Uk Heo
Biographic Data
| ID | 178974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uk Heo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uk |
| FAMILY NAME | Heo |
| SIGNATURE | HEO U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7416-6175 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 316 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Comparative Analysis of Soft Power Between South Korea and the United States: A Theoretical Mechanism Approach
Since Nye's introduction of the soft power concept, there have been scholarly debates on whether it is real and how it works. Despite the vast volume of studies, there is a void in the literature on theoretically explaining and empirically testing if soft power can be generated without the support of hard power. To fill this gap in the literature, we developed two theoretical mechanisms that describe the mechanism of US soft power (great power) a…
The economic effects of winning coalition size on the aid‐growth nexus
Objective Despite a plethora of studies on the relationship between foreign aid and economic growth of the recipient countries, there is no consensus. We argue that the size of the winning coalition dictates the decision on how the aid capital is used because the top priority of national leaders is staying in power. To this end, we investigate how the size of the winning coalition affects the relationship between foreign aid and economic growth. …
Asia in 2020
The biggest stories of the year 2020 were the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute between the United States and China. The pandemic significantly damaged the Asian economies. The US-China trade war halted after a phase one trade deal and the pandemic, but the future is unclear
US Military Deployment and Its Effects on South Korea's Politics and Economy
Due to the lack of studies on the effects of US troops on an individual host state, we studied the effects of US troops on South Korea's politics and economy. Based on security enhancement benefits, we hypothesized that USFK would have positive effects on South Korea's investment, trade, economic growth, and political development. Employing Heo and Ye's empirical models, we conducted statistical analyses and found that the effects of USFK on Sout…
Asia in 2019
Among the major events that occurred in Asia in 2019 were four that received global attention: the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the US-China trade war, the North Korean nuclear issue, and protests in Hong Kong. These events have significant policy implications for the world as well as for Asia
President Moon Jae-in at Midterm: What Affects Public Support for Moon Jae-in
Despite the unsuccessful outcomes of his policies on economic growth and North Korea, Moon Jae-in at midterm has received relatively high levels of job approval ratings compared to his immediate predecessors. What made it possible for him to maintain these ratings? To analyze this puzzle, we employed the three commonly noted leadership qualities-effective communication, political skill, and organizational capacity-suggested by presidential study …
History and Territorial Disputes, Domestic Politics, and International Relations An Analysis of the Relationship among South Korea, China, and Japan
South Korea, China, and Japan have history and territorial disputes in each of their bilateral relationship. These issues have existed for several decades, but they have not surfaced all the time. In the recent past, however, both China and Japan adopted policies that caused friction. Why did they do that? That is because of China s aggressive foreign policy based on the strong economy and Japan s rightwing shift for domestic political reason to …
South Korea in 2018
The biggest story of 2018 was a series of summit meetings between US President Donald Trump, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to discuss the denuclearization of North Korea. The income-led growth policies of the Moon Jae-in administration have not stimulated the economy
U.S. Military Deployment and Host-Nation Economic Growth
Since the end of World War II, the U.S. military has deployed its troops all over the world for regional security and/or peace building. Despite the importance of its political, economic, and military impact on the region, few studies examined how U.S. military deployment overseas affects the host nation’s economy except Jones and Kane (2012) and Kane (2012). To help fill the gap in the literature, we tested how substantial U.S. troop deployment …
Economic Globalization and Democratic Development in East Asia: The Indirect Link
Over the past decades, East Asian states have enjoyed economic development and progress toward democracy through extensive economic transformation: trade and financial liberalization. To explain the theoretical mechanism of these variables, we investigate the direct and indirect effects of globalization on democratic development via economic development. To this end, a two-equation model is specified and estimated using data from 1972 to 2010 for…
The Evolution of the South Korea–United States Alliance
In contrast to previous studies of the South Korea-United States alliance, Uk Heo and Terence Roehrig analyze the bigger picture, including the history, economics, security, alliance structure, politics, and the future of the alliance. Taking alliance theory as a starting point, the authors argue that the alliance provides an ideal case study to examine how the political development and economic growth of junior partners impact an alliance. As So…
Development Power Theory: The South Korean Case
Despite the ties between politics and economics, little attention has been given to how economic development affects foreign policy. To fill the gap in the literature, Heo and Roehrig developed a theoretical framework, linking economic development and foreign relations. We refine the theory and name it development power theory , which is based on the logic that economic development influences a country's foreign policy in three broad directions: …
International Organizations and Democracy Development: The Indirect Link
Objective Few studies have systematically examined the international organization (IO)‐democracy nexus, except Pevehouse (2002, 2005), who found the democratizing impact of regional IOs. Our study extends previous research by investigating the indirect as well as the direct effects of IOs on democracy. Methods We employ a two‐equation model, using the data for 112 developing countries for 1972–2002. Results Regional IOs increase the level of econ…
South Korea in 2017
The biggest story of 2017 in South Korea was the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye and the election of Moon Jae-in, shifting power from conservative to progressive. The economy showed signs of recovery despite multiple concerns. The North Korean nuclear crisis intensified tensions in the region
Economic Development and South Korea's UN PKO Participation
In this paper, we develop a theory on how economic development in South Korea has reshaped its foreign policy and examine the rising middle power's personnel contributions to the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations (PKOs) using a supply-side rational choice model. Not only do the results reaffirm economic development as the fundamental driving force of South Korea's growing contributions to UN PKOs, a handful of factors that influence Sou…
The First Female President in South Korea: Park Geun-hye's Leadership and South Korean Democracy
When Park Geun-hye was elected South Korea's first female president in 2012, many expected that South Korea's democracy would deepen. Contrary to the expectation, however, from the beginning of her administration, there were concerns about democracy retreating due to her leadership style/qualities. Despite her rather "undemocratic" leadership qualities, Park Geun-hye has consistently received 30% or higher job approval ratings until "Choi Soon-si…
Factors Affecting ROK-US Relations, 1990-2011: An Empirical Analysis
This study investigates what factors affect Republic of Korea (South Korea)-United States (ROK-US) relations based on a theoretical framework, using event data created by content analysis from 1990 to 2011. South Korea's economic development led to democratization, which resulted in elite changes. New progressive elites interpreted national interests differently and demanded changes in ROK-US relations. Accordingly, the ROK-US relationship was te…
What Affects Korea–US Relations
Despite a plethora of studies on ROK–US relations, few have systematically examined the factors that have caused changes in the relationship between the two states. To fill this gap in the literature, this article investigates the factors that have caused the fluctuation in the relationship between South Korea and the United States in recent years. The authors argue that three factors have affected ROK–US relations in recent decades: (i) domestic…
Defense Spending and Economic Growth around the Globe: The Direct and Indirect Link
In this study, we combine both demand- and supply-side models to investigate the direct and indirect link between defense spending and economic growth. With data from 161 states for 1990–2012, we conduct a comprehensive examination of the defense-growth nexus in the post-Cold War world. Our findings suggest that at the global level, military spending significantly dampens private investment but somewhat reduces unemployment. However, the direct e…
Democracy, Institutional Maturity, and Economic Development
Objective Despite a plethora of studies on the relationship between democracy and economic development, a dominant theoretical framework has yet to emerge. Economic development may lead to the transition to democracy and mature democratic institutions are likely to help economic development. Thus, in this article, we test the relationship among economic development, institutional maturity, and democracy. Methods In a recent study, Gerring et al. …
Another View on the Relationship Between Democratization and Intra-Military Division in South Korea
Armed Forces and Society recently published an article, “Intra-Military Division and Democratization in South Korea” by Insoo Kim. In the article, Kim argues that economic development and civil society explanations for South Korea’s democratization are not sufficient because conflict in the military undermined the ability of Chun’s government to suppress the democracy movement, which made the transition possible. We refute Kim’s argument because …
Political Culture and Democratic Consolidation in South Korea
South Korea experienced democratization in 1987, yet violations of the democratic rule of law are rather common; such actions are far from routine practices of democratic institutions. We argue that South Korea’s political culture is the reason for the tardy maturing of democratic institutions
Bibliographie / Bibliography
The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement between China and Taiwan and Its Implications for South Korea
In June 2010, the People's Republic of China and Taiwan signed the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), a preferential trade agreement, which is arguably the most important agreement between China and Taiwan. In this paper, we analyze ECFA and investigate its implications for South Korea since China is South Korea's largest trade partner and Taiwan is its sixth largest. We find that ECFA will have significant political and economic im…
Who Pays for National Defense? Financing Defense Programs in the United States, 1947–2007
Past studies on military expenditures in the United States have primarily focused on the extent to which guns versus butter trade-offs are prevalent without examining this relationship in the context of how other fiscal policy tools are used to pay for defense. Using annual data from 1947–2007, this study examines the relative importance of defense financing policy measures, such as guns versus butter trade-offs, tax increases, and deficit spendi…
Performance, leadership, factions and party change: An empirical analysis
This article reports the first empirical findings based on data from a major study of party change. Hypotheses are developed linking party change to both internal and external factors. The data provide support for the conclusion that electoral performance alone is not sufficient as an explanation for parties' decisions to change, and that new leaders and/or dominant factions may indeed make a difference. This leads the authors to suggest that 'th…
Democracy and Economic Growth: A Causal Analysis
Since Seymour Martin Lipset's seminal work on the socioeconomic prerequisites of democracy, a substantial number of social scientists has theorized and empirically tested theories about the relationship between democracy and economic development.1 Democratization's third wave has renewed interest in this relationship.2 This interest is evident in the increasing number of studies that explore the relationship of democracy to economic development.3…
Modeling the Defense-Growth Relationship around the Globe
One of the most important questions stemming from the end of the cold war is how reductions in defense spending will affect economic performance. This question has significant policy implications for countries facing public demands for defense cutbacks and countries still maintaining high levels of military spending for security. However, previous studies on the defense-growth relationship have reported mixed findings. Thus, this study investigat…
The Relationship between Defense Spending and Economic Growth in the United States
Recent increases in U.S. defense spending have renewed interest in the defense—growth nexus. The Feder-Ram—based models have traditionally been used in examining this relationship, but Dunn, Smith, and Willenbockel recommend the augmented Solow model because of several weaknesses inherent in the Feder-Ram model (including its static nature, simultaneity bias, and multicollinearity issues). The augmented Solow model addresses these issues, but it …
The Impact of Democratic Transition on Elections and Parties in South Korea
With the 'third wave of democratization', South Korea joined the democracy club in the late 1980s. Although electoral performance and the party system have changed since the transition to democracy, there has been little systematic examination of the changes. In this article, we conduct an empirical test after developing a theoretical argument about why democratization leads to change. Before democratization, the manipulation of electoral laws an…
Military Expenditures, Technological Change, and Economic Growth in the East Asian NICs
In the last 30 years the East Asian NICs (Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand) have experienced significant economic and technological expansion alongside increases in military spending. We derive a production function model that is sensitive to both technological progress and the defense sector. We employ the model to assess the relationship between military spending, economic growth, and technological change in the East Asian…
Financial Crisis in South Korea: Failure of the Government-Led Development Paradigm
Research Article| May 01 2000 Financial Crisis in South Korea: Failure of the Government-Led Development Paradigm Uk Heo, Uk Heo Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Sunwoong Kim Sunwoong Kim Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2000) 40 (3): 492–507. https://doi.org/10.2307/3021158 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary D…
U.S. and Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis
East Asia has led the world in economic growth and export expansion in recent decades. The phenomenal rate of economic growth among the so‐called “four little tigers”—Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan—enabled them to achieve newly industrializing country (NIC) status in the 1980s, followed by Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Earlier studies explained the development from the government‐led development paradigm, or the so‐called the …
Who Pays for National Defense? Financing Defense Programs in the United States, 1947–2007
Past studies on military expenditures in the United States have primarily focused on the extent to which guns versus butter trade-offs are prevalent without examining this relationship in the context of how other fiscal policy tools are used to pay for defense. Using annual data from 1947–2007, this study examines the relative importance of defense financing policy measures, such as guns versus butter trade-offs, tax increases, and deficit spendi…
Defense Contracting and Domnestic Politics
Scholars have investigated the relationship between defense spending and domestic political constraints. Because of a two-year time lag, however, it is difficult to make a theoretical link between the aggregate defense budget and domestic politics. We focus on defense contract awards because of their rapid turn-around. We advance the referendum model to account for variations in the timing of defense contracts within administrations. The referend…
Democracy, Institutional Maturity, and Economic Development
Objective Despite a plethora of studies on the relationship between democracy and economic development, a dominant theoretical framework has yet to emerge. Economic development may lead to the transition to democracy and mature democratic institutions are likely to help economic development. Thus, in this article, we test the relationship among economic development, institutional maturity, and democracy. Methods In a recent study, Gerring et al. …
Paying for Security: The Security-Prosperity Dilemma in the United States
To investigate the direct and indirect effects of defense spending on economic growth, the authors develop a multilink (via investment, employment, and exports) defense-growth model and test it with U.S. data for the time period from 1951 to 2000. By doing so, they advance previous scholarship on the indirect effects of the defense-growth trade-off through both a theoretical and empirical investigation of multiple indirect channels. Using a nonli…
The US–ROK Alliance: Security Implications of the South Korea–US Free Trade Agreement
South Korea and the USA maintained a strong alliance relationship throughout the Cold War. However, changes in the international security environment surrounding the Korean peninsula with the end of the Cold War and changes among South Korean political elites brought about different perceptions of North Korea and the USA. These changes led to sharp turns in South Korea's policy toward the North and its relationship with the USA. The Seoul governm…
Modernization and the Military in Latin America
In the 1950s modernization began to be an important paradigm for Latin American development. Early modernization theory depicted the economies of Latin America as traditional and underdeveloped. The theme of technological progress runs consistently through the modernization model. The purpose of this article is to assess an important question raised by Latin American development studies: that large allocations for the military sector are conduciv…
Defense Spending and Economic Growth in South Korea: The Indirect Link
Due to the lingering food crisis, speculations about the collapse of the North Korean regime have intensified in recent years. The collapse of the North Korean regime is expected to generate a tremendous economic burden on the South Korean economy. Moreover, the current economic crisis in South Korea requires a tight fiscal policy. Thus, on the basis of the peace dividend argument, some suggest that South Korea should reduce its military expendit…
The First Female President in South Korea: Park Geun-hye's Leadership and South Korean Democracy
When Park Geun-hye was elected South Korea's first female president in 2012, many expected that South Korea's democracy would deepen. Contrary to the expectation, however, from the beginning of her administration, there were concerns about democracy retreating due to her leadership style/qualities. Despite her rather "undemocratic" leadership qualities, Park Geun-hye has consistently received 30% or higher job approval ratings until "Choi Soon-si…
Political Culture and Democratic Consolidation in South Korea
South Korea experienced democratization in 1987, yet violations of the democratic rule of law are rather common; such actions are far from routine practices of democratic institutions. We argue that South Korea’s political culture is the reason for the tardy maturing of democratic institutions
The Political Economy of U.S. Direct Investment in East Asian NICs, 1966–2000
This paper examines the role of FDI from the United States in the economic performance of East Asian NICs for 1966–2000. To this end, we draw our argument of the role of FDI from the modernization–dependency debate. Then, we test the economic effects of U.S. direct investment on economic growth in East Asian NICs using a neoclassical production function model that captures the economic impacts of both foreign and domestic investment on economic g…
Political Choices and Economic Outcomes: A Perspective on the Differential Impact of the Financial Crisis on South Korea and Taiwan
South Korea and Taiwan have gone through similar experience of political and economic development in the past several decades. Both countries have achieved miraculous economic developments under the government-led development paradigm and have gone through democratization process in the 1990s. Despite the similarity in developing history, the 1997 financial crisis experiences are quite different between the two countries. South Korea was hit hard…
The Political Economy of Defense Spending in South Korea
The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, as well as developments surrounding peace talks in the Korean peninsula, have led to public demands in South Korea for reductions in defense spending. Those favoring cutbacks argue that reductions in defense spending will stimulate a `peace dividend'. The opposition points to the recent nuclear crisis with North Korea as evidence of the need to maintain or even increase current lev…
U.S. Military Deployment and Host-Nation Economic Growth
Since the end of World War II, the U.S. military has deployed its troops all over the world for regional security and/or peace building. Despite the importance of its political, economic, and military impact on the region, few studies examined how U.S. military deployment overseas affects the host nation’s economy except Jones and Kane (2012) and Kane (2012). To help fill the gap in the literature, we tested how substantial U.S. troop deployment …
A Nested Game Approach to Political and Economic Liberalization in Democratizing States: The Case of South Korea
South Korea enjoyed high rates of economic growth until the mid-1990s. However in mid-1997 the country went into a severe economic crisis which ultimately resulted in a request for an IMF bailout. Leading up to the crisis, the government had embarked upon democratic liberalization but not much economic liberalization. This research explores why the government would lay the foundation for political reform with-out creating institutions capable of …
President Moon Jae-in at Midterm: What Affects Public Support for Moon Jae-in
Despite the unsuccessful outcomes of his policies on economic growth and North Korea, Moon Jae-in at midterm has received relatively high levels of job approval ratings compared to his immediate predecessors. What made it possible for him to maintain these ratings? To analyze this puzzle, we employed the three commonly noted leadership qualities-effective communication, political skill, and organizational capacity-suggested by presidential study …
South Korea in 2018
The biggest story of 2018 was a series of summit meetings between US President Donald Trump, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to discuss the denuclearization of North Korea. The income-led growth policies of the Moon Jae-in administration have not stimulated the economy
Economic Globalization and Democratic Development in East Asia: The Indirect Link
Over the past decades, East Asian states have enjoyed economic development and progress toward democracy through extensive economic transformation: trade and financial liberalization. To explain the theoretical mechanism of these variables, we investigate the direct and indirect effects of globalization on democratic development via economic development. To this end, a two-equation model is specified and estimated using data from 1972 to 2010 for…
Performance, leadership, factions and party change: An empirical analysis
This article reports the first empirical findings based on data from a major study of party change. Hypotheses are developed linking party change to both internal and external factors. The data provide support for the conclusion that electoral performance alone is not sufficient as an explanation for parties' decisions to change, and that new leaders and/or dominant factions may indeed make a difference. This leads the authors to suggest that 'th…
The Political Economy of Defense Spending in South Korea
The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, as well as developments surrounding peace talks in the Korean peninsula, have led to public demands in South Korea for reductions in defense spending. Those favoring cutbacks argue that reductions in defense spending will stimulate a `peace dividend'. The opposition points to the recent nuclear crisis with North Korea as evidence of the need to maintain or even increase current lev…
Military expenditures and economic growth in South Korea and Taiwan
It is generally believed that high levels of military expenditures hamper economic growth because it crowds out investment. Contrary to this popular belief, South Korea and Taiwan have achieved a miraculous economic development while maintaining heavy defense burden. In this study, we investigate how defense spending affects economic growth in these two countries employing the Mintz‐Huang model. The results reveal that there is no significant rel…
Military Expenditures, Technological Change, and Economic Growth in the East Asian NICs
In the last 30 years the East Asian NICs (Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand) have experienced significant economic and technological expansion alongside increases in military spending. We derive a production function model that is sensitive to both technological progress and the defense sector. We employ the model to assess the relationship between military spending, economic growth, and technological change in the East Asian…
Modeling the Defense-Growth Relationship around the Globe
One of the most important questions stemming from the end of the cold war is how reductions in defense spending will affect economic performance. This question has significant policy implications for countries facing public demands for defense cutbacks and countries still maintaining high levels of military spending for security. However, previous studies on the defense-growth relationship have reported mixed findings. Thus, this study investigat…
Defense Spending and Economic Growth in South Korea: The Indirect Link
Due to the lingering food crisis, speculations about the collapse of the North Korean regime have intensified in recent years. The collapse of the North Korean regime is expected to generate a tremendous economic burden on the South Korean economy. Moreover, the current economic crisis in South Korea requires a tight fiscal policy. Thus, on the basis of the peace dividend argument, some suggest that South Korea should reduce its military expendit…
Redirecting South Korean Security Policy
Financial Crisis in South Korea: Failure of the Government-Led Development Paradigm
Research Article| May 01 2000 Financial Crisis in South Korea: Failure of the Government-Led Development Paradigm Uk Heo, Uk Heo Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Sunwoong Kim Sunwoong Kim Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2000) 40 (3): 492–507. https://doi.org/10.2307/3021158 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary D…
Defense Contracting and Domestic Politics
Defense Contracting and Domnestic Politics
Scholars have investigated the relationship between defense spending and domestic political constraints. Because of a two-year time lag, however, it is difficult to make a theoretical link between the aggregate defense budget and domestic politics. We focus on defense contract awards because of their rapid turn-around. We advance the referendum model to account for variations in the timing of defense contracts within administrations. The referend…
An Analysis of South Korea's Policy Toward North Korea
Presidents and Defense Contracting, 1953-1992
We analyze the politics of the U.S. defense budget from 1953 to 1992. Institutional factors make it impractical for the president to use aggregate defense spending politically. For this reason, we focus on defense prime contract awards (PCA) because they are removed from public opinion, do not require congressional approval and can be precisely timed. We assess differences in contracting behavior between presidential administrations. The model we…
The U.S.- South Korea Alliance
Research Article| October 18 2001 THE U.S.- SOUTH KOREA ALLIANCE Jong-Sup Lee, Jong-Sup Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Uk Heo Uk Heo Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2001) 41 (5): 822–845. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2001.41.5.822 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Faceboo…
Democracy and Economic Growth: A Causal Analysis
Since Seymour Martin Lipset's seminal work on the socioeconomic prerequisites of democracy, a substantial number of social scientists has theorized and empirically tested theories about the relationship between democracy and economic development.1 Democratization's third wave has renewed interest in this relationship.2 This interest is evident in the increasing number of studies that explore the relationship of democracy to economic development.3…
Modernization and the Military in Latin America
In the 1950s modernization began to be an important paradigm for Latin American development. Early modernization theory depicted the economies of Latin America as traditional and underdeveloped. The theme of technological progress runs consistently through the modernization model. The purpose of this article is to assess an important question raised by Latin American development studies: that large allocations for the military sector are conduciv…
A Nested Game Approach to Political and Economic Liberalization in Democratizing States: The Case of South Korea
South Korea enjoyed high rates of economic growth until the mid-1990s. However in mid-1997 the country went into a severe economic crisis which ultimately resulted in a request for an IMF bailout. Leading up to the crisis, the government had embarked upon democratic liberalization but not much economic liberalization. This research explores why the government would lay the foundation for political reform with-out creating institutions capable of …
Political Choices and Economic Outcomes: A Perspective on the Differential Impact of the Financial Crisis on South Korea and Taiwan
South Korea and Taiwan have gone through similar experience of political and economic development in the past several decades. Both countries have achieved miraculous economic developments under the government-led development paradigm and have gone through democratization process in the 1990s. Despite the similarity in developing history, the 1997 financial crisis experiences are quite different between the two countries. South Korea was hit hard…
Analysis
The modernisation model of economic development assumed that foreign capital was a necessary catalyst for transforming societies. Dependency theorists, however, often point to its detrimental effects, especially in regard to economic domination. Much of the quantitative dependency literature has tended to focus on US foreign direct investment (FDI) in Latin America. Maintaining that line of inquiry, this article assesses the role of FDI in relati…
Power Parity, Alliance, Differential Growth, and Great Power Wars: An Empirical Research Note
Despite a volume of studies on the relationship between power distribution, the onset of war, and the impact of alliance and differential economic growth rate on the incidence of war, there is no strong conclusion about the issues. We reexamined the relationship between these variables and found that the differential growth rates in alliance-making affect the likelihood of war. This theoretically makes sense because nations are likely to try to i…
The Impact of Democratic Transition on Elections and Parties in South Korea
With the 'third wave of democratization', South Korea joined the democracy club in the late 1980s. Although electoral performance and the party system have changed since the transition to democracy, there has been little systematic examination of the changes. In this article, we conduct an empirical test after developing a theoretical argument about why democratization leads to change. Before democratization, the manipulation of electoral laws an…
Paying for Security: The Security-Prosperity Dilemma in the United States
To investigate the direct and indirect effects of defense spending on economic growth, the authors develop a multilink (via investment, employment, and exports) defense-growth model and test it with U.S. data for the time period from 1951 to 2000. By doing so, they advance previous scholarship on the indirect effects of the defense-growth trade-off through both a theoretical and empirical investigation of multiple indirect channels. Using a nonli…
Politics, Economics, and Defense Spending in South Korea
With the recent North Korean nuclear crisis, along with President Roh Moo Hyun’s emphasis on a self-reliance defense policy, the level of defense spending in South Korea has increased in recent years. Due to the sluggish economy, these increases in defense spending have been a cause for public concern. By developing a multilink defense-growth model based on macroeconomic theories while still accounting for political factors (such as transition fr…
Korean Security in a Changing East Asia
Since its partition in the 1950s, the Korean peninsula has directly or indirectly shaped the broader security relations between regional powerhouses, and the recent test of a nuclear weapon by the North Korean regime has heightened tensions across the world. This study draws upon contributions from a diverse array of experts who offer their perspectives on the region's complex network of alliances and hostilities. The authors discuss the future o…
Civil Wars of the World: Major Conflicts since World War II [2 volumes]
This unique two-volume reference is the most authoritative, up-to-date resource available for information and data on the most volatile civil wars around the globe since World War II. At a time when historians are devoting more and more research to conflicts within nations,Civil Wars of the World: Major Conflicts since World War IIis an invaluable addition to the available resources. In two volumes, it ranges around the globe to cover the most vo…
Identity and Change in East Asian Conflicts: The Cases of China, Taiwan, and the Koreas
This book examines the changing national identities that are transforming East Asia - pushing China and Taiwan apart and toward a showdown, while propping up a weakened North Korea. Accomplished contr
Political science (50 works) · Economics (48 works) · Politics (34 works) · Development economics (32 works) · Law (26 works) · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies (19 works) · Law (19 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (16 works) · Political economy (16 works) · Democracy (15 works)