Charles K Armstrong
Biographic Data
| ID | 267732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles K Armstrong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles K |
| FAMILY NAME | Armstrong |
| SIGNATURE | ARMSTRONG C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950
South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers
Despite having a population twice the size and an economy 40 times as large as North Korea’s, South Korea (the Republic of Korea, or ROK) consistently loses to the North when it comes to competition for international media attention. Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and its ongoing confrontation with the United States make for more exciting headlines, but South Korea’s position as the world’s 11th largest economy, successful democracy, and …
North Korea in 2016
Kim Jong Un further consolidated his leadership position at the Seventh Congress of the Workers’ Party in May, the first congress since 1980. Pyongyang conducted two nuclear tests and made advances in missile delivery, eliciting strong sanctions resolutions from the UN Security Council, first in March and again in November
Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia
Competing Visions of Regional Order: Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth Centuries 1. Korea in Japanese Visions of Regional Order, Takashi Inoguchi 2. Russian Views of Korea, China, and the Regional Order in Northeast Asia, Alexander Lukin 3. Civilization, Race, or Nation? Korean Visions of Regional Order in the Late Nineteenth Century, Hahm Chaibong 4. Trade, Dependency, and Colonialism: Foreign Trade and Korea's Regional Integration, 1876-1910, Kir…
Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World by Masuda Hajimu
Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and Postwar by Masuda Hajimu. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2015. vi, 388 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). The time has long past when 1950-1953 conflict in Korea could be called the forgotten Of course, war has never been forgotten on Korean peninsula itself, where a heavily fortified armistice line still separates two mutually hostile regimes more than sixty years after ceasefire. In China, Aid Korea, Resist …
The Seventieth Anniversary of World War II's End in Asia: Three Perspectives
Editor's Introduction: This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II, an event that had profound implications for many Asian countries. This "Asia Beyond the Headlines" feature focuses on the impact that the Japanese surrender, which came several months after the German one, had across East Asia. I put a series of questions to three scholars-modern Japan historian Carol Gluck, China specialist Rana Mitter, and Koreanist Ch…
Sino-American negotiations on Korea and Kissinger's UN diplomacy
During a three-year period between 1972 and 1975, Henry Kissinger, first as national security adviser and subsequently as secretary of state, played a leading role not generally recognised as the principal architect of a new US security policy toward Korea based on Sino-American rapprochement, providing for the termination of the US-led UN Command contingent on ‘alternative armistice arrangements’. Although not implemented at the time, Kissinger'…
Illusions of Autonomy and the Autonomy of Illusions
The Koreas
Presenting a succinct, historically informed introduction to North and South Korea, the second edition of The Koreas considers the radically different ways these countries have dealt with the growing challenges of globalization. Since the first edition's publication, the economic, political, and social differences have only intensified, making evident the relevancy and importance of Armstrong's work, in understanding the Koreas now and in the fut…
Never Some Easy Flashback”
This paper provides a close reading of Paul Farley’s 160-line poem, “Thorns.” The poem is read in dialogue with William Wordsworth’s celebrated Romantic ballad “The Thorn.” Special attention is given to Farley’s treatment of memory and metaphor: It is shown how the first, exploratory part of the poem elaborates upon the interdependent nature of memory and metaphor, while the second part uses a more regulated form of imagery in its evocation of a …
The Korean Peninsula on the Verge
It has become apparent that a policy of isolation, sanctions, lack of dialogue, and ‘strategic patience’ has not worked to weaken North Korea or alter its behavior, much less bring the regime down
Trends in the Study of North Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il can be criticized for many failings, but if one of his goals has been keeping his country in the global media spotlight, he has been wildly successful. Of course, North Korea gets this international attention for all the wrong reasons: military provocations, a clandestine nuclear program, a bankrupt economy, an atrocious record on human rights, and an eccentric if not deranged leadership. Some of the accusations le…
Kang Ho-je, Pukhan kwahak kisul hyŏngsŏngsa I [History of Science and Technology in North Korea I]: 북한 과학 기술 형성사
Despite Kim Jong Il's call for an “IT revolution” in North Korea some 10 years ago, North Korea is not exactly world-renown for its scientific and technological expertise. To the extent that North
The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea, 1950 - 1960
This article is part of an ongoing series at The Asia-Pacific Journal commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the US-Korean War
Contesting the Peninsula
Heightened insecurity and inequality as outcomes of a decade of centre-left rule in South Korea. Can neoliberalism advance further across the ROK’s shifting political terrain, as a newly elected President’s popularity crumbles in face of public resentment
North Korea Takes on the World
The road ahead for Korean denuclearization and the normalization of us-North Korean relations promises to be bumpy and unpredictable
Korean Society
Familism, Socialism and Political Religion in North Korea
In the eighth volume of Kim Il Sung’s ‘autobiography’, published posthumously in 1998, Kim attributes the successful development of the Soviet Union into a great power to the wise leadership of Sta
Divided Korea at Sixty
Sixty years after the end of World War II, Korea remains the last country divided by the post‐war Allied settlement. Recently new evidence and interpretations have invigorated a number of debates about this history: the question of how Korea became divided into two states between 1945 and 1948; the causes and conduct of the Korean War; and the reasons for Korea's continued division, and in particular the nature and survivability of the North Kore…
South Korea and the United States Sixty Years On
September 8, 2005, marks the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival of US soldiers on the Korean peninsula to accept the surrender of Japanese forces. There will likely be little fanfare accompanying this event. At the end of World War II, Koreans viewed the Soviets and the Americans equally as liberators, and neither occupation force was expected to stay long on Korean soil. The special relationship between South Korea and the United States was for…
The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950
The Cultural Cold War in Korea, 1945-1950
By definition, the cold war was understood on both sides of the conflict to be a global struggle that stopped short of direct military engagement between the superpowers (the U.S. and the USSR). In Europe, the putative center ofthat struggle, the geopolitical battle lines were fixed after the early 1950s, or they at least could not be altered by normal military means without provoking World War III-which would result in mutual annihilation. There…
Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy and the State
Introduction: in Contemporary Korea Charles K. Armstrong 1. in West and East Bruce Cumings 2. The Problematic Modernity of Confucianism: The Question of Civil Society in Choson Dynasty Korea John Duncan 3. The Genealogy of Confucian Moralpolitik Sangjun Kim 4. and Democratization Sunhyuk Kim 5. Engendering Society: The Role of the Labour Movement Hagen Koo 6. Carving Out a Space: and the Women's Movement Seungsook Moon 7. The South Korean Student…
Surveillance and Punishment in Postliberation North Korea
South Korea's ‘northern policy’
The Cultural Cold War in Korea, 1945-1950
By definition, the cold war was understood on both sides of the conflict to be a global struggle that stopped short of direct military engagement between the superpowers (the U.S. and the USSR). In Europe, the putative center ofthat struggle, the geopolitical battle lines were fixed after the early 1950s, or they at least could not be altered by normal military means without provoking World War III-which would result in mutual annihilation. There…
The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950
Trends in the Study of North Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il can be criticized for many failings, but if one of his goals has been keeping his country in the global media spotlight, he has been wildly successful. Of course, North Korea gets this international attention for all the wrong reasons: military provocations, a clandestine nuclear program, a bankrupt economy, an atrocious record on human rights, and an eccentric if not deranged leadership. Some of the accusations le…
Surveillance and Punishment in Postliberation North Korea
South Korea's ‘northern policy’
The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea, 1950 - 1960
This article is part of an ongoing series at The Asia-Pacific Journal commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the US-Korean War
South Korea's ‘northern policy’
Surveillance and Punishment in Postliberation North Korea
Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy and the State
Introduction: in Contemporary Korea Charles K. Armstrong 1. in West and East Bruce Cumings 2. The Problematic Modernity of Confucianism: The Question of Civil Society in Choson Dynasty Korea John Duncan 3. The Genealogy of Confucian Moralpolitik Sangjun Kim 4. and Democratization Sunhyuk Kim 5. Engendering Society: The Role of the Labour Movement Hagen Koo 6. Carving Out a Space: and the Women's Movement Seungsook Moon 7. The South Korean Student…
The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950
The Cultural Cold War in Korea, 1945-1950
By definition, the cold war was understood on both sides of the conflict to be a global struggle that stopped short of direct military engagement between the superpowers (the U.S. and the USSR). In Europe, the putative center ofthat struggle, the geopolitical battle lines were fixed after the early 1950s, or they at least could not be altered by normal military means without provoking World War III-which would result in mutual annihilation. There…
Familism, Socialism and Political Religion in North Korea
In the eighth volume of Kim Il Sung’s ‘autobiography’, published posthumously in 1998, Kim attributes the successful development of the Soviet Union into a great power to the wise leadership of Sta
Divided Korea at Sixty
Sixty years after the end of World War II, Korea remains the last country divided by the post‐war Allied settlement. Recently new evidence and interpretations have invigorated a number of debates about this history: the question of how Korea became divided into two states between 1945 and 1948; the causes and conduct of the Korean War; and the reasons for Korea's continued division, and in particular the nature and survivability of the North Kore…
South Korea and the United States Sixty Years On
September 8, 2005, marks the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival of US soldiers on the Korean peninsula to accept the surrender of Japanese forces. There will likely be little fanfare accompanying this event. At the end of World War II, Koreans viewed the Soviets and the Americans equally as liberators, and neither occupation force was expected to stay long on Korean soil. The special relationship between South Korea and the United States was for…
Korean Society
North Korea Takes on the World
The road ahead for Korean denuclearization and the normalization of us-North Korean relations promises to be bumpy and unpredictable
Contesting the Peninsula
Heightened insecurity and inequality as outcomes of a decade of centre-left rule in South Korea. Can neoliberalism advance further across the ROK’s shifting political terrain, as a newly elected President’s popularity crumbles in face of public resentment
Kang Ho-je, Pukhan kwahak kisul hyŏngsŏngsa I [History of Science and Technology in North Korea I]: 북한 과학 기술 형성사
Despite Kim Jong Il's call for an “IT revolution” in North Korea some 10 years ago, North Korea is not exactly world-renown for its scientific and technological expertise. To the extent that North
The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea, 1950 - 1960
This article is part of an ongoing series at The Asia-Pacific Journal commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the US-Korean War
The Korean Peninsula on the Verge
It has become apparent that a policy of isolation, sanctions, lack of dialogue, and ‘strategic patience’ has not worked to weaken North Korea or alter its behavior, much less bring the regime down
Trends in the Study of North Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il can be criticized for many failings, but if one of his goals has been keeping his country in the global media spotlight, he has been wildly successful. Of course, North Korea gets this international attention for all the wrong reasons: military provocations, a clandestine nuclear program, a bankrupt economy, an atrocious record on human rights, and an eccentric if not deranged leadership. Some of the accusations le…
Never Some Easy Flashback”
This paper provides a close reading of Paul Farley’s 160-line poem, “Thorns.” The poem is read in dialogue with William Wordsworth’s celebrated Romantic ballad “The Thorn.” Special attention is given to Farley’s treatment of memory and metaphor: It is shown how the first, exploratory part of the poem elaborates upon the interdependent nature of memory and metaphor, while the second part uses a more regulated form of imagery in its evocation of a …
The Koreas
Presenting a succinct, historically informed introduction to North and South Korea, the second edition of The Koreas considers the radically different ways these countries have dealt with the growing challenges of globalization. Since the first edition's publication, the economic, political, and social differences have only intensified, making evident the relevancy and importance of Armstrong's work, in understanding the Koreas now and in the fut…
Sino-American negotiations on Korea and Kissinger's UN diplomacy
During a three-year period between 1972 and 1975, Henry Kissinger, first as national security adviser and subsequently as secretary of state, played a leading role not generally recognised as the principal architect of a new US security policy toward Korea based on Sino-American rapprochement, providing for the termination of the US-led UN Command contingent on ‘alternative armistice arrangements’. Although not implemented at the time, Kissinger'…
Illusions of Autonomy and the Autonomy of Illusions
The Seventieth Anniversary of World War II's End in Asia: Three Perspectives
Editor's Introduction: This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II, an event that had profound implications for many Asian countries. This "Asia Beyond the Headlines" feature focuses on the impact that the Japanese surrender, which came several months after the German one, had across East Asia. I put a series of questions to three scholars-modern Japan historian Carol Gluck, China specialist Rana Mitter, and Koreanist Ch…
Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia
Competing Visions of Regional Order: Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth Centuries 1. Korea in Japanese Visions of Regional Order, Takashi Inoguchi 2. Russian Views of Korea, China, and the Regional Order in Northeast Asia, Alexander Lukin 3. Civilization, Race, or Nation? Korean Visions of Regional Order in the Late Nineteenth Century, Hahm Chaibong 4. Trade, Dependency, and Colonialism: Foreign Trade and Korea's Regional Integration, 1876-1910, Kir…
Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World by Masuda Hajimu
Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and Postwar by Masuda Hajimu. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2015. vi, 388 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). The time has long past when 1950-1953 conflict in Korea could be called the forgotten Of course, war has never been forgotten on Korean peninsula itself, where a heavily fortified armistice line still separates two mutually hostile regimes more than sixty years after ceasefire. In China, Aid Korea, Resist …
North Korea in 2016
Kim Jong Un further consolidated his leadership position at the Seventh Congress of the Workers’ Party in May, the first congress since 1980. Pyongyang conducted two nuclear tests and made advances in missile delivery, eliciting strong sanctions resolutions from the UN Security Council, first in March and again in November
The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950
South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers
Despite having a population twice the size and an economy 40 times as large as North Korea’s, South Korea (the Republic of Korea, or ROK) consistently loses to the North when it comes to competition for international media attention. Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and its ongoing confrontation with the United States make for more exciting headlines, but South Korea’s position as the world’s 11th largest economy, successful democracy, and …
Political science (20 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (17 works) · History (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Economic history (9 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works)