South Korea’s Strategy toward a Rising China, Security Dynamics in East Asia, and International Relations Theory

2016/07/01 by Min-hyung Kim

paper · doi:10.1525/as.2016.56.4.707

crossref issued 2016/07/01 · crossref published 2016/07/01 · crossref published-print 2016/08/01 · crossref created 2016/08/10 · crossref deposited 2020/07/19 · crossref indexed 2026/07/24

Abstract

This article contends that South Korea’s behaviors toward China since 1992 can be fully understood when the structural variables of the strategic environment—i.e., economic interdependence, the US-centered hub-and-spoke system, and the North Korean threat—are combined with the domestic variable of Seoul’s leadership change and its perception of threat.

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