The US–South Korea alliance: How the patron benefits from the protégé

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-117
Author(s):  
Sojeong Lee ◽  
Brandon Prins ◽  
Krista E. Wiegand
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
South Korea ◽  
National Security ◽  
World War ◽  
Us South ◽  
Military Alliance ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Troop Deployment ◽  
Political Economic

Since the end of World War II, the US military has continuously deployed troops to South Korea. The alliance works as an asymmetrical alliance, where the US is a patron and South Korea is a protégé. While it is argued that this deployment has significant political, economic, and military effects on South Korea and the region, few studies have examined how the presence of US forces there enhances US military and economic power as well as national security interests. In this paper, we examine the costs and benefits of the US–South Korea alliance, specifically focusing on US troop deployment on the Korean Peninsula. In particular, we argue that the US military alliance with South Korea has significant benefits to both partners, but particularly for the sake of US national security interests. In this sense, the protégé state provides significant benefits to the patron state. We discuss the strategic importance of South Korea in US foreign policy in the region and emphasize the benefits of the US–South Korea alliance at the various levels.

Science with a Vengeance: How the US Military Created the US Space Sciences after World War II

Physics Today ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 77-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H. DeVorkin ◽  
Bruce Hevly
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Space Sciences

Undermining the Consensus-Building and List-Based Standards in Export Controls: What the US Export Controls Act Means to the Global Export Control Regime

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-599
Author(s):  
Cindy Whang
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Security ◽  
Export Control ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
World War ◽  
Export Controls ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Control Regime

ABSTRACT On 13 August 2018, US President Donald Trump signed a legislation called the ‘Export Controls Act of 2018’ (ECA) that is important for reinvigorating the export control regime in the USA. This paper argues that contents of the ECA will not only impact the USA but also the way that the ECA is structured will potentially have a long-lasting influence on international export control regimes and the role that export controls play in international trade. International export control regimes were established post-World War II as a trade measure to pursue common strategic and national security goals among allied countries. Due to the sensitive nature of national security issues, international export control agreements were structured as non-binding agreements that heavily relied on the consensus of participating countries in formulating export control lists that the participating countries could then adopt in their domestic regulations. The cohesiveness of the global export control regimes has been based on the cornerstones of the consensus-building and list-based standards. The USA established its export control regimes to complement these international export control regimes and has been a strong proponent of requesting countries to adopt the international export control lists into domestic regulations. With the passage of the ECA, the infusion of economic policy considerations such as maintaining the USA’s technological leadership through adding a category of emerging and foundational technology has changed the long-standing export control narrative. Through the changes made to the US ECA, the scope of national security subject to export control regimes has expanded from being focused on military-oriented goods and technology into one that now includes commercial technology. While the changes made through the ECA serve to protect the USA’s technological interests, the statute could also undermine important elements of the global export control regime that the international community has established in the past seventy years post-World War II.

Prologue

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Andrew Marble
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
First Time

Set in April 1945, Pappenheim, Germany, in the closing days of World War II, the prologue tells the dramatic tale of the first time John Shalikashvili—then a young penniless, stateless war refugee—first laid eyes on the US military, his first ever meeting with any Americans. It both introduces the theme of the importance his European past plays in his life and sets the low point of his against-the-odds success story.

Bridging the ‘Open Water’ in the US-South Korea Military Alliance

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-176
Author(s):  
Gregory F. Treverton ◽  
Eric Larson ◽  
Spencer H. Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Open Water ◽  
Us South ◽  
Military Alliance ◽  
The Us

The Boundaries of Blackness

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-208
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Guglielmo
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
American Indian ◽  
White Men ◽  
Racial Classification ◽  
World War ◽  
Colored People ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Descent Group

Chapter 5 examines struggles over inductees’ “proper” racial classification and placement in the segregated World War II–era US military. In millions of cases, classification was routine and uncontroversial. But in hundreds of cases—involving people who identified as everything from American Indian to Moorish American to white—men challenged their official race classification, or their placement in the segregated military, or both. The most heated and consequential of these challenges revolved around the meaning and membership of “colored” (a synonym for “Negro” or black)—not white. “Colored” people were by far the most thoroughly segregated and subjugated descent group in the US military, which meant that their race classification involved not just classification itself, but also assignment to “colored” outfits. Since membership in these outfits carried so many acute disadvantages, the stakes related to the “colored” category were unquestionably highest.

“Dohnányi was not—and could not have possibly been—a war criminal” the Hungarian defense of Ernő Dohnányi, 1945–1949

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-317
Author(s):  
James Grymes
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Franz Liszt ◽  
Director General ◽  
Military Government ◽  
World War ◽  
Zoltan Kodaly ◽  
Us Military ◽  
War Criminals ◽  
The Us

In the years following World War II, Ernő Dohnányi was falsely accused of being a war criminal. Although scholars have assumed that this smear campaign was the result of a conspiracy by the entire Hungarian musical community, this widely accepted belief overlooks a number of prominent Hungarian musicians who consistently came to Dohnányi’s defense. In 1945, Zoltán Kodály led a delegation of musicians from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music who convinced the Hungarian Minister of Justice to remove Dohnányi’s name from an unofficial list of war criminals. In the following year, Kodály and Ede Zathureczky, who had succeeded Dohnányi as the Director General of the Liszt Academy, wrote letters to the US military government in support of Dohnányi’s rehabilitation. Finally, in 1949, Zathureczky obtained confirmation from the Ministry of Justice that the investigation of Dohnányi had been terminated—a message that Kodály himself communicated to Dohnányi. Drawing on documents from the Liszt Academy archives and the Dohnányi estate, this article chronicles the previously unknown Hungarian defense of Ernő Dohnányi.

Boy on the Bridge

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Marble
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Parental Influence ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Clinton Administration ◽  
World War ◽  
Joint Chiefs Of Staff ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Nature Vs Nurture

John Shalikashvili: From Boy on the Bridge to Top American General tells the captivating tale of how John Shalikashvili, a penniless, stateless World War II refugee achieved the American dream by being appointed the thirteenth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking officer in the US military, during the Clinton administration. Through a gripping narrative covering his wartime upbringing, aristocratic family background, parental influence, immigrant experience, and betrayals by loved ones—particularly by his high school girlfriend and by his father’s affiliation with the Waffen-SS, which came to light during Shalikashvili’s confirmation process—the biography explores the themes of nature vs. nurture and the role of agency vs. luck (i.e., the influence of his own actions vs. factors beyond his control) in determining Shalikashvili’s character, leadership abilities, and career success.

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