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International Aid and South Korea: Experience from Recipient to Donor
No full textThis book explores South Korea’s experience as an aid recipient, as an aid donor, and as an inter‑Korea aid provider.
Analysing case studies of international aid both received and dispensed by South Korea, from the end of the Korean War until the present day, this collection provides a novel lens through which to explore South Korea’s development pathway. While it examines the cases of Italian and German aid to South Korea during its early economic development period, this volume also delineates South Korea’s international aid in the health and gender sectors. It also discusses the South Korean experience of providing aid to the Mekong region and North Korea. The latter specifically analyses whether this policy represents international altruism or reveals a novel method of international validation for South Korea over its neighbour.
Featuring an exploration of South Korea’s development on the international stage through the lens of aid, this book will appeal to both students and scholars in the fields of Korean studies, East Asian studies, and Asia Pacific studies, as well as in the disciplines of Development Studies and International Relations and Political Economy, particularly that of aid policies and practices
Politics, International Relations and Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula
No full textThis edited volume explores the past, present, and future of the Korean Peninsula, with special focus on South Korea, by connecting developments in politics with those in international relations and diplomacy.
The book focuses on how South Korea’s politics and international relations have evolved since the founding of the First Republic in 1948, with particular attention to the period surrounding the 2022 presidential election. The authors provide new insights into Korean politics, including South Korean electoral reform and relations with China and Japan, North Korea’s nuclear capacity, and North–South diplomacy.
Beginning with a commentary by Colin Crooks, Britain’s current Ambassador to South Korea and former Ambassador to North Korea, on recent British foreign policy changes and UK–Korea relations, this book will appeal to scholars and students of politics, international relations, diplomacy, and Korean Studies
East Asian Area Studies Teaching Programmes in the United Kingdom: A Comparative Case Study of Korean Studies at the University of Central Lancashire and Taiwan Studies at SOAS, University of London
No full textThis chapter compares two area studies teaching programs: Taiwan Studies at SOAS, University of London; and Korean Studies at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). In both cases, humanities, linguistics and social sciences have been well integrated into their programs. The SOAS Taiwan program has largely had a social sciences and humanities focus, with languages receiving less attention. In contrast, the UCLan Korean program began with language components and later expanded to include social sciences modules. The SOAS Taiwan Studies program initially concentrated on postgraduate teaching before, but later on it began to offer more undergraduate classes. The UCLan Korean Studies program has the largest BA program in the UK, and began to offer its MA program in North Korean Studies recently. The SOAS Taiwan Studies program has operated for over two decades in the UK already, while UCLan Korean Studies began about seven years ago. Both teaching programs are well integrated with their research center and institute - the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS and the International Institute of Korean Studies at UCLan. This chapter also discusses some challenges they face, such as securing external funding and scholarship opportunities. In order to achieve enhanced teaching and research environments for both students and academics, both universities will need to develop strong engagement with relevant funders and innovative strategies
Divided Korea: Understanding Unification Narratives
No full textThis book examines how different visions of Korean unification have been formed and contested across history, politics, and culture. From Cold War propaganda to digital diplomacy, or from South Korea’s democratic reforms to North Korea’s Juche ideology, the volume illustrates how unification is regarded as both hope and threat, promise and peril. By comparing Korea with other divided societies such as Germany and Cyprus, the book shows how narratives shape diplomacy, identity, and the prospects for reconciliation
Emerging Economies and the Development Effectiveness Paradigm: A Comparative Analysis of BRICS, IBSA and BASIC in South-South Cooperation
No full text본 연구는 개발효과성 이론에서 강조되고 있는 남남협력에 대해 알아보고, 이를 중심으로 남남협력의 공여국 역할을 하는 신흥경제국 협의체인 BRICS, IBSA, BASIC의 특징과 이들의 남남협력에 대한 기여여부를 비교분석 하였다. 남남협력 메커니즘은 수평적 파트너십과 연대의식을 중심으로 해석하였을 때 수원국의 개발에 기여하는 부분이 강하다고 볼 수 있다. 즉, 남남협력은 개발효과성 이론에서 중요시하는 수원국의 주인의식과 지식공유와 같은 틀에서 보았을 때 기존의 전통적인 북-남 협력보다 더욱 효과적이라 평가할 수 있다. 이는 남남협력을 통해 신흥경제국은 수원국의 주인의식을 고취하고, 수원국은 신흥경제국의 발전경험에 대한 지식공유와 상호학습을 통해 다양한 개발모델을 활용할 수 있기 때문이다. 그러나 신흥경제국의 협의체인 BRICS, IBSA, BASIC을 중심으로 살펴본 결과, 이들 협의체는 남남협력에서 강조되는 수평적 파트너십을 유지하고 있지 않다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 이들 협의체는 OECD DAC 또는 세계은행과 같이 수원국에 대한 우위의 위치에서 개발협력에 참여하고 있었다. 그럼에도 불구하고 이들 협의체는 아직 체계적인 제도가 마련되지 않은 상황에서 선진공여국의 협의체에 비해 비교적 느슨한 형태의 협력이 이루어지고 있다는 점을 감안하여, 향후 BRICS, IBSA, BASIC의 공식적인 체계가 갖추어진다면 남남협력의 모델을 통해 선진공여국 협의체를 보완하는 역할을 하면서 개발효과성 이론에서 중요시하는 원칙들을 중심으로 향후 개도국의 전반적인 발전을 위해 기여할 수 있을 것이라고 보여진다.
This study aims to analyse how BRICS, IBSA and BASIC have contributed to effective development cooperation in South-South cooperation. In order to do this, the research has explored theoretical approach of development effectiveness and South-South cooperation discussions. Findings have shown that the development effectiveness of South-South cooperation is limited in line with the OECD DAC principles such as the Paris Declaration and Busan Global Partnership. However, considering that South-South cooperation is operational by horizontal partnerships and solidarity within the South, it has contributed to the development process in recipient countries. For instance, emerging economies as donor countries within the South-South cooperation mechanism have promoted recipients' ownership by respecting their development needs, and have contributed to provide various development models by knowledge sharing and mutual learning processes. However, it does not seem that BRICS, IBSA and BASIC have contributed to the horizontal partnership in South-South cooperation. On one hand, BRICS, IBSA and BASIC were not originally created on the basis of development cooperation purposes, but rather for investment and trade, and further for the power game in the international economics. Nevertheless, it can be expected that BRICS, IBSA and BASIC can play leading roles in South-South cooperation with their expansion in the future as well as with more systemic institutional development. Yet, it is noteworthy that stronger institutional platforms of BRICS, IBSA and BASIC should be implemented in a way to promote horizontal solidarity with recipient countries
Reassessing the South Korea-China-Japan Trilateral Summits
No full textKorea-China-Japan tripartite cooperation formally began in 1999, with the introduction of supposedly annual leaders’ summits in 2008. The summits stalled a number of times and are widely considered to have achieved little. This chapter considers whether it is correct to characterise these summits as a failure and explores the factors that have hindered further progress. The chapter argues that although the summits might be considered to have been largely a failure by the highest-level criteria applied in International Relations (IR) scholarship, there have been some relatively minor and low-level achievements that have brought tangible benefit within and across the three countries. The reasons for this limited progress are multiple but are centred on the connected issues of the region’s historical hangover and a concomitant absence of trust at the political and societal levels. Nevertheless, the depth of institutionalisation through the process is frequently overlooked and the chapter argues that this depth is cause for optimism. The establishment of the Tripartite Cooperation Secretariat in Seoul combines with almost 100 separate regular dialogue mechanisms including more than 20 at ministerial level to provide a functioning low-level institutionalisation that produces policies and agreements that can make a positive impact on the lives of the peoples in the region. Thus, while the shortcomings of the process as a whole should not be underplayed and the barriers to greater integration remain unaddressed, the wider process of tripartite institutionalisation has actually been more successful than is frequently assumed
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