Korea's Relations With Her Neighbors in a Changing World

Cloth hardcover, second printing, vii+775pp+7 pages of glossy b&w photos, NOT ex-library. Weight 1110g. Missing the front blank endpaper. A small area of cosmetic damage on first two plates; mild internal creasing. Pages are clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Price-clipped good dust jacket. -- A study of South Korea's strategic efforts to navigate its relationships with the four major powers (USA, Russia, China, Japan). The central theme is the Nordpolitik policy: South Korea's successful diplomatic campaign to establish ties with the Soviet Union and China to isolate North Korea. Kim provides a detailed history of the Korean War's origins to explain why these modern diplomatic manoeuvres were necessary to overcome the dual character of the Korean division. The book synthesises decades of the author's political and academic analysis. As a scholar who also served as a high-ranking official in the South Korean government, Kim provides an insider-outsider perspective on the geopolitical shifts of the late Cold War and the early post-Cold War eras. The book remains a primary reference for the diplomatic history of the Roh Tae-woo administration. -- Contents: I. Korea: 1 New Political Development in with a Vision for the 1990s and Beyond 2 Republic of Korea's Northern Policy: Origin, Development, Prospects 3 UN: Only Organization Capable of Maintaining New World Order 4 Rise of Kim Chong-il: Implications for Internal and External Policies in the 1980s 5 Current Major Trends in North Korea's Domestic Politics, 1983-1984 6 North Korea's Foreign Relations with Major Powers in Recent Years 7 Two Koreas Expected to Reach Stage of Semiunification Before 2000 8 Dual Character of the Korean Division: Implications for a Korean Settlement 9 Probleme einer Wiedervereinigung Koreas: Ein Vergleich mit Deutschland, China und Vietnam 10 Die Veränderung der Internationalen Lage und die Stellung Koreas; II. Korea and America: 11 Influence of the American Constitution on South Korean Constitutional Development Since 1948 12 American Military Government in South Korea 1945-1948: Its Formation, Policies, Legacies 13 US-South Korean Security Relations 14 Korea, U.S. Should Forge Stronger Ties 15 The Press and American Foreign Policy; III. Korea and Russia/East Europe: 16 From Lenin to Gorbachev: An Appraisal of 74 Years of Bolshevism 17 Leadership Change from Brezhnev to Andropov: Impact on International Politics and the Korean Peninsula 18 USSR in American-Korean Relations 19 Soviet Union's New Attitude Towards South Korea in the 1970s 20 Soviet Union's Northeast Asian Policy and the Korean Peninsula in the 1980s 21 Soviet Union and a "Second Korean War": Did the Soviets Plan to Instigate Another Conflict on the Korean Peninsula 22 South Korean Perceptions of the Soviet Union 23 Russian and Soviet Studies in Korea: History, Development, Present Situation 24 Emerging Relations Between South Korea and the Soviet Union 25 South Korean-Soviet Rapprochement and Its Impact on Northeast Asia 26 Korea Looks Forward to Role of New Russia 27 Analysis of the Presidium Members of the Czechoslovak Communist Party; IV Korea and China 28 Sino-North Korean Relations after the Chinese Intervention in the Korean War 29 China's Korea Policy since the Tiananmen Square Incident 30 ROK-PRC Rapprochement and Its Impact on Northeast Asia; V Korea and Japan: 31 Towards the Furtherance of Friendly and Improved Relations Between Korea and Japan; VI. Russia, China and the Korean War: 32 Role of the Soviet Union in the Division of Korea and the Preparations for the Korean War 33 Origins of the Korean War and USSR 34 Korean War and China: Sino-North Korean Relations before the Chinese Intervention in the Korean War 35 International Trends in Korean War Studies 36 Les Tendances Internationales des Recherches sur la Guerre de Corée: Observation Historique des Documents Concernes; Selected Koreans Involved in the Korean War; Index.…