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Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2015

18 Publications

South Korea’s Development Assistance and Economic Outreach Toward Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is the region where Japan has been most deeply engaged in the postwar era. Japan has provided over half of its official development assistance (ODA) to the region, accounting in 1960 to 2011 for 34.9 percent of ODA from the world to today’s ten Association of Southeast Nations…

Korea's Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP)

Korea’s Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP), launched in 2004, is a policy-oriented development cooperation program in which Korea shares its development experience and knowledge to support the institutional and capacity building of partner countries through a series of collaborative research works, policy consultations, and technical assistance, on policy issues identified by…

Introduction | Developmental Assistance by South Korea and Japan

The states of Southeast Asia are on the front lines of competition not only in regard to the balance of military and political power, as analyzed in Section I, but also with respect to their economic orientation. China understands this well with its initiatives to join in FTAs as well…

Japanese National Identity and the Search for Realism Toward North Korea and Russia

North Korea and Russia are seen as posing an increasingly dangerous military threat as we enter 2015, and the responses of other states to them are widely perceived as realist in nature, prioritizing security and setting aside other concerns. The United States, in turn, is regarded as the leader of…

Ethnic Brothers or Migrants: North Korean Defectors in South Korea

Over the past sixty years, the two Koreas have embarked on completely different paths in almost every respect. One developed into a successful example of democracy with remarkable economic growth, while the other became one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet under a dynastic dictatorship in its third…

Family, Mobile Phones, and Money: Contemporary Practices of Unification on the Korean Peninsula

Moving from the powerful and abstract construct of ethnic homogeneity as bearing the promise for unification, this chapter instead considers family unity, facilitated by the quotidian and ubiquitous tools of mobile phones and money, as a force with a demonstrated record showing contemporary practices of unification on the peninsula. From…