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Is North Korea a Failed State? Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Jiyoung Kim
Is North Korea a failed state? Through a case study of North Korea, this study tackles the meaning of defining a state as “failed” and highlights the theoretical and conceptual limitations of the failed state approach. This study presents a thorough literature review on the subject and aims to bridge a theoretical gap between academic discussions of failed states in the field of international development
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Perspectives on Russia, the USA, and the EU's Power Struggle in the Ukraine Crisis and Vietnam's Neutrality Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Nguyễn Anh Cường
Europe's worst political disaster since the Cold War was Ukraine's crisis from 2013 to Russia's full-scale war on 24 February 2022. War? The choice of a national development model, cultural conflicts, and regional identities in Ukraine are internal causes. At the same time, competition for influence between great powers such as Russia, the USA, and the EU in Ukraine are external. Vietnam is similar
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship and the Rising Popularity of Korean Cuisine: Korean Restaurant Businesses in Frankfurt* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Jihye Kim
In recent decades there has been a dramatic increase in Korean restaurants in Frankfurt, Germany. Based on ethnographic research conducted in Frankfurt in 2022, this research explores multiple situational factors across socio-structural layers influencing Korean restaurant owners in their decision to open their businesses. The study found that the economic, cultural, and social contexts in Germany
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Security Threats and Military Strategic Factors in the Russo–Ukrainian War: Focusing on the Russia's Identification of Greater Eurasianism and the Instability of the Buffer Zone* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Jiwon Yun
The Russo–Ukrainian war has lasted longer than expected due to a combination of two reasons: security threats and military-strategic conflicts. It turned out that through this conflict, the paradigm of war has changed rapidly enough to be called a game changer. This article aims to provide a theoretical analysis of the main factors in Russia's foreign policy that concern a security threat to the instability
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Study on the International Law of Japan's Discharging Contaminated Water from the Nuclear Accident into the Sea* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Wei Wu, Junming Gong
This paper focuses on the issues of international law involved in discharging of nuclear contaminated water from a nuclear accident into the sea, taking Japan as an example, and proposes a pathway for marine environmental cooperation as a reference for regional States and the international community. Specifically, this paper first examines the current situation of the discharge of contaminated water
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Correction to “Infeasible Punishment and Noneffective Threats: Political Feasibility of Nuclear Punishment and Policy Choices after Direct Nuclear Deterrence Failure” Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-10
In the article by Kim et al. (2022), the following error was published on page 373, in the table of contents and in the contributor list: The affiliation for the last author, Lana Shehadeh, is listed as Arab American University of Palestine. This is incorrect. It should be Arab American University.
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Essential Factors in the Stabilization of US Military Base Politics in Okinawa: An Application of Q Methodology* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Ryota Hiyane, Long Piao
As US-China competition intensifies in East Asia, the USA and Japan are strengthening military bases and training in and around Okinawa. As a result, the Okinawan people worry that Okinawa might again become a battlefield as in World War II. Opposition to military bases is increasing, as is discussion of the dispute over US military bases in host countries. Earlier research suggests that the stability
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A Game Analysis of the Evolution of China–US Trade Friction Based on “Differential Pattern” and “Group Pattern”* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Zhifeng Shen, Yifan Xia, Wei Wang, Zhihui Li, Hun-koo Ha
In the context of Russia's special military operation against Ukraine, the purpose, scope, and final outcome of the China–US trade frictions are highly dynamic, complex, and uncertain. Combining the 4-year trend of US–China trade frictions reveals that the China and United States are in a continuous process of exploring their own dominant decisions, so the evolutionary game is an ideal way to analyze
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Implications of North Korean Forest Policy and “Golden Mountain Strategy” Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Sam Un Oh, So Young Park
This study analyzes the implications of forest management and golden walks, which are forest policies that have stood out in North Korea since Chairman Kim Jong-un took power. North Korea strategically uses the term golden mountain to mean “forest restoration that contributes to economic development and improvement of the living standards of its people.” This study emphasizes that the concept of forest
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Unraveling the Thought Probes of US Legislators on Trade Negotiations: Sentiment Analysis of the 108th and 112th US Congressional Speeches* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Jaedong Choi, Rinseo Park, Young Min Baek, Jae Mook Lee
A plethora of literature has investigated the voting behavior of US legislators on trade bills to reveal a possible causal mechanism. Relying on dichotomous roll-call voting data, however, has certain limitations on revealing the comprehensive thought probes of lawmakers on a complex diplomatic issue such as making an FTA deal. In this paper, we provide new insight to fill such a gap by analyzing congressional
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Infeasible Punishment and Noneffective Threats: Political Feasibility of Nuclear Punishment and Policy Choices after Direct Nuclear Deterrence Failure Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Yang Gyu Kim, Tyler Bowen, Lana Shehadeh
Direct nuclear deterrence should provide significant stability considering the defender's capability to inflict enormous costs on the challenger and its high level of resolve to protect its territory and people. In the past, however, nuclear powers' deterrence strategy to prevent adversaries from escalating a crisis has failed. We argue that to manage deterrence failure crises, nuclear weapons would
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Legal Analyses of the Korea–Japan JDA Implementation Dilemma: Stalemate and a Way Out* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Niya Deng, Jiyong Zheng
The 1974 joint development agreement between Korea and Japan established an innovative cooperation regime in the East China Sea. According to the agreement, Korea is obligated to conduct jointly with Japan in the defined zone, but Japan holds a negative stance on the potential reservation, leading to a deadlock on commercial activities. The reasons for the stalemate are, on the one hand, due to a lack
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North Korean Nuclear Crisis from Contending Theoretical Perspectives Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Edward Kwon
This article investigates the North Korean nuclear crisis from various contending international relations theoretical perspectives analyzing North Korea's weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the possibility of regime survival, and various policies for coping with North Korea's nuclear threat. North Korea's nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) programs should guarantee Pyongyang's
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Integration of Marriage Migrants in Korea and Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Nationalism and Citizenship Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Zeljana Zmire
Multiculturalism has been a relatively recent trend in Korea and Japan. Since the 1990s, both countries have been witnessing a rising influx of immigrants, the majority of whom were labor migrants and marriage migrants. Labor migrants have been accepted only as temporary residents. Contrary to this, marriage migrants have been seen as permanent residents, who need to integrate into the family and society
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Arms Control Dialogue or Gray Zone Talks? Pitfalls of the Discourses of Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and Nuclear Arms Control* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Kil Joo Ban
What makes the schemes to address Pyongyang's nuclear program so ineffective? Aside from conventional explanations, two gray zone discourses are at play. First, the gray zone discourse of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula has been viable since 1991. Second, another gray zone discourse of nuclear arms control with North Korea has been gathering pace recently. Gray zone discourses blur the line
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A Study on the “Intra-alliance Bargaining-Based” Approach to the US-Japan Alliance∗ Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Jiyun Kih
This research sheds light on the structural causes of Japanese policy responses to regional power transition that have been often ambiguous and contradictory. No doubt, Japan is one of the most important allies for the US in light of its proactive participation in defense burden–sharing activities. This research observes, however, that Tokyo now finds itself facing the dilemma of being pressured to
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Selective Engagement of US Naval Power in Maritime Conflicts: The Guardian of Freedom of Navigation Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Jonghwan Han
Since the Second World War, the United States has deterred conflictual behaviors over maritime claims that can impede the freedom of navigation, because it is essential for maintaining its leading position in the global system. Basically, many US naval warships operating in the sea clearly shows the US intention to maintain status quo and to prevent the occurrence of any types of disruptions in disputed
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Security Threats and Investment: North Korean Threats and the South Korean Stock Market Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Byunghwan Son, Chungshik Moon
Do external security threats shy away from foreign investors? While classical political economy theories focusing on property rights protection posit that security threats undercut financial inflows, recent empirical studies report rather mixed evidence. We add to this body of research by investigating the effect of North Korean military provocation on financial inflows in South Korean stock markets
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Why Help North Korea? Foreign Aid to North Korea and Its Determinants, 2002–2018* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-08-15 Heon Joo Jung, Geonwoo Park, Myeonggeun Ji, Timothy S. Rich
Since North Korea solicited international assistance due to famine in 1995, the international community has provided billions of dollars of aid to the country. Despite multiple challenges from donors' perspectives, bilateral donors continue to extend aid grants that play a significant role in sustaining North Korea's dysfunctional economy. Nevertheless, there are great variations among bilateral donors
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Framing Immigrant Rights in Politics: Comparative Evidence From Japan and South Korea* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-08-15 Kyunghwan Kim
The aim of this study is to analyse and compare how the rights of low-skilled labour migrants have been formed and developed in Japan and South Korea, from a discursive institutionalist perspective. Over the last two decades, interestingly, the two East Asian nation-states, although having similar policy legacies of East Asian welfare and immigration regimes (productivism and ethnic nationalism), have
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Informal and Reliable: Bolivian Immigrants in Korean Sewing Workshops in the Argentine Garment Industry* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-08-15 Jihye Kim
At the beginning of Korean migration to Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s, most Korean immigrants in Argentina were intensively involved in garment sewing and knitting jobs, working as employees at or owners of Korean workshops subcontracted by Jewish manufacturers. However, due to the substantial upward mobility of the Korean business community, eventually Korean workshop owners, out of necessity,
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Smaller Ally Matters: Civil‐Military Relations and Military Effectiveness in the Fighter eXperimental (FX) III Project of the ROK–US Alliance Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Haneol Lee
This article explores alliance effectiveness with a particular focus on peacetime capability‐building activities. Questioning why an alliance succeeds in an effective capability‐building activity sometimes but not others, this article argues that the key to effectiveness rests on the civil‐military relations of the smaller ally. The military effectiveness of capability‐building activities increases
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What Makes Good Trilateralism? Theorizing the Utilities of Trilateralism in East Asia Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Muhui Zhang
In recent decades, the development of trilateral institutions has proliferated widely in East Asia. Inspired by an analysis of minilateralism, prevailing studies have spoken highly of trilateralism, as trilateral groupings offer greater outputs for regional community building. In contrast to the prevailing optimism, this study argues that trilateralism – the miniature form of multilateralism – is not
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From Humanitarian Relief to Democracy Aid: US Foreign Assistance Towards North Korea, 1996–2016* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Taekyoon Kim, Jong‐Kyun Mok, Changbin Woo, Bo Kyung Kim
This study sets out to discover two hitherto unexplored areas entrenched in US foreign assistance to North Korea. First, it aims to conduct the complete enumeration of US aid projects targeting North Korea for two decades, from 1996 to 2016. A full coverage of humanitarian relations between the United States and North Korea contributes to tracing its evolving trajectories in a complete form. The second
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The Political Dynamics of Japan's Immigration Policies during the Abe Government* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Jiyeoun Song
This paper examines Japan's immigration policies during the Abe government. Japan has maintained its very restrictive immigration policies, especially for unskilled foreign workers, since the early 1990s. But despite Japan's reluctance to open its doors to unskilled foreign workers, the Abe government drastically shifted its policy position toward expanding the employment of unskilled foreign workers
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Maritime CBMs as Soft Deterrence in Northeast Asia: A Sea of Paradox and its Remedies Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Kil Joo Ban
Sources of conflict exist in Northeast Asian waters, ranging from maritime territorial disputes, such as the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands, to friction over maritime airspace within air defense identification zones (ADIZs), and in the great power competition between the United States and China. Sources of cooperation, such as anti‐piracy coordination, also exist in these waters. These two seas coexist despite
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What Kind of “Real World” Makes South Korea's Middle Power Categorization Necessary?* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Monica S. Jeong
The fundamental dilemma in the middle power study is the repeated epistemic fallacies that attempt to answer an ontological question of middle powers with epistemic features. With the common epistemic belief that middle powers are significant actors that play some constructive roles, South Korea is automatically designated as a middle power as long as the agent (researcher or practitioner) finds comparable
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Security Cooperation Between Japan and South Korea on the North Korean Nuclear Threat: Strategic Priorities and Historical Issues* Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Sachio Nakato
This article examines the dynamics of Japanese–South Korean (ROK) relations regarding the North Korean nuclear threat, under the Park Geun‐hye and Shinzo Abe governments. In particular, it explores how security cooperation between Japan and South Korea differed following the third and fourth North Korean nuclear threats. In contrast to existing explanations, this article focuses on the convergence
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South Korea's Embrace of Good Donorship Norms: The Bureaucratic Process of Norm Translation Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Seok Joon Kim, Daniel Connolly
How and when do international norms shape or fail to shape a state's behaviors? This paper examines how and why South Korea decided to accede to the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in 2008. Specifically, we examine the political infighting that shaped the timing and implementation of the decision. Our study highlights what we term
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Small State Intelligence: New Zealand in SEATO Security Affairs Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-04-23 İ. Aytaç Kadıoğlu, Egemen B. Bezci
This article aims to shed light on how and why small states enter into cooperation alliances with greater powers. It does so by assessing the intelligence and security cooperation activities of New Zealand in the Pacific basin as a small state during the Cold War era. It also assesses its relationships with the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States, as well as its role within the Southeast Asia
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The Origin of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia and Japanese Perceptions of the Russo‐Japanese War: A Literature Review Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-04-23 Ji‐won Yun
A great deal of research confirming not only the history of nationalist formation and subsequent eruption but also the political and diplomatic positions regarding territorial disputes in Northeast Asia has accumulated to date. Mostly, these studies have focused on conflicts in Northeast Asia in terms of diplomacy based on national interest and just cause, economic pressures to secure resources, and
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Water Security, Riparian Identity and Korean Nation Branding in the Mekong Subregion Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2019-08-27 Iain Watson, Juliette Schwak
Environmental security has traditionally been placed as a low politics issue in a period of increasing interdependence of transborder issues. This is occurring in the context of regional convergences between hegemonic and hydrological cycles. The Mekong subregional space is being constructed and represented by major donor and recipient stakeholders as a potential and proven site of geo‐economic opportunity
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Conflict or Cooperation? India and Pakistan in Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2019-04-21 Zahid Shahab Ahmed, Sarfraz Ahmed, Stuti Bhatnagar
South Asia is one of the least integrated regions in the world, with persistent India–Pakistan rivalry acting as a major stumbling block to regional cooperation through the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). Nonetheless, both India and Pakistan continue to experiment with multilateral arrangements and both became members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in 2017
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International Sanctions on North Korea: A Two‐Level Solution Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2019-04-21 Sangtu Ko
The North Korean nuclear problem has remained unsolved for 25 years. A variety of approaches can be used to resolve the problem, ranging from economic incentives to dialogues, sanctions, and military strikes, but sanctions appear to be the most plausible solution as a realistic method. Still, the question remains how to make sanctions against North Korea more effective. This article focuses on a regional
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Is the Black Box Predictable? Finding a Way to Forecast North Korea's Nuclear Activity Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2019-04-21 Wei Cao, Qian Liu
This article challenges the stereotype that North Korea's foreign policy is difficult to predict and thus can only be subjected to ex post study. Based on the naive Bayesian method, we establish a short‐term prediction model for North Korea's nuclear and missile tests using international news reports from North Korean media between 2006 and 2018 as a dataset. The test results show that the overall
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A New Law Enforcement Cooperation Model in Southeast Asia and an Examination of Its Global Application: A Korean Desk Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2019-04-21 Jeyong Jung, Chang‐Moo Lee
This paper aims to assess the efficacy of the “Korean Desks” in the Philippines and Vietnam and to investigate whether this new law enforcement cooperation model could be replicated globally. As a research method, in‐depth semi‐structured interviews were conducted with a total of six Korean police officers at the Korean Desks. Three themes emerged from the interview data. First, this cooperation model
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Historical Injustice in East Asia: A Case for Interspatial Law Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2018-12-19 Si‐Jin Oh
Despite recent interest in the history of international law, the question of historical justice is a challenging issue due to the principle of intertemporal law. However, such a formalistic application renders historical injustice on a structural level alongside its substantial level. The injustice issue arising from conflicting normative structures is the focus here. Why is it that European international
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Japan's Foreign Policy on Postwar Issues Relating to South Korea Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2018-12-19 JaHyun Chun, Daeun Choi
This study investigates the causes of Japan's failure to reconcile the matter of South Korean “comfort women” from World War II. It draws on reconciliation theory to determine the cause of failure by Japan. After a review of the literature on this issue with an emphasis on its history, the effect of Japan's problem‐solving attempts, and the backlash after the 2015 “comfort women” agreement, we call
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Maritime Law Enforcement by the Republic of Korea Concerning Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Search and Interdiction Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2018-12-19 Seokwoo Lee, Eonkyung Park
The purpose of this article is to review the practices of South Korea concerning interdiction, especially on the seas, in response to the various sanctions placed on the DPRK by the UN Security Council (UNSC). This article examines the UNSC's resolutions along with Korean statutes and practices. The UN resolutions that are touched on in this article seem to mollify concerns of a breach of international
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Editor's Note: History, Injustice, and International Relations in East Asia Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Jean Young Lee,Seokwoo Lee
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Asymmetric Inter‐Korean Negotiations on Forest Carbon Offset Projects: Feasibility, Stakes, and Referential Variables Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2018-08-22 Man‐ho Heo, Mi‐ran Kim
North Korean forests represent a potential substitutive option for central/local governments and private companies in South Korea seeking to abide by the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. Yet the “protracted [inter‐Korean] conflict” poses many difficulties for negotiating with the North and fulfilling any agreement. Therefore, this research seeks to identify an appropriate orientation and effective
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The Japanese Imperial Mentality: Cultural Imperialism as Colonial Control – Chosun as Exemplar Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2018-08-22 Seok Won Song
Imperial Japanese colonial rule practiced and justified domination–subjection relations between empire and colony and employed the concept of hierarchy using differences in asymmetric power and culture with the purpose of the constant reproduction of these relations. Assimilation and dissimilation formed the two wheels of Japan's vehicle of colonial control. The characteristics of these relations are
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Partially Right, Partially Wrong: Rethinking the Implementation of International Human Rights Law in Countries with Gross Human Rights Violations Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2018-08-22 Buhm‐Suk Baek
The purpose of this paper is to carefully examine the way in which international law has been implemented in the domestic human rights system, with a special focus on how the public legitimacy of international human rights norms can be established in individual states. Simultaneously, it will review whether the current international human rights system has evolved to formulate practically attainable
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Yasukuni and Hiroshima in Clash? War and Peace Museums in Contemporary Japan Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2018-04-16 Jooyoun Lee
This study investigates the role of museums in collective memory by focusing on the Yūshūkan and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum to excavate the meanings of their visual, narrative, and material constructions of Japan's past war. The research found that the museums in Yasukuni and Hiroshima exhibit markedly contrasting memories in terms of what happened during World War II, what kind of lessons
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Does Official Development Assistance Promote Foreign Policy Cooperation from its Recipients? The Case of South Korea Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2018-04-16 Changkuk Jung, Wonbin Cho, Wonjae Hwang
This paper examines whether South Korea's official development assistance (ODA) has promoted foreign policy cooperation from its recipients. To this end, vote congruence between South Korea and its ODA recipients over important issues in the UN General Assembly is analyzed. The results show that, as the size of South Korea's ODA increases, its recipients are likely to vote alongside South Korea on
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Development Power Theory: The South Korean Case Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2018-04-16 Uk Heo, Terence Roehrig
Despite the ties between politics and economics, little attention has been given to how economic development affects foreign policy. To fill the gap in the literature, Heo and Roehrig11 Uk Heo and Terence Roehrig, South Korea's Rise: Economic Development, Power, and Foreign Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). developed a theoretical framework, linking economic development and foreign
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Frame Contest of Foreign Policy: Who Influences Whom in South Korea? Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2018-04-16 Jaeyoung Hur
Unlike under authoritarian rule in South Korea, the autonomy of political actors has increased vastly over the years since democratization in 1987. Moreover, diversified participants of policy‐making beyond political entities, including the media, interest groups, and civil society, have become an important variable to the policy‐making process. From the beginning of his candidacy, President Roh Moo‐hyun
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Domestic Politics, Cultural Conflict, and Global Exposure: Perceptions of Intergovernmental Organizations Across Asia Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-06 Ming‐Chang Tsai
This study examines how Asian people conceive of the United Nations, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund, from three major arguments that have highlighted distinct sources of acceptance of, or distrust for, intergovernmental organizations (IOs). First, the outcome from multilevel analysis across eight Asian societies is supportive of the domestic proxies hypothesis, because the attitudes in
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Discourses of Collaboration Between the Republic of Korea and Russia in the Post‐Soviet Era: A Cultural Outlook Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2017-12-06 Alexandr I. Kuropjatnik, Mina Yang
At present, culture is one of the most important factors in the scientific, technological, and, subsequently, economic development of national economies. Culture encompasses more than just extensive opportunities for exchanges and collaboration between countries – it catalyzes the formation of new opportunities for cultural synthesis that can change its creative potential and forms of engagement in
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Issue Information Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2017-08-04
No abstract is available for this article.
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Reversed Asymmetry in Japan's and Korea's FTAs: TPP and Beyond Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2017-08-04 Byung‐il Choi, Jennifer Sejin Oh
This paper examines recent reversals and divergences in Japan's and Korea's free‐trade agreement (FTA) patterns and strategies through the cases of the Trans‐Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, the Japan–Australia FTA, and the Korea–China FTA. Throughout the 2000s, South Korea was much more proactive in pursuing FTAs with major trade partners and agricultural exporters compared to Japan. Departing
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Thailand's Inconsistent Involvement in ASEAN: The Shifting Domestic Coalition Towards the ASEAN Free-trade Area Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2017-08-01 Sunida Aroonpipat
Although the formation and development of economic regionalism promoted by Thailand have demonstrated some movement towards a deeper economic integration in ASEAN that had been predicted by the Eurocentric theories, it is evident that Thailand's economic regionalism has not developed in a linear fashion. Indeed, the nation's ambitious commitment as a vigorous supporter of ASEAN economic cooperation
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Issue Information Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2017-04-10
No abstract is available for this article.
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21st Century Maritime Power-Politics in the Indian Ocean Region with Special Reference to the Bay of Bengal Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2017-04-01 Mohd Aminul Karim
The aim of this paper is to project the emerging power-relations in the maritime realm between geopolitical players in the Indian Ocean region. These power-relations involve military shields and spears, infrastructure development, alignment–alliance relations, international trade routes, critical choke points, energy, and above all geopolitical implications. The methods followed in the paper are content
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The Norm-Diffusion Capacity of ASEAN: Evidence and Challenges Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2017-04-01 Laura Allison-Reumann
Norms associated with the “ASEAN Way,” namely non-interference, respect for sovereignty, informality, and consensus, primarily reflect processes of interaction. Yet these processes have rarely been examined from the perspective of ASEAN's attempts at norm diffusion. To date, greater attention has been placed on ASEAN as a norm recipient. This article asks how and to what extent ASEAN is a norm entrepreneur
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At the Nexus of Advocacy and Accountability: New Challenges and Strategies for Japanese Development NGOs Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2017-04-01 Hyuk-Sang Sohn, Bok Cheol Jeong, Taekyoon Kim
This study explores how Japanese development non-governmental organizations (NGOs) had altered their patterns of advocacy and accountability after changes in political structure that occurred in the 2000s when the Democratic Party of Japan created the two-party system and the Liberal Democratic Party took power again. After the 1990s, a unique feature of development NGOs actively performing advocacy
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Issue Information Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2016-12-22
No abstract is available for this article.
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From Middle Power to Pivot Power: Korea as an Arctic Observer in the Age of Eurasia Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2016-12-22 Iain Watson
Whilst identification of Korea's Arctic issue agenda and motives has been established, there is little examination as to determining why certain issues and partnerships are being developed at certain points in the context of regional geopolitical shifts. I argue that Korea's role in the Arctic represents a shift in Korea's middle power strategy from bridge nation to pivot nation. Korea's current Arctic
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Prospects and Issues in Systemizing Ecological Defense Planning: Case Study of Korea Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2016-12-22 Ryo Hinata‐Yamaguchi
This paper purports to outline the prospects and issues in systemizing ecological defense planning and to assess the progress in the ROK. While the defense sectors in the United States and a number of European states have taken steps toward systemizing ecological measures in recent years, progress in the ROK has been slow. Problems point to not only technical challenges in systemizing ecological measures
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Proving Korea's Claim of Sovereignty over Dokdo: The Evidentiary Relevance of Imperial Ordinance No. 41 of 27 October 1900 Pacific Focus (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2016-12-22 Seokwoo Lee
Korea's claim of ownership and possession over Dokdo is based on original title and the continuous exercise of sovereignty from earlier Korean kingdoms up until and through the modern period. Japan argues that Dokdo was terra nullius, belonging to no country, when it incorporated Dokdo into Japan in 1905 as part of Shimane Prefecture. A critical piece of evidence contradicting this Japanese argument