Reagan Faces Korea

Author : Chae-Jin Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030305000

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Reagan Faces Korea by Chae-Jin Lee Pdf

This is a unique and definitive study to reassess the complex dynamics of US-Korea diplomatic relations during the Reagan presidency. It examines the goals, methods, and legacy of Reagan’s policy toward Korea with emphasis on the realities of alliance politics and the tactics of quiet diplomacy. It questions a widely held view that Reagan showed simplistic, inattentive, and rigid approaches toward foreign affairs, arguing that his actual policy, as demonstrated in the Korea case, was more sophisticated, nuanced, and pragmatic than commonly assumed. Based on a vast amount of confidential diplomatic documents, especially in Korean, and interviews the author has conducted with US and Korean leaders, Lee sheds new light on Reagan's role in promoting democratization in South Korea as well as his engagement with North Korea.

Author : Van Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300268713

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Pacific Power Paradox by Van Jackson Pdf

A new history of Asian peace since 1979 that considers America’s paradoxical role After more than a century of recurring conflict, the countries of the Asia-Pacific region have managed something remarkable: avoiding war among nations. Since 1979, Asia has endured threats, near-miss crises, and nuclear proliferation but no interstate war. How fragile is this “Asian peace,” and what is America’s role in it? Van Jackson argues that because Washington takes for granted that the United States is a force for good, successive presidencies have failed to see how their statecraft impedes more durable forms of security and inadvertently embrittles peace. At times, the United States has been the region’s bulwark against instability, but America has been a threat to Asian peace as much as it has been its guarantor. By grappling with how America fits into the Asian story, Jackson shows how regional stability has diminished because of U.S. choices, and why America’s margin for geopolitical error is less now than ever before.

Author : Gregg A. Brazinsky
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807867792

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Nation Building in South Korea by Gregg A. Brazinsky Pdf

In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast array of new American and Korean sources, he explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and democratization by the end of the twentieth century. Brazinsky contends that a distinctive combination of American initiatives and Korean agency enabled South Korea's stunning transformation. On one hand, Americans supported the emergence of a developmental autocracy that spurred economic growth in a highly authoritarian manner. On the other hand, Americans sought to encourage democratization from the bottom up by fashioning new institutions and promoting a dialogue about modernization and development. Expanding the framework of traditional diplomatic history, Brazinsky examines not only state-to-state relations, but also the social and cultural interactions between Americans and South Koreans. He shows how Koreans adapted, resisted, and transformed American influence and promoted socioeconomic change that suited their own aspirations. Ultimately, Brazinsky argues, Koreans' capacity to tailor American institutions and ideas to their own purposes was the most important factor in the making of a democratic South Korea.

Author : Michael Rubin
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781594037986

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Dancing with the Devil by Michael Rubin Pdf

The world has seldom been as dangerous as it is now. Rogue regimes—governments and groups that eschew diplomatic normality, sponsor terrorism, and proliferate nuclear weapons—threaten the United States around the globe. Because sanctions and military action are so costly, the American strategy of first resort is dialogue, on the theory that “it never hurts to talk to enemies.” Seldom is conventional wisdom so wrong. Engagement with rogue regimes is not cost-free, as Michael Rubin demonstrates by tracing the history of American diplomacy with North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Libya, the Taliban’s Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Further challenges to traditional diplomacy have come from terrorist groups, such as the PLO in the 1970s and 1980s, or Hamas and Hezbollah in the last two decades. The argument in favor of negotiation with terrorists is suffused with moral equivalence, the idea that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Rarely does the actual record of talking to terrorists come under serious examination. While soldiers spend weeks developing lessons learned after every exercise, diplomats generally do not reflect on why their strategy toward rogues has failed, or consider whether their basic assumptions have been faulty. Rubin’s analysis finds that rogue regimes all have one thing in common: they pretend to be aggrieved in order to put Western diplomats on the defensive. Whether in Pyongyang, Tehran, or Islamabad, rogue leaders understand that the West rewards bluster with incentives and that the U.S. State Department too often values process more than results.

Author : Lou Cannon
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786724178

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President Reagan by Lou Cannon Pdf

Hailed by the New Yorker as "a superlative study of a president and his presidency," Lou Cannon's President Reagan remains the definitive account of our most significant presidency in the last fifty years. Ronald Wilson Reagan, the first actor to be elected president, turned in the performance of a lifetime. But that performance concealed the complexities of the man, baffling most who came in contact with him. Who was the man behind the makeup? Only Lou Cannon, who covered Reagan through his political career, can tell us. The keenest Reagan-watcher of them all, he has been the only author to reveal the nature of a man both shrewd and oblivious. Based on hundreds of interviews with the president, the First Lady, and hundreds of the administration's major figures, President Reagan takes us behind the scenes of the Oval Office. Cannon leads us through all of Reagan's roles, from the affable cowboy to the self-styled family man; from the politician who denounced big government to the president who created the largest peace-time deficit; from the statesman who reviled the Soviet government to the Great Communicator who helped end the cold war.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Korea
ISBN : WISC:89065238792

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Korean Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : United States
ISBN : MSU:31293008122487

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The Department of State Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.

Author : Bradley Lynn Coleman,Kyle Longley
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813169385

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Reagan and the World by Bradley Lynn Coleman,Kyle Longley Pdf

Throughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan sought "peace through strength" during an era of historic change. In the decades since, pundits and scholars have argued over the president's legacy: some consider Reagan a charismatic and consummate leader who renewed American strength and defeated communism. To others he was an ambitious and dangerous warmonger whose presidency was plagued with mismanagement, misconduct, and foreign policy failures. The recent declassification of Reagan administration records and the availability of new Soviet documents has created an opportunity for more nuanced, complex, and compelling analyses of this pivotal period in international affairs. In Reagan and the World, leading scholars and national security professionals offer fresh interpretations of the fortieth president's influence on American foreign policy. This collection addresses Reagan's management of the US national security establishment as well as the influence of Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and others in the administration and Congress. The contributors present in-depth explorations of US-Soviet relations and American policy toward Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. This balanced and sophisticated examination reveals the complexity of Reagan's foreign policy, clarifies the importance of other international actors of the period, and provides new perspectives on the final decade of the Cold War.

Author : United States. President
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Presidents
ISBN : UOM:49015002203355

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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States by United States. President Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Diplomatic and consular service
ISBN : OSU:32435028323756

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Department of State Publication by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : United States
ISBN : MSU:31293011535154

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American Foreign Policy Current Documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015014234788

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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458723642

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Nation Building in South Korea by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on National Security and Veterans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Veterans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045190191

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Review of President Reagan's Proposed Cuts to Veterans by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on National Security and Veterans Pdf

Author : Jack Matlock
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812974898

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Reagan and Gorbachev by Jack Matlock Pdf

“[Matlock’s] account of Reagan’s achievement as the nation’s diplomat in chief is a public service.”—The New York Times Book Review “Engrossing . . . authoritative . . . a detailed and reliable narrative that future historians will be able to draw on to illuminate one of the most dramatic periods in modern history.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., a former U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R. and principal adviser to Ronald Reagan on Soviet and European affairs, gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended. Working from his own papers, recent interviews with major figures, and unparalleled access to the best and latest sources, Matlock offers an insider’s perspective on a diplomatic campaign far more sophisticated than previously thought, waged by two leaders of surpassing vision. Matlock details how Reagan privately pursued improved U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations even while engaging in public saber rattling. When Gorbachev assumed leadership, however, Reagan and his advisers found a willing partner in peace. Matlock shows how both leaders took risks that yielded great rewards and offers unprecedented insight into the often cordial working relationship between Reagan and Gorbachev. Both epic and intimate, Reagan and Gorbachev will be the standard reference on the end of the Cold War, a work that is critical to our understanding of the present and the past.