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Ambassadors’ Double Header Hits The Road: Six Cities in Eight Days

KEI recently completed its sixteenth annual Ambassadors’ Dialogue program (previously called the Korea Caravan), featuring Lee Tae-sik, the Republic of Korea’s Ambassador to the United...

James H. Alvis

May 25, 2011

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Taking a Larger Role in International Affairs: Korea’s Growing Efforts in Peacekeeping Missions and Development Aid

In 1996, Korea joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), marking Korea's rise into the ranks of the developed world. Only twenty years...

Troy Stangarone

May 25, 2011

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Bush-Roh Summit: Exceeding Expectations?

This past June, President Bush made a series of telephone calls to leaders in the region calling on them to use their influence with Pyongyang...

Jack Pritchard

May 25, 2011

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Ambassadors Connect with America

In a speaking tour to seven major U.S. cities during May 3 through May 11, the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United...

James Lister

May 25, 2011

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Engagement in Action: The Kaesong Industrial Complex

As 2005 wound down, the Six Party Talks appear stalled with the talks likely to resume no earlier than midJanuary. North Korean officials spent December...

Scott Rembrandt

May 25, 2011

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Divergent Consensus: Meeting the Needs of Both Sides of the Coin: A Young Leaders’ Perspective on U.S.-ROK Relations

The relationship between the United States and the Republic of Korea is unique; the challenges it faces are not. Next-generation views of the ties between...

Adrian Yi

May 25, 2011

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The U.S.-Japan Alliance and the U.S.-ROK Alliance

Given the growing importance of East Asia to global stability and prosperity, sustaining the five U.S. treaty alliances in the region—Japan, the Republic of Korea,...

James Przystup

May 25, 2011

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South Korea’s Progressives and the U.S.-ROK Alliance

As the reigning consensus has it, the U.S.-ROK alliance is one of the most successful of its kind in history. The alliance not only succeeded...

Hahm Chaibong

May 25, 2011

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Where Does Northeast Asia Fit in the Bush Administration Foreign Policy?

The 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks shocked the world twice: first, their unimaginable method of attack and, second, the U.S. response in their wake. Doctrines,...

Kwon Man-hak

May 25, 2011

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Academic Science Engagement with North Korea

Science diplomacy refers to international scientiﬁ c cooperation aimed simultaneously at advancing scientiﬁ c knowledge and improving and strengthening broader relations between participating countries and...

Hyunjin Seo

April 25, 2009

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Trust Building through Institutions: European Lessons for Korean Unification

The U.S. National Intelligence Council report, Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World, published in 2008, predicts that Korean uniﬁcation is likely by 2025 “if not...

Martyn de Bruyn

January 28, 2009

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Global Partnership Through Resource Diplomacy: Korea, the United States, and Central Asia

Globalization is a hallmark of the twenty first-century world. As transportation and telecommunications grow in both efficiency and level of performance and as the ambit...

Kent E. Calder

December 25, 2008

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North Korea and Contending South Korean Identities: Analysis of the South Korean Media; Policy Implications for the United States

After North Korea’s nuclear test on 9 October 2006, the fate of South Korea’s engagement policy with North Korea seemed to hang in the balance....

Kristin C. Burke

April 25, 2007

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