South Korea's Grand Strategy : Making Its Own Destiny Hardback

by Ramon Pacheco Pardo

Part of the Contemporary Asia in the World series

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Since the end of the Cold War, South Korea has taken on a greater role in global affairs.

Ramon Pacheco Pardo provides a groundbreaking analysis of South Koreaâ€™s foreign policy from its transition to democracy in the late 1980s through the present day, arguing that the countryâ€™s approach to the world constitutes a grand strategy. This book examines the key factors and goals that shape South Koreaâ€™s long-term strategy, with analysis that brings together its diplomatic, military, economic, and soft-power components.

Pacheco Pardo shows that South Koreaâ€™s fundamental aim has been to move beyond its past as a â€œshrimp among whalesâ€ and instead attain autonomy and freedom of action.

He explores how South Korean leaders across parties and governments have pursued security, prosperity, and status.

Pacheco Pardo tracks South Koreaâ€™s core relationships with North Korea, the United States, and China, and he details the countryâ€™s objectives and policies across East Asia, the Asia-Pacific region, and the rest of the world. Drawing on in-depth interviews with past and present policy makers, this book presents an analytical account of how South Korean strategy is made and practiced.

It expertly lays out South Koreaâ€™s grand strategy and, more broadly, makes a compelling case that middle powers like South Korea can implement grand strategies.