South Korea at the crossroads
Subtitle: autonomy and alliance in an era of rival powers
By: Scott A. Snyder
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780231185486
Subjects: Foreign relations
Description: Against the backdrop of China's mounting influence and North Korea's growing nuclear capability, South Korea is a rising middle power and faces a set of strategic choices that will shape its economic prospects and national security. Snyder examines fifty years of South Korean foreign policy and recommends balancing autonomy with a robust alliance with the United States.
Notes: "A Council on Foreign Relations book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: South Korean strategic choices; title: Strategic choices under authoritarian rule; title: Roh Tae-Woo : Nordpolitik and democratization; title: Kim Dae-Jung and the sunshine policy; title: Roh Moo-Hyun's balancer policy; title: Lee Myung-Bak's global Korea policy; title: Park Geun-Hye's Asian paradox; title: The paradox of South Korea's middle-power status; title: Korea between the United States and China; title: Unification and Korean strategic choices; title: Epilogue : South Korean strategic choices and the U.S.-ROK alliance; title: Select source documents: 1953 mutual defense treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea; title: 1972 North-South joint communique between the two Koreas; title: 1991 agreement on reconciliation, non-aggression, and exchanges and cooperation between South and North Korea; title: 2000 June 15th North-South joint declaration; title: 2007 October North-South joint declaration; title: 2009 statement on joint vision for the alliance of the United States of America and the Republic of Korea; title: 2013 joint declaration in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the alliance; title: Between the Republic of Korea and the United States of America; title: Chronology of important events in South Korean strategic history.