Publications

• Book

  The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula: An Emerging Security Architecture

  • Editor : Shin-wha Lee, Jagannath Panda
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Date : August 18, 2023
  • ISBN : 9781032460680

  The United Nations, Indo-Pacific, and Korean Peninsula focus on the U.N. and the U.N. system to look at the politics of the world’s most politically sensitive and important regions, including the Korean Peninsula and the Indo-Pacific region, at geopolitical and geopolitical levels.

  This paper aims to provide answers to comprehensive questions related to the emerging global peace structure, which consists of parts from the world, including the global dimension, the Indo-Pacific region, and the Korean Peninsula. The first part on the global dimension analyzes the competing worldviews of the United States, China, Japan, and Korea, and examines the transition of discussions at the United Nations on global and regional security, especially in the Indo-Pacific region and the Korean Peninsula. The second part on the Indo-Pacific region, which follows these themes, analyzes bilateral or multilateral security issues facing regional countries and analyzes discussions at the United Nations on these issues. Specifically, the chapters in the second part look at the impact of new changes in the region, such as the expansion of the Quad and G7 between Australia, India, Japan and the United States, on the politics of great powers within the Indo-Pacific region. Finally, the third part on the Korean Peninsula focuses on UN-centered discussions on inter-Korean relations and analyzes the consequent global or regional implications.

  Introduction: Can the Declining Relevance of the UN be Reinvigorated? Factoring the Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula by Shin-wha Lee and Jagannath Panda

  Part-I: The UN and Competing Worldviews
  1. US-China Strategic Competition in UN Multilateral Frameworks: Building Order or Inviting Conflict? by Jae Jeok Park and Shin-wha Lee
  2. The United Nations in Korea: US Views of Once and Future Roles by Mark Tokola
  3. Legitimacy, Power and Order-Building in the Indo-Pacific: China, the UN, and Managing the North Korean Nuclear Challenge by Jindong Yuan
  4. Role of the United Nations in Japanese Foreign Policy and Security Architecture by Kristi Govella
  5. The United Nations, Korean Foreign Policy and the Korean Peninsula, by Heung Soon Park

  Part-II: The UN and the Indo-Pacific Security Architecture
  6. China, UNCLOS and the Future of International Maritime Law in the South China Sea by Jeffrey Becker
  7. Opportunities for Consensus, Collaboration and Recalibration: UN and the Quad by Jagannath Panda
  8. Does Humanitarian Aid Save Civilian Lives in War?　The Case of UN Aid in Myanmar’s Civil War by Hyun Jin Choi and Taekyoon Kim
  9. The United Nations and the Curious Case of Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute by Priyanka Pandit

  Part-III: The UN, its Frameworks and Korean Peninsula
  10. Northeast Asian Peace Architecture and the UN by Matthew Abbott
  11. Change in the Security Environment and Transformation of the United Nations Command by Hanbyeol Sohn and Hanbeom Jeong
  12. The Past, Present and Future of SDGs Discussion on the Korean Peninsula: SDGs as a Framework for New Cooperation by Kyungyon Moon and Dong-ju Choi
  13. A Case Study on the Success and Failure of Weapons of Mass Destruction Nonproliferation Regimes: Focus on Chemical Weapons and Biological Weapons Conventions by Ki-Chul Park and Jaewoo Choo
  14. Improving State Reputation through the UN: The Case of North Korea by DongJoon Park and Kyung-joo Jeon

• Journal Article

  What Makes Swing Voters Participate in Protests? The Effects of Voting Patterns and Election Cycles on Participation in Candlelight Protests in South Korea (2023.06)

  • Author : Hyun-Jin Cha
  • Publication : Korea Observer
  • Publisher :  Institute of Korean Studies
  • Volume : 54(2)
  • Date : June 2023

  Abstract: This paper aims to analyze how the traits of candlelight protest participants have changed from 2004 to 2017 in South Korea. While previous studies have typically identified these traits of the candlelight protesters based on a single survey, this paper examines the change of protest participants using a multi-level analysis. This study argues that voter type and election cycles have a significant impact on an individual’s decision to participate in candlelight protests. To be specific, swing voters are less likely to participate in a candlelight protest when the next election is scheduled either too soon or too far. Core liberal voters with a high degree of motivation are more likely to take part in a candlelight protest when the distance from the next election is close, while core conservative voters with a low degree of motivation are not affected by the distance from the next election. This study contributes on both sub-fields, voting behaviors and contentious politics, by combining individuals’ voting patterns with political opportunity structures. Survey data (2004, 2010, 2017) conducted by the Korean Political Science Association (KPSA) and the Korean Social Science Data Center (KSSDC) provide empirical support for the arguments.

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• Journal Article

  From Balance of Terror to Balance of Prudence: A Theoretical Analysis for Nuclear Arms Control Between the U.S. and North Korea (2023.06)

  • Author : Inwook Kim, Seung Joon Paik
  • Publication : Korean Political Science Review
  • Publisher : The Korean Political Science Association
  • Volume : 57(2)
  • Date : June 2023

  The possibility of nuclear arms control with North Korea, which was previously deemed implausible and unacceptable, is gaining traction among analysts and policymakers. What is missing, however, is proper engagement with theories of nuclear arms control and studies about its relevance to asymmetric nuclear relationships. This paper seeks to fill this gap by first distinguishing between structural and operational arms control, elucidating their rationale, organizing principles, and expected outcomes. Second, because nuclear asymmetry defines and dominates the US-North Korea nuclear tension, structural nuclear arms control is practically impossible to design and politically too costly. On the other hand, nuclear asymmetry exacerbates crisis stability problem, and operational nuclear arms control can provide meaningful crisis management mechanisms with relatively acceptable cost.

   

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• Journal Article

  The American Success to Denuclearise South Korea: Global Bipolarity, Geographical Remoteness, and Nuclear Alliance Restraint (2023.04)

  • Author: Sunwoo Paek, Dong Sun Lee
  • Publication: Diplomacy & Statecraft
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Volume: 34(1)
  • Date: April 2023

  Abstract: This article explains the US curtailment of South Korean nuclear development by attributing this success primarily to the inducements President Ronald Reagan offered. These inducements were reliable because the US as a superpower operating under bipolarity, cared about its reputation as a trustworthy ally and was eager to provide inducements to its interest-sharing client. The inducements exposed Seoul to only a small risk of subordination, given the US’s position as a remote patron. By contrast, the sanctions Reagan’s predecessors threatened to impose were marginally effective, and could only delay Seoul’s nuclear pursuit because geographical remoteness gave them modest credibility.

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Peace Studies

Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring 2023)

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