South Korea’s international environment and foreign policy

1994 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
South Korea ◽  
International Environment

scholarly journals Small States and the Struggle for Power in the Arctic Region: A Case Study of Denmark

Politologija ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-108
Author(s):  
Gabija Lukšaitė
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Small States ◽  
Small State ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
International Environment ◽  
Foreign Policy Strategies ◽  
The Arctic Region

This paper examines the specifics of foreign policy strategies used by Denmark as a small state in the Arctic region. Based upon a number of theoretical approaches in terms of analyzing small state foreign policy, this study is primarily focused on how small states manage to pursue their goals in an international environment typically dominated by large powers.

Seoul’s next leader will be a non-centrist outsider

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Content Type

Significance Neither is from their party’s mainstream, and has never been elected as a lawmaker. The conservative, Yoon Seok-youl, is a former prosecutor general. The liberal, Lee Jae-myung, was a provincial governor until late October. Whoever wins will succeed Moon Jae-in on May 9 for a single five-year term, until 2027. Impacts Even if Yoon wins, the liberals will control the legislature until at least April 2024 and will do their best to block his initiatives. The election will be fought mainly on domestic issues; if foreign policy becomes salient, this will benefit the pro-US, Japan-friendly Yoon. Lee's universal basic income proposal would make South Korea the first major economy to adopt such a policy.

7. America in the 1990s: searching for purpose

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Dumbrell
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
External Environment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
First Year ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
International Environment ◽  
The Us ◽  
Internal Pressures

This chapter examines how the external environment of US foreign policy and internal pressures on policy makers both shifted radically in the 1990s. Internationally, the ‘long 1990s’ were characterized by intense democratic possibility. Yet they were also years of atavistic negativity and irrationality, as seen in Rwanda and Bosnia. Two questions arise: First, how should the United States respond to a world which was apparently both rapidly integrating and rapidly disintegrating? Second, was it inevitable, desirable, or even possible that the US should provide global leadership? Before discussing various approaches to these questions, the chapter considers the wider international environment of apparent unipolarity and globalization. It also analyzes the development of American foreign policy under presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, focusing in particular on the so-called ‘Kennan sweepstakes’ during the first year of Clinton’s presidency as well as Clinton’s turn towards unilateralism and remilitarization.

The foreign policy systems of North and South Korea

1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-339
Author(s):  
C. S. Burchill
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Policy Systems ◽  
North And South

Between Balancing and Bandwagoning: South Korea's Response to China

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Kang
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Rising Powers ◽  
Policy Orientation ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Military Threat ◽  
China's Rise ◽  
Material Power

Why has South Korea accommodated China, instead of fearing its growth and balancing against it? This article makes two central arguments. First, concepts of balancing and bandwagoning are fundamentally difficult to test, and to the extent that the theory can be tested, it appears to be wrong in the case of South Korea. In fact, we observe many cases in which rising powers are neither balanced nor “bandwagoned” but are simply accommodated with no fundamental change either way in military stance or alignment posture. Second, the factors that explain South Korean foreign policy orientation toward China are as much about interests as they are about material power. South Korea sees substantially more economic opportunity than military threat associated with China's rise; but even more importantly, South Korea evaluates China's goals as not directly threatening.

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