Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Part I Competing Visions of Regional Order Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth Centuries......Page 15
An Interconnected History......Page 23
The Tokugawa World Order and Korea......Page 25
Korea at the Center of Japanese Regional Strategic Thinking......Page 26
Conclusion......Page 31
2 Russian Views of Korea, China, and the Regional Order in Northeast Asia......Page 33
Russia and Asia......Page 34
An Unwelcome Immigrant......Page 35
Images and Foreign Policy......Page 36
Russian Views of Korea......Page 39
Russia’s Far Eastern Policy and Korea......Page 40
Korea as a Source of Immigration......Page 48
Conclusion......Page 51
Choosing a Civilization and a Race......Page 53
Defending Confucian Civilization......Page 54
Modernity, the New Civilization......Page 57
Japan to the Rescue......Page 60
Racial Harmony and Regional Cooperation......Page 64
My Nation, Civilized or Not......Page 65
Conclusion: A Lesson Too Well Learned......Page 67
4 Trade, Dependency, and Colonialism Foreign Trade and Korea’s Regional Integration, 1876–1910......Page 69
Pre–Open Port Period Trade......Page 70
Pusan: The “Natural” Treaty Port......Page 71
Wonsan: Gold-Driven Prosperity......Page 73
Inchon: Importer’s Prize......Page 77
Domestic and Regional Integration......Page 83
Colonial Consolidation......Page 86
Part II Competing Regional Orders Colonialism, the Cold War, and Their Legacies......Page 89
5 From Japanese Imperium to American Hegemony Korean-Centrism and the Transformation of the International System......Page 95
The Level of the World......Page 98
The Great Crescent and the Kennan Restoration......Page 100
South Korea’s Industrial Takeoff......Page 106
6 Japanese Colonial Infrastructure in Northeast Asia Realities, Fantasies, Legacies......Page 112
Prewar Japanese Infrastructure in Northeast Asia......Page 113
Reordering the Space of Northeast Asia......Page 119
Assessing Postcolonial Legacies......Page 125
Marxism-Leninism and the Layers of History......Page 130
Soviet Imperial Economy?......Page 132
Ultimate Technology Transfer?......Page 136
Dependency, Rivalry, Independence......Page 140
The Unraveling and the Legacies......Page 143
8 Japan’s Asian Regionalism and South Korea......Page 146
Japan’s Asian Regionalism: Historical Overview......Page 147
Japan’s Regional Security Policy and Implications for South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s......Page 149
Japan’s Economic Regionalism and South Korea......Page 155
Conclusion......Page 161
Part III Toward a Broad Regionalism?......Page 165
9 Regionalism in Northeast Asia Korea’s Return to Center Stage......Page 175
South Korea’s Place in Regionalism at the End of the Cold War......Page 177
South Korea’s Place in Decentralized Regionalism of the Early 1990s......Page 179
South Korea in Search of a Civilizational Path to Regionalism in the Mid-1990s......Page 180
South Korea in Great-Power Balancing in the Late 1990s......Page 182
The Sunshine Policy and Its Meaning in the Search for Regionalism, 1999–2000......Page 183
Northeast Asian Regionalism in the War Against Terror, 2001–2002......Page 184
From the Iraq War to the Nuclear Crisis and South Korea’s Aspirations......Page 185
A Snapshot of Korea-Centered Regionalism......Page 188
10 Inter-Korean Relations in Northeast Asian Geopolitics......Page 191
The Northeast Asian Geopolitical Environment, Old and New......Page 192
Back to the Future of Inter-Korean Cooperation......Page 193
The Shifting Identities, Roles, and Policies of the NEA-4......Page 195
Conclusion......Page 205
11 Japan’s Multilevel Approach Toward the Korean Peninsula After the Cold War......Page 207
South Korea as the Gateway to Regionalism?......Page 209
Toward a Breakthrough with North Korea?......Page 212
Conclusion......Page 222
12 Korea and China in Northeast Asia From Stable Bifurcation to Complicated Interdependence......Page 224
Sino-Korean Relations as Derivatives of Great-Power Dynamics......Page 225
Sino-Korean Relations as a Key Independent Variable......Page 230
The Two Koreas Between China and the United States......Page 234
Traditional Soviet Policies in Northeast Asia and Korea......Page 238
Gorbachev’s Strategy in the World and on the Korean Peninsula......Page 240
Initial Post-Soviet Russia’s Policies and Korea......Page 242
Factors of Change......Page 244
Korea’s Place in Putin’s International Strategy......Page 245
The Issue......Page 251
Environmental Regionalism in Northeast Asia......Page 252
Common Environmental Problems in Northeast Asia......Page 254
Progress and Prospects for Environmental Regime-Building in Northeast Asia......Page 257
Korea’s Role in Regional Environmental Cooperation......Page 261
Conclusion......Page 265
Transforming Global Cultural Landscapes: Changing Directions and Multiple Routes of Transnational Cultural Flows......Page 268
The Market, the State, and Globalization of the Media......Page 270
Modernity, Desire, and Nostalgia......Page 274
Historical, Political, and Cultural Legacies in East and Southeast Asia......Page 276
Implications of the Korean Wave......Page 278
Conclusion......Page 280
Epilogue Korea, Northeast Asia, and the Long Twentieth Century......Page 281
Notes......Page 287
About the Editors and Contributors......Page 333
Index......Page 337