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The evolution of the South Korea-US alliance
\"In contrast to previous studies of the South Korea-U.S. alliance, Uk Heo and Terence Roehrig analyze the bigger picture, including the history, economics, security, alliance structure, politics, and the future of the alliance. Taking alliance theory as a starting point, the authors argue that the alliance provides an ideal case study to examine how the political development and economic growth of junior partners impact an alliance. As South Korea's capabilities and ambitions have grown, the alliance has evolved from an asymmetric regional security relationship to an economic partnership with global interests, while China's rise and North Korea's nuclear development mean that South Korea remains of strategic importance for American interests in East Asia. This book will be read both as a major contribution to Korean studies and the study of alliance politics and theory\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Korean Endgame
Nearly half a century after the fighting stopped, the 1953 Armistice has yet to be replaced with a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War. While Russia and China withdrew the last of their forces in 1958, the United States maintains 37,000 troops in South Korea and is pledged to defend it with nuclear weapons. In Korean Endgame, Selig Harrison mounts the first authoritative challenge to this long-standing U.S. policy. Harrison shows why North Korea is not--as many policymakers expect--about to collapse. And he explains why existing U.S. policies hamper North-South reconciliation and reunification. Assessing North Korean capabilities and the motivations that have led to its forward deployments, he spells out the arms control concessions by North Korea, South Korea, and the United States necessary to ease the dangers of confrontation, centering on reciprocal U.S. force redeployments and U.S. withdrawals in return for North Korean pullbacks from the thirty-eighth parallel.
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The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed
Not since Pearl Harbor has an American president gone to Congress to request a declaration of war. Nevertheless, since then, one president after another, from Truman to Obama, has ordered American troops into wars all over the world. From Korea to Vietnam, Panama to Grenada, Lebanon to Bosnia, Afghanistan to Iraq-why have presidents sidestepped declarations of war? Marvin Kalb, former chief diplomatic correspondent for CBS and NBC News, explores this key question in his thirteenth book about the presidency and U.S. foreign policy.
Instead of a declaration of war, presidents have justified their war-making powers by citing \"commitments,\" private and public, made by former presidents. Many of these commitments have been honored, but some betrayed. Surprisingly, given the tight U.S.-Israeli relationship, Israeli leaders feel that at times they have been betrayed by American presidents. Is it time for a negotiated defense treaty between the United States and Israel as a way of substituting for a string of secret presidential commitments?
From Israel to Vietnam, presidential commitments have proven to be tricky and dangerous. For example, one president after another committed the United States to the defense of South Vietnam, often without explanation. Over the years, these commitments mushroomed into national policy, leading to a war costing 58,000 American lives. Few in Congress or the media chose to question the war's provenance or legitimacy, until it was too late. No president saw the need for a declaration of war, considering one to be old-fashioned.
The word of a president can morph into a national commitment. It can become the functional equivalent of a declaration of war. Therefore, whenever a president \"commits\"the United States to a policy or course of action with, or increasingly without, congressional approval, watch out-the White House may be setting the nation on a road toward war.
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To save the children of Korea : the Cold War origins of international adoption
To Save the Children of Korea is the first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice in the United States, we know very little about how or why it began, or how or why it developed into the practice that we see today.
Arissa Oh argues that international adoption began in the aftermath of the Korean War. First established as an emergency measure through which to evacuate mixed-race \"GI babies,\" it became a mechanism through which the Korean government exported its unwanted children: the poor, the disabled, or those lacking Korean fathers. Focusing on the legal, social, and political systems at work, this book shows how the growth of Korean adoption from the 1950s to the 1980s occurred within the context of the neocolonial U.S.-Korea relationship, and was facilitated by crucial congruencies in American and Korean racial thought, government policies, and nationalisms. It also argues that the international adoption industry played an important but unappreciated part in the so-called Korean \"economic miracle.\"
Korean adoption served as a kind of template as international adoption began, in the late 1960s, to expand to new sending and receiving countries. Ultimately, Oh demonstrates that although Korea was not the first place that Americans adopted from internationally, it was the place where organized, systematic international adoption was born.
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One alliance, two lenses : U.S.-Korea relations in a new era
One Alliance, Two Lenses examines U.S.-Korea relations in a short but dramatic period (1992–2003) that witnessed the end of the Cold War, South Korea's full democratization, inter-Korean engagement, two nuclear crises, and the start of the U.S. war on terror. These events have led to a new era of challenges and opportunities for U.S.-South Korea (ROK) relations.
Based on analysis of newly collected data from major American and Korean newspapers, this book argues that the two allies have developed different lenses through which they view their relationship. Shin argues that U.S.-ROK relations, linked to the issue of national identity for Koreans, are largely treated as a matter of policy for Americans—a difference stemming from each nation's relative power and role in the international system.
Offering rich empirical data and analysis of a critically important bilateral relationship, Shin also presents policy suggestions to improve a relationship, which—after 50 years—has come under more sustained and serious criticism than ever before.
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Korean Attitudes Toward the United States: Changing Dynamics
This is the first book-length work in English dealing with the crucial and troubled relationship between Korea and the United States. Leading scholars in the field examine the various historical, political, cultural, and psychological aspects of Korean-American relations in the context of American global and East Asian relationships, especially with Japan.
Foreword, Robert L. Gallucci; Introduction; Anti-American Sentiment in the Korean Context, David I. Steinberg; Part I. Global, Regional, and Comparative Perspectives; 1. Anti-Americanism in the Age of American Unipolarity, G. John Ikenberry; 2. Pacific Co-Prosperity? The San Francisco System and Its Implications in Comparative Perspective, Kent E. Calder; 3. Anti-Americanism in Japan, Brad Glosserman; 4. A Japanese Perspective on Anti-Americanism, Yoichi Funabashi; 5. Unilateralism and Its Discontents: The Passing of the Cold War Alliance and Changing Public Opinion in the Republic of Korea, Meredith Woo-Cumings; 6. Anti-Americanism in Korea and Germany: Comparative Perspectives, Ronald Meinardus; Part II. Structural and Strategic Phenomena; 7. The Structural Basis of \"Anti-Americanism\" in the Republic of Korea, Bruce Cumings; 8. Anti-Americanism and the United States Role in Inter-Korean Relations, Victor D. Cha; 9. Between banmi (Anti-Americanism) and sungmi (Worship of the U.S.): Dynamics of Changing U.S. Images in South Korea, Chung-in Moon; Part III. Alliance Perspectives; 10. Revamping the Korean-American Alliance: New Political Forces, Paradigms, and Roles and Missions, Chung Min Lee; 11. Brothers vs. Friends: Inter-Korean Reconciliation and Emerging Anti-Americanism in South Korea, Kim Sung-han; 12. The U.S.-Korean Status of Forces Agreement as a Source of Continuing Korean Anti-American Attitudes, James V. Feinerman; 13. Anti-Americanism, Korean Style, Hahm Chaibong; IV. Civil Society Perspectives; 14. Citizen Power in Korean-American Relations, Katharine H.S. Moon; 15. Perception of American People, Society, and Influence: Psychological, Social, and Cultural Analysis of Anti-American Sentiments in South Korea, Uichol Kim with Young-Shin Park; 16. Changing Perceptions in U.S.-Korean Relations, and the Rise of Anti-Americanism, William Watts; 17. The Tipping Point: Kwangju, May 1980, William M. Drennan; 18. Anti-Americanism or Anti-Baseism: U.S.-South Korean Relations Through Changing Generations, Brent (won-ki) Choi; 19. Industry and National Identity: Globalizing Korean Auto Manufacture, Dennis L. McNamara; Conclusion; Anti-American Sentiment in Korea and Its Importance: A Guide for the Perplexed? David I. Steinberg
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