The Ripple Effect in Korea

Gibney, Frank

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“…99 The EU idea of freedom is thus not based on submission to a sovereign in the vein of Bodin, 100 even if the sovereign is actually the very people, the demos itself, 101 democracy implying, following Gibney's apt characterisation, 'the meshing of two ideas: that rights matter and that demos rules'. 102 EU citizenship emerges as overwhelmingly traditional in terms of the key form of exclusion it advocates and, simultaneously, extremely innovativeif not potentially destructive from the point of view of traditional democratic theoryin terms of implicitly denying the necessity of a political community. This is what it tacitly advocates through the promotion of liberation from 'suffocating bonds': a well-known problem addressed in a broader context by a number of writers.…”

Section: The Official Eu Story Today: the Law Of As Ifmentioning

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Neo-Mediaeval Permutations of Personhood in the European Union

Kochenov

2016

SSRN Journal

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The legal understanding of personhood is dynamic and evolves through the ages. This paper shows how a contemporary shift, under the influence of, inter alia, the law of the European Union, provides an unexpected excursion into the past, reminiscent as it is of some pre-modern approaches, thus showing deep-rooted conflicts between how the Union operates and the classical ideology of demos, democracy and citizenship. The fact that this is undoubtedly inadvertent does not alter the outcomes of this process. The new individualism, which the EU tacitly promotes with all its accidental cosmopolitanism is presented here as neo-mediaevalism. The core distinction at the heart of such legal paradigm of personhood is between the free and unfree; the core moral value is the precise apportionment of liberty among the persons in accordance with their legally recognisable chance and circumstance. This paradigm of personhood, which is essentially private, not public in nature, almost became extinct in contemporary world with the advent of democracy, equality, and the status of citizenship based on the citizen/foreigner distinction. This is what the EU now happens to be reviving. As a result, equality is not treated as a valuenot even as a starting presumption;community does not build on the idea of sovereignty and submission; and liberty is detached from the political realm and does not imply collective self-determination.

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Section: The Official Eu Story Today: the Law Of As Ifmentioning

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Neo-Mediaeval Permutations of Personhood in the European Union

Kochenov

2016

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The Sino‐Soviet conflict and its impact on the Korean Peninsula

Choi¹

1982

Journal of East and West Studies

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Abandonment, Entrapment, and Neoclassical Realism in Asia: The United States, Japan, and Korea

Victor

2000

Int Studies Q

105

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For decades, area specialists have argued that international relations IR! theory cannot adequately explain security dynamics in East Asia as a result of cultures, histories, and traditions distinct from the West. A shining anomaly put forth in this regard is the relationship between Japan and the Republic of Korea~ROK!. Why have these two powers had such volatile relations, despite their élite ties, economic complementarities, and shared security adversaries throughout the Cold War and Post-Cold War eras? Area scholars point to historical antagonism as the primary explanatory variable; however, this at best explains only part of the picture~i.e., the friction but not the cooperation!. Balance of threat theorists might explain Japan-Korea volatility as a function of changes in the level of external threat; however, variations in threats posed to the two powers do not correlate well with outcomes in bilateral interaction. Developing the concept of quasi-alliances~two states that remain non-allied but share a third power as a common ally!, this article argues that Japanese and Korean perceptions of their common great power patron's security commitment~the United States! directly affects the level of political-military cooperation between the two quasi-allied states. Fears of U.S. abandonment determine when and under what conditions historical anger most affects the tenor of relations. The level of patron commitment is also a better determinant of alliance behavior than the level of external threat. Framing the relationship in this manner, I attempt to acknowledge area scholars' concerns about the critical role of history and culture, but consider history's salience in the context of equally critical but acultural security ties that underlie the two states' triangular relations with the United States. For alliance theory, this East Asian case shows how alignment choices are not a direct function of external threat but threats as refracted through perceptions of patron commitment. In security relationships with high degrees of asymmetrical dependence, patron promises matter more than adversarial threats because promises can mitigate threats, leading to behavior not predicted by balance of threat theory. Moreover, in extreme cases, promises or lack thereof ! can affect alliance behavior irrespective of variations in the objective level of external threat.

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The Ripple Effect in Korea

Cited by 5 publications

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Neo-Mediaeval Permutations of Personhood in the European Union

Neo-Mediaeval Permutations of Personhood in the European Union

The Sino‐Soviet conflict and its impact on the Korean Peninsula

Abandonment, Entrapment, and Neoclassical Realism in Asia: The United States, Japan, and Korea

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