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Transforming Global Governance with Middle Power Diplomacy

South Korea's Role in the 21st Century

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Sook Jong Lee

    1. East Asia Institute, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. South Korea Aiming to Be an Innovative Middle Power

    • Sook Jong Lee
    Pages 1-13

  3. East Asian Security and South Korea’s Middle Power Diplomacy

    • Chaesung Chun
    Pages 15-34

  4. US Rebalancing Strategy and South Korea’s Middle Power Diplomacy

    • Scott Snyder
    Pages 35-60

  5. China’s Perception of and Strategy for the Middle Powers

    • Dong Ryul Lee
    Pages 61-86

  6. East Asian Maritime Disputes and South Korea’s Middle Power Diplomacy

    • Min Gyo Koo
    Pages 87-108

  7. The Role of South Korea in the Making of a Regional Trade Architecture: Convening, Bridging, and Designing FTA Networks

    • Yul Sohn
    Pages 109-128

  8. South Korea’s Climate Change Diplomacy: Analysis Based on the Perspective of “Middle Power Diplomacy”

    • Sungjin Kim
    Pages 129-160

  9. South Korea’s Middle Power Roles: Implications to Emerging Middle Powers

    • Sook Jong Lee, Hyee Jung Suh
    Pages 161-165

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 167-173
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About this book

This book examines South Korea’s recent strategic turn to middle power diplomacy, evaluating its performance so far in key areas of security, maritime governance, trade, finance, development assistance, climate change, and cyber space. In particular, the authors pay special attention to how South Korea’s middle power diplomacy can contribute to making the U.S.-China competition in East Asia benefit Korea.


The contributors discuss the opportunities and limits of this middle power diplomacy role, exploring how Korea can serve as a middleman in Sino-Japanese relations, rather than as a US ally against China; use its rich trade networks to negotiate beneficial free trade agreements; and embracing its role as a leader in climate change policy, along with other topics. This book is a must read for foreign policy officials and experts who engage in the Asia-Pacific region, rekindling the academic study of middle powers whose influence is only augmenting inour increasingly networked twenty-first century world.

 


Editors and Affiliations

  • East Asia Institute, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Sook Jong Lee

About the editor

Sook-Jong Lee is the President of the East Asia Institute and a professor of public administration at Sungkyunkwan University. Previously, Dr. Lee was a research fellow at the Sejong Institute, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Lecturer at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Lee received her masters and doctorate in sociology from Harvard University.

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