Grand Strategy for Korean Diplomacy in the 21st Century

"The 21st century is an era of transformation. The political forces that properly recognize and act upon the meaning of the new century will play the leading role in history, while those that fail to do so will be pushed off the stage. From the Foreword"

The East Asia Institute (EAI) National Security Panel (Chair: Ha Young-sun, EAI Director) has published its first monograph, EAI Diplomacy and Security Series Vol. 1, [Grand Strategy for Korean Diplomacy in the 21st Century: Building a Networked State].

This book starts from the premise that to understand Korea's diplomatic and security realities and to establish a grand strategy for the 21st century, a perspective that holistically views the temporal axis of past-present-future and the spatial axis of global-East Asia-Korean Peninsula-domestic is necessary. Through this book, EAI aims to emphasize the need to understand the diplomatic strategies of major East Asian countries surrounding Korea as we enter the transformative 21st century, and to establish a grand strategy for Korean diplomacy in the 21st century from a long-term perspective.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Redrawing the East Asian Strategic Map: International Politics of National Interest, Identity, and Power | Ha Young-sun & Kim Byung-kook

Part I Transforming East Asia: National Transformation Strategies

Chapter 1 Global Strategy and Alliance Networks of US Military Transformation | Lee Sang-hyun

Chapter 2 US Strategy in the Asia-Pacific: Change and Continuity | Kim Sung-han

Chapter 3 US Security Strategy Through the 2004 US Presidential Election | Jang Hoon

Chapter 4 China's Foreign Strategy in the 21st Century and Korea's Strategic Choices | Lee Tae-hwan

Chapter 5 Japan's Security Choices and Korea's Path | Park Chul-hee

Part II Korea's Grand National Strategy in the 21st Century

Chapter 6 The North Korean Nuclear Issue and the Six-Party Talks: Assessment and Prospects | Ha Young-sun & Jeon Jae-sung

Chapter 7 Relocation of US Forces in Korea and the Concept of Korea's New Security Strategy | Han Yong-sup

Chapter 8 North Korean Regime Crisis and Korea's North Korea Policy | Shin Sung-ho

Chapter 9 Dispatch of Troops to Iraq and National Interest | Kim Sung-han

Chapter 10 Northeast Asian Economic Cooperation and Korea's FTA Strategy: Evaluation of the Participatory Government's FTA Policy | Chung Jin-young

Conclusion

The Task of Building a Networked State in the 21st Century | Ha Young-sun

Appendix

1. List of Key Materials by Issue from the National Security Panel (URLs)

2. Chronology of the North Korean Nuclear Issue

3. Chronology of the Transformation of US Forces in Korea

4. Chronology of Troop Dispatch to Iraq

5. Glossary of Key Terms

Authors (in alphabetical order)

Kim Byung-kook(金炳局)

Graduated from the Department of Economics, Seoul National University. Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. Former member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Policy Planning. Former Ralph I. Straus Visiting Professor at Harvard Kennedy School. Currently Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University. Director of EAI. Associate Editor of Journal of East Asian Studies. Major works include "Dynamics of Division and Revolution," "State, Region, and International System: Change and Permanence," Consolidating Democracy in South Korea, Between Compliance and Conflict: East Asia, Latin America, and the "New" Pax Americana (co-editor).

Kim Sung-han(金聖翰)

Graduated from Korea University with a major in English Literature. Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Served as a consultant for the National Security Council (NSC) and the Ministry of National Defense. Currently a professor at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security. Major publications include "The Theory and Practice of American Foreign Policy" (co-authored), "East Asian Environmental Security" (co-edited), "American Global Strategy and the Korean Peninsula," and "The End of Humanitarian Intervention?".

Park Chul-hee(朴喆熙)

Graduated from Seoul National University with a major in Political Science. Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. Served as an Assistant Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan. Previously an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security. Currently a professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. Major publications include "How Japanese Diet Members Are Made," and translated works such as "Japan's National Strategy in the 21st Century" and "Japan's Shifting Party Politics."

Shin Sung-ho(辛星昊)

Graduated from Seoul National University with a major in International Relations. Ph.D. in International Politics from the Fletcher School, Tufts University. Served as a researcher at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) and the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA). Currently a professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. Major publications include "Preempting Proliferation of WMD: Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and its Challenges," "Japan-South Korea Relations: Slowly Lifting the Burden of History?," and "Grudging Partner: South Korea."

Lee Sang-hyun(李相賢)

Graduated from Seoul National University with a major in International Relations. Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Served as a researcher at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) and the Sejong Institute. Currently the Head of the Security Research Division at the Sejong Institute. Major publications include "Korea's National Strategy 2020: Diplomacy and Security" (editor), "The ROK-U.S. Alliance and the Korean Peninsula Peace Regime," "Cooperative Threat Reduction Strategy for Resolving North Korea's WMD Problem," and "A New U.S. Global Defense Posture and the Future of Korea-U.S. Alliance."

Lee Tae-hwan(李泰桓)

Graduated from Seoul National University with a major in International Relations. Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Southern California. Served as a visiting scholar at Peking University and the China Foreign Affairs University. Previously a visiting researcher at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations. Currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Sejong Institute. Major publications include "Sino-U.S. Relations and the Korean Peninsula," "North Korea and Northeast Asia," "Politics of Energy Policy in Post-Mao China," "Political Reform and Democratization in China," "Globalization and China," "The New International Order and China," and "China and North Korea Relations."

Jang Hoon(張 勳)

Graduated from Seoul National University with a major in Political Science. Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. Previously a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Hallym University. Currently a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Chung-Ang University. Major publications include "Cooperation Experiences in Europe and Asia" (editor), "Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance" (co-authored with Jang Hoon et al.), and the translated work "Social Capital and Democracy."

Jeon Jae-sung(全在晟)

Graduated from Seoul National University with a major in International Relations. Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. Previously a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Sookmyung Women's University. Currently a professor in the Department of International Relations at Seoul National University. Major publications include "Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Realist International Political Thought," "A Preliminary Study for Realist International Institutionalism," and "U.S. Policy Toward South Korea During the 1965 Normalization of Relations Between Korea and Japan and the Vietnam War Deployment."

Chung Jin-young(鄭璡永)

Graduated from Seoul National University with a major in Political Science. Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Served as a researcher at the Korea Development Institute (KDI) and the Sejong Institute. Currently a professor in the School of International Studies at Kyung Hee University. Major publications include "The Political Economy of Market Opening, Structural Adjustment, and Social Compensation: The Case of Korean Trade Politics," "Globalization, Regionalization, and Korea's Response: Beyond the Developmental State and Mercantilist Model," and "The Foreign Exchange and Financial Crisis and the Future of East Asian Development: Focusing on Debates Surrounding Development Models, Structural Adjustment, and Regional Cooperation."

Ha Young-sun(河英善)

Graduated from Seoul National University with a major in International Relations. Ph.D. in International Politics from the University of Washington. Currently a professor in the Department of International Relations at Seoul National University. Chairman of EAI's Global Net 21. Major publications include "Internationalization and Globalization: Korea, China, and Japan," "Global Politics in Cyberspace," "Peace Studies in the 21st Century," "A Centennial Plan for the Korean Peninsula in the 21st Century," and "Seeing the Changing World Clearly."

Han Yong-sup (Han Yong-sup)

Graduated from Seoul National University, Department of Political Science. Ph.D. in Security Policy from RAND Graduate School. Served as Policy Advisor to the Minister of National Defense. Former Research Fellow at the RAND Corporation. Currently Director of the Institute for Security and National Strategy at the National Defense University. Major publications include "Peace and Arms Control on the Korean Peninsula," "Autonomy or Alliance?," and "East Asian Security Community."

Jeong Han-wool (Chung Han-wool)

Graduated from Korea University, Department of Spanish Language and Literature. Currently a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and International Relations at Korea University. Senior Fellow at EAI. Major publications include "Fluctuating Anti-Americanism and the Korea-US Alliance," "Transformation of Alliances and Korean Perceptions of the U.S.," and "Analysis of Regional Voting Dissolution through Defection Voting."

Kim Soo-jin (Kim Soo-jin)

Graduated from Ewha Womans University, Department of Political Science and International Relations. Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Diplomacy and Security at the Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University. Currently serves as the Secretariat for the EAI National Security Panel (NSP).

For the convenience of our readers, we are releasing parts of the manuscript of this monograph.