Engaging China: Seoul-Beijing
            <i>détente</i>
            and Korean security

Cha, Victor

doi:10.1093/survival/41.1.73

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“…In the 1990s, a change in Seoul's perception of Beijing made a shift toward a more proactive engagement with the latter possible. China was no longer seen as a revisionist, but a status-quo power (Cha 1999). Elite views were still dominant then.…”

Section: Explaining South Korea's Strategic Choices: Relevant Factors...mentioning

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China-US Competition

2023

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The present introductory chapter shall set the stage for the edited volume by broadly sketching the contours of the intense strategic competition between China and the United States and its potential to reshape Asia-Pacific and the world order. Briefly, this chapter will also allude to the future probable fallouts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its potential for redrawing geopolitical coordinates and allegiances, for the countries that are in the focus of the present volume.

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“…Despite the history of the Korean War and its legacy, South Korea has accommodated and engaged the PRC in the post-Cold War era (Cha, 1999;Kang, 2009). Since the establishment of diplomatic relationship in 1992, South Korea's and the PRC's bilateral trade volume has continuously increased.…”

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Taking a side between the United States and the People’s Republic of China: Strategic hedging of South Korea and India

Hwang

Ryou-Ellison

2021

International Area Studies Review

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This paper explores how South Korea and India have taken positions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China over diverse foreign policy issues. By adopting dual engagement and strategic ambiguity as hedging strategies, both regional powers reduce their vulnerability to the influence and pressure of the two great powers. Thanks to their strategic importance and prominence in regional politics enhanced by such strategies, South Korea and India can independently pursue their foreign policy preferences to a great extent. The analysis of voting behavior of these regional powers in the United Nations General Assembly between 1991 and 2018 confirms our expectations.

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“…New York Times, 1 March 2001: A10. 14 On Korean-Chinese relations after normalization, seeCha (1999a).15 In 1999, the number of South Koreans visiting the North for business or other cooperation purposes was 40% higher than the total for the nine years to 1997 (Society for Northeast Asian Peace Studies, 1999: 131).…”

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Strategic Uses of Economic Interdependence: Engagement Policies on the Korean Peninsula and Across the Taiwan Strait

Kahler

Kastner

2006

Journal of Peace Research

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While the determinants and effectiveness of economic sanctions have been the subject of a substantial and growing literature in international relations, much less attention has been given to economic engagement strategies, where a country deliberately expands economic ties with an adversary to change the target’s behavior. This article develops a theoretical framework that distinguishes between three types of engagement strategies: conditional policies that directly link economic ties to changed behavior in the target state; unconditional policies where economic interdependence is meant to act as a constraint on the behavior of the target state; and unconditional policies where economic interdependence is meant to effect a transformation in the foreign policy goals of the target state. The article presents several hypotheses concerning the conditions facilitating or hindering the successful implementation of these different strategies, and then examines engagement policies adopted by three East Asian states: South Korea, Taiwan, and mainland China. The cases offer preliminary confirmation of at least three of the hypotheses: conditional strategies are less likely to succeed when the initiating state is a democracy; transformative strategies are more likely to succeed when the target state is a democracy; and transformative strategies are more likely to succeed when a broad consensus exists in the initiating state.

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Engaging China: Seoul-Beijing détente and Korean security

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Taking a side between the United States and the People’s Republic of China: Strategic hedging of South Korea and India

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