Research on Korean Foreign Policy since Park Geun-hye Administration from the Perspective of Neoclassical Realism
A Case Study of the THAAD Issue
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https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v18i.1137Keywords:
Korean Foreign Policy, Sino-US Relations, Sino-ROK relations, the THAAD Issue, Neoclassical RealismAbstract
The pervasiveness of Sino-US relations is profoundly reflected in many regions all over the world. As a wrestling field for various forces, Korean Peninsula has a self-evident strategic value to China and the United States, especially in the terms of military security and geostrategy. Due to the sophisticated environment in Northeast Asia, it is necessary to make an in-depth analysis of South Korea's diplomatic decision-making mechanism based on studying the Sino-US competition system. With the help of neoclassical realism theory, we can pay more attention to the role of domestic factors in state actors. The different attitudes and decisions of Park Geun-hye administration and Moon Jae-in administration towards the THAAD system are inseparable from leaders' intentions, strategic culture, state-society relations, domestic system, and other factors. Their joint efforts under the unique political system restrict and affect the decision-making process and results of Korean diplomacy. Therefore, how these domestic factors show a combined impact on the Korean diplomatic decision-making is the key to the study.
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