Drifting apart? The U.S.–ROK alliance at risk
| Autor: | Mitchell B. Reiss |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Zdroj: | Korean Journal of Defense Analysis. 21:11-31 |
| ISSN: | 1941-4641 1016-3271 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10163270902745604 |
| Popis: | Given the success of the U.S.–ROK alliance over the past five and half decades, it is far easier to envision that it will remain undisturbed than to imagine major change, let alone the end of the alliance. Yet past history is no guarantee of future success. Major shifts in American foreign policy, new transnational challenges and a changing political, economic, and security environment in Northeast Asia, call into question whether the alliance will last another 10 years, let alone another half century. By the start of the twenty-first century, the United States had increasingly conceptualized the alliance in regional or even global terms, whereas the ROK military, despite some impressive blue-water naval assets, was still wedded to the mission of peninsular defense. Ideally, the United States would like the ROK to join with U.S. forces in addressing regional and global contingencies, in addition to fulfilling its primary missions to deter and, if necessary, defeat North Korea. Yet America's reori... |
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