Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Pardo Ramon Pacheco
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.10.2023
• EAN: 9780231203234
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20323-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Contemporary Asia in the World
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Science, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy, International Relations, Politics & government, Warfare and defence, Central / national / federal government policies