Authors : Jae Hyeok Shin Journal : Government and Opposition Publisher : Cambridge University Press Volume : 52(3) Publication Date : July, 2017 Abstract : This article explores legislative voting behaviour in the regional party system where electoral competition is based primarily on geographic divisions instead of national public policies. An analysis of roll-call votes in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea from 2000 to 2008 reveals that in the regionalized context, legislative voting unity is high because legislators are disciplined to receive endorsement from their regional champion party. Those legislators are far more disciplined when voting on pork legislation. Nonetheless, as the socioeconomic status of constituents rises and the constituents thus care more about policy than pork, then opposition legislators tend to vote against their parties more often. Conversely, governing-party members are more disciplined to pass bills where voters often desire policy over pork. This study suggests a powerful interaction⋯

Author : Miyoun Baik Journal : Dongbuga Yeoksa Nonchong Publisher : Northeast Asian History Foundation Volume : 56 Publication Date : June, 2017 Abstract : This paper aims at constructing an alternative solidarity paradigm that can lead to the Northeast Asian cooperation and solidarity. For this purpose, this study starts with analyzing the specific solidarity values centering on the EU case as a transnational solidarity at the regional level. As a result of this analysis, I argue that the basic norms of existing solidarity-political, economic mutual benefit, cultural commonality-do not necessarily create sustainable solidarity. Furthermore, an alternative discourse of deliberative democracy, which is the deepening of institutional democracy, also has difficulties in providing motivation for a solidarity. Therefore, I propose a transnational justice paradigm as an alternative paradigm for constructing a realistic and sustainableNortheast Asian solidarity. The transnational justice paradigm ⑴ understands dominations and subordinations of various types and dimensions as injustices, based⋯

Author : Gyu Jeong Yee Journal : The Journal of Chinese Historical Researches Publisher : The Society for Chinese Historical Researches Volume : 108 Publication Date : June, 2017 Abstract : This study attempts to understand about the significances and applications of `IPR publications on the Pacific, 1925-1952` through the convergence between history and political science. The establishment and dissolution of IPR which was independent organization from the government is influenced by the changes of US foreign policy. The IPR was founded in the era of Willsonian idealistic foreign policy which seek the promoting mutual understanding and goodwill, but was dissolved in transition to realistic foreign policy after World War Ⅱ and deepening the Cold War. The main concerned are of IPR, East Asia has three common features which are cultivation of rice, rapid economic development and pursuit of economic unification, and share of regional order which was built in long history.⋯

Author : Chi-won Choi Journal : Zeitschrift der Koreanisch-Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaften Publisher : Koreanisch-Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaften Volume : 27(2) Publication Date : June, 2017 Abstract : If politics is understood as a science, it is supposed to be the science based on natural sciences. The natural sciences aim at attaining the truth whose essence is repeatability, prediction, regularity and law, which completely get rid not only of man but also of the context of history, institutions, practices and language on the basis of which man lives. The politics, while it ceaselessly apes the manners of natural sciences, has lost its identity and it ability to reflect itself. It is thus necessary to reflect and recover the true meaning of the politics, in the light of the discipline which is different from natural sciences and which explores the questions of human, morals and social & historical phenomenon. This study explores the meaning of⋯

Author : Jae-Kwan Jung Journal : International Journal of Korean Unification Studies Publisher : Korea Institute for National Unification Volume : 26(1) Publication Date : June, 2017 Abstract : How could North Korea have been sustained so far despite that it has been considered as a failed state? Why there has been no coup d’état or rebellion in North Korea? This article aims to seek the sources of the North Korean regime’s durability by drawing on the insights of comparative authoritarianism that has made remarkable progress in the past decade. According to comparative authoritarianism, regime durability varies by the type of authoritarianism. North Korea is classified as a mix of personalist and one-party dictatorship, which is considered more durable than other types of dictatorships. However, this type of dictatorship is most likely to break down by a coup or rebellion. This article thus proposes a multi-level theory of rebellion and calls for⋯

Author : Shin-wha Lee Journal : Journal of International and Area Studies Publisher : Institute of International Affairs, Seoul National University Volume : 24(1) Publication Date : June, 2017 Abstract : This study aims to discuss characteristics and limits of Korea’s human security-oriented policies in global and regional dimensions as a core tool of identifying itself middle power country. Having recognized a ‘global-regional divide’ in Korea’s positions and leverage, the paper argues that its middle power diplomacy should distinguish the global and regional levels in planning strategies. The paper also argues that it is more realistic for Korea to purse soft power to induce support and agreement from other states rather than hard power to muddle through regional power competition. Yet, given the possibility where its endeavor can be thwarted by its the regional dynamics of the great power politics, it is equally important for Korea to secure a sizable⋯

Authors : Shin-wha Lee and Yangho Rhee Journal : Discourse 201 Publisher : The Korean Association Socio-Historical Studies Volume : 20(2) Publication Date : May, 2017 Abstract : Over the past decades, much scholarly and policy efforts have been made in order to seek the means of advancing and institutionalizing multilateral regional security cooperation in Northeast Asia. Yet, the region still lacks in a formal regional security cooperation entity. This paper intends not to discuss the widely-discussed achievements and limits of developing such an entity. Instead, the paper examines the background, processes, and impacts of the US-China rivalry in the field of multilateral regional security, both at the regional and global levels. Through this examination, the paper discusses how relatively weaker states in the region, including Korea, have been influenced by great powers` competition over multilateralism and what these small and middle powers could and should do to maintain their own leverage.⋯

Author : Hun Joon Kim Journal : Journal of East and West Studies Publisher : Institute of East and West Studies, Yonsei University Volume : Vol.29. no.1. Date : 2017 Abstract : Indigenous affairs has been described as a ‘wicked policy issue’ in Australia and remains one of the most difficult policy issues. The legacies of British colonization continued in debates over the appropriate recognition of indigenous peoples in Australia’s Constitution. However, in 1967, a continued civil rights campaign by indigenous activists resulted in overwhelming support for a referendum granting indigenous population equal citizenship rights. The 1967 referendum was a watershed event in Australia’s indigenous affairs but it was only the beginning of a long struggle. It is the development and global diffusion of human rights and transitional justice, which influenced the significant changes in Australia’s indigenous policy. Since the 1990s, a decade of official reconciliation began and the debates⋯

Author : Jiil Kim Journal : The Quarterly Journal of Defense Policy Studies Publisher :  Korea Institute for Defense Analyses Volume : 115 Publication Date : April, 2017 Abstract : Park Jung-hee’s administration had pursued nuclear missile development despite strong opposition from the United States, so why did they decide to abandon nuclear weapons and devote solely to missiles? To answer this question, this study makes use of process tracing, while contributing to academic debate in two ways. First, this study reviews the historical evidence by adopting a new comprehensive approach, which breaks the tradition of viewing the development of nuclear weapons and missiles in the days of Park Jung-hee’s administration as two separate programs. Second, nuclear missile development during Park Jung-hee’s administration created a precedent when Korea abandoned the pursuit of nuclear weapons and went on to develop a missile within limits set by the United States, which produced a procedure for⋯

Author : Chi-won Choi Journal : Culture and Politics Publisher : Hanyang Peace Institute Volume : 4(1) Publication Date : March, 2017 Abstract : The three countries of East Asia, Korea, China, and Japan, have existed on the basis of different forms of life called Confucianism, which is a unique view of human nature containing institutionalstructural logics of politics and society. A totally new system and value called democracy, however, has come into the East Asian mode of existence. The East Asian phenomenon, in which complex contradictoryaspects of political society appear, makes us inevitably ask what the democracy in East Asia is. This study, from a historicalphilosophical and cultural-political perspective, examines the question of what the democracy today means to us in the context of the “here [at the regional-spatial level] and now [at the temporal level].” Source link