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A Study On The Establishment Of North East Asian Security Cooperation System

Posted on:2008-05-30Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:S G YuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360212990594Subject:Subject community and the international communist movement
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In Northeast Asian regional order, a Multilateral Security Cooperation System (hereafter, MSC) has not been institutionalized. The institutional vacuum is caused by the historical hostilities and mutual distrust among the intra-regional nation-states, which are more aggravated than those of other intra-regional sovereign states in international political order.However, there has been more gradual increase on the necessity to make a collaborative discussion as the topic is more challenging research agenda. The intra-Northeast Asian regional stability, coexistence and co-prosperity require the regional hub states to do persistent discussion and habitual dialogues. From the point of view, this study deals with the perspective and intention of South Korea, one of the six regional hub nation-states, in relation to the establishment of the multilateral security cooperation system.The dissertation argues that South Korea positively consult the historical lessons from the precedent MSC examples, such as OSCE, ARF and NEACD in order to set up the regional MSC system. Furthermore, the research also proposes that South Korea institute and pursuit a 'Birds Foreign Policy Strategy' in which the nation-states recommends the East Asian regional counterparts to refer to the new diplomacy strategy for the establishment of the multilateral security cooperation system's institutionalization.The 'Birds Foreign Policy Strategy,' a new strategy for South Korean diplomacy grand plan, signifies a balanced, ambivalent diplomacy as one bird flies with the balance of the two wings. In other words, as birds fly with their two wings in balance, The nation should take a practically two-tracked diplomacy between marine and continental powers in the international regional order.The primary tactics, for the practice of the new foreign strategy, is that South Korea should take a detached analysis on the biased and unilateral national strategy for the United States. That is to say, South Korea should go out of the Cold War-ridden international political orbit and take a balanced posture between neighboring powers such as China and Russia. Thus, the existing South Korea-American alliance is required to reset in accordance with regionally changing international order.In conjunction with the South Korea-American alliance, the study elucidates the intra-Northeast Asian changing regional security environment surrounding the Korean peninsula in comparison with that of the regional security environment in 1950s. China has made a diplomatic relation with Japan. In addition, South Korea has also made a normalization of the foreign relationship with China and Russia. Namely, there has been a distinguished regional power struggle map from the 1950s' regional order in which the regional powers tried to map out the international order in conformity with an ideological standpoint.The study proposes that the re-institutionalization of the South Korea-American alliance is an indispensable task for South Korea. The possible re-institutionalized regime exactly applies to the America-Japan alliance system. Against the re-institutionalized necessity corresponding to the changing Northeast Asian regional order, the United States and Japan has been indulged in the Cold War Mentality, the actual examples of which are the violation of international law such as the United Nation Chart Article 1 and America-Japan Alliance Treaty Article 1. The anachronism finally leads to the aggravation of antagonistic and conflicting order in the region. Put simply, the obsolete regional order is to be antagonistic against China and North Korea by employing the conventional tri-angle security cooperation system. By extension, the two marine powers; the United States and Japan, pressure South Korea to abide by the tri-angle alliance security system. The marine forces' posture is an anachronism against balanced re-institutionalized regional security cooperation system. The dissertation portrays that South Korea step back from the retrogressive regional order. In relevance to the revision of South Korea-American security alliance system, South Korea is required to take a positive examination on multi-lateral security cooperation system in links with the traditional bilateral security alliance system. That is to say, the study suggests that there be a tri-lateralism, in which South Korea, China and the United States is formed as one security cooperation system. In the new alliance system South Korea becomes a middle power to intermediate between China and the United States. On the ground of the coordination, South Korea pursues.
Keywords/Search Tags:National interest, Northeast Asian region, Multilateral security cooperation system, South Korea-American security alliance
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