South Korea-U.S. Relations in a New Era: Ideological and Structural Sources of Continuity and Change

• 발행기관: 한국학술연구원
• 저자명: Shale Horowitz
• 간행물 정보: 『Korea Observer』Vol 56, No 1, 51~75쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 정치외교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.03.31

국문 초록

Since the great trial of the Korean War, relations between South Korea and the United States have been shaped both by the currents of domestic ideology and politics and the evolving features of the international landscape. Recent decades have seen a South Korean debate between drawing closer to the U.S. or balancing more evenly between the U.S. and China, alongside a U.S. debate over remaining strongly engaged abroad or pulling back from international commitments. After the end of the Cold War, in a relatively non-threatening, permissive international environment, these approaches could be tried in various forms and combinations without fundamentally altering bilateral relations. In the New Era ushered in by Xi Jinping's China, South Korean and U.S. leaders must make starker, more binary choices between moving closer or farther apart. Moving closer makes more sense and looks more likely.

목차

Ⅰ. Competing Foreign Policy Ideologies in the ROK and the U.S.

Ⅱ. A Shifting Strategic Environment: From Deng's Reform and Opening Up to Xi's New Era

Ⅲ. New Era Security and Economic Relations under the Yoon and Biden Administrations

Ⅳ. Conclusions

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키워드

U.S.-South Korea relations U.S.-South Korea alliance Chinese foreign policy Korean and Indo-Pacific security Korean economic relations