Chung-In Moon
Biographic Data
| ID | 275302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chung-In Moon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chung-In |
| FAMILY NAME | Moon |
| SIGNATURE | MOON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chung-in Moon is Professor of Political Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Asean Regional Forum’s Experts and Eminent Persons Group: Achievements, Limitations, Prospects
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum has introduced the Experts and Eminent Persons system as a security affairs–related epistemic community in Asia Pacific. However, its performance has remained rather stagnant. This article assesses its performance by examining achievements and limitations of the system and identifies barriers to its effective functioning. The findings attribute its dismal performance to skewed composition …
Democratic Transition, Persistent Civilian Control over the Military, and the South Korean Anomaly
South Korea's civilian control over the military has been amazingly stable, and no signs of political moves by the military have ever been detected since 1993. Given the frequency of military's intervention in civil politics and a relatively long duration of military rule, such civil-military relations seem quite anomalous. The article argues that the persistent civilian control over the military was an outcome of path-dependency of the military …
Park Chung Hee, the US-ROK Strategic Relationship, and the Bomb
Declassified US Embassy Seoul cables related to nuclear proliferation during the Park Chung Hee era show that, far from making South Korea more secure, Park's toying with the nuclear option made him an unpredictable and even dangerous client who needed restraint in the eyes of US policymakers
South Korea in 2009: From Setbacks to Reversal
Despite political setbacks, aftershocks of the global financial crisis, and the continuing North Korean nuclear quagmire, the Lee Myung-bak government made dramatic reversals in 2009. But winning local elections, forging national unity, sustaining economic growth, and managing the North Korean question will remain daunting challenges throughout 2010
Military Spending and the Arms Race on the Korean Peninsula
The Korean War technically ended in 1953 with the signing of an armistice agreement. But not only has there been no peace treaty, but inter-Korean military confrontation and heightened tension have continued, often resulting in overt military clashes. Defying the new security architecture followed by the demise of the Cold War system, the Korean peninsula still remains as its last relic without any clear signs of conflict termination. Suspicion a…
South Korea in 2008: From Crisis to Crisis
The launching of the Lee Myung-bak (known as “MB”) government in February 2008, coupled with the landslide victory by the ruling Grand National Party in the April 9 general election, opened a new era of conservative dominance while ending a decade of progressive rule. But the triumphant mood did not last long, as the MB government encountered a series of political, economic, and social crises as well as setbacks in its foreign and inter-Korean re…
The North Korean Nuclear Crisis Revisited: The Case for a Negotiated Settlement
Despite the Kim Dae-jung government's active pursuit of its 'sunshine policy', the Korean peninsula is once again caught up in a major nuclear crisis. The current crisis emerged when Pyongyang revealed that it was conducting a uranium-enriched nuclear weapons program in violation of the Geneva Agreed Framework of 1994. The new development suggests the Pyongyang regime's continuing reliance on a pattern of raising stakes for political and economic…
Korea After the Crash
Korea After the Crash Jongryn Mo (bio) and Chung-in Moon (bio) The Asian economic crisis hit South Korea when its nascent democracy was still struggling to take hold. The new president, Kim Dae Jung, elected at the height of the economic crisis in December 1997, faced the formidable challenges of economic reform and democratic consolidation. His predecessor, Kim Young Sam (1993–98), had failed to meet these challenges under more favorable economi…
History, Cognition, and Peace in East Asia
Japanese colonialism and Korean development: A critique
New scholarship on economic development in Korea has focused on the beneficial effects of Japanese colonialism and on certain continuities between Korea's growth strategy before and after World War II. We challenge this new revisionism. The growth record under the Japanese occupation was more modest than is often thought, there are greater discontinuities than continuities between the colonial and postwar eras, and political independence was an i…
Korean Options in a Changing International Order
Korea Briefing, 1992
The Transition to Export-led Growth in South Korea: 1954-1966
Two basic positions have framed recent debates about South Korea's remarkable economic growth. The neoclassical position traces South Korea's take-off to a set of policy reforms in 1964 and 1965 that launched the country on the path toward export-led growth (Frank, Kim, and Westphal 1975; Kuznets 1977; Krueger 1979). Policy was far from laissez-faire, but on the whole, the reforms moved Korea in a more market-oriented direction that sought to exp…
Land of the Morning Calm: Korea and American Security
Pacific Dynamics: The International Politics of Industrial Change
The United States and the Defense of the Pacific
Institutions and Economic Policy: Theory and a Korean Case Study
Recent writing on the rapid growth of the East Asian newly industrializing countries—Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore—has been dominated by an institutionalist perspective that focuses on the “strength” of the state vis-à-vis societal actors. A study of Korea's stabilization efforts in the 1980s underlines the importance of organizational factors in explaining policy outcomes, but also suggests important limits on institutionalist argument…
Korea-U.S. Relations: The Politics of Trade and Security
South Korea and the United States: A Conference Report
Complex Interdependence and Transnational Lobbying: South Korea in the United States
With the rise of interdependence, transnational lobbying has emerged as an important instrument of bilateral bargaining among nations. I construct a typology of transnational lobbying based on four variables: power, knowledge, mutual interests, and ethnic and ideological ties. A case study of South Korea's lobbying in the United States is employed to examine how, and under what conditions, these different lobbying strategies are adopted, and to w…
Institutions and Economic Policy: Theory and a Korean Case Study
Recent writing on the rapid growth of the East Asian newly industrializing countries—Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore—has been dominated by an institutionalist perspective that focuses on the “strength” of the state vis-à-vis societal actors. A study of Korea's stabilization efforts in the 1980s underlines the importance of organizational factors in explaining policy outcomes, but also suggests important limits on institutionalist argument…
Japanese colonialism and Korean development: A critique
New scholarship on economic development in Korea has focused on the beneficial effects of Japanese colonialism and on certain continuities between Korea's growth strategy before and after World War II. We challenge this new revisionism. The growth record under the Japanese occupation was more modest than is often thought, there are greater discontinuities than continuities between the colonial and postwar eras, and political independence was an i…
Korea After the Crash
Korea After the Crash Jongryn Mo (bio) and Chung-in Moon (bio) The Asian economic crisis hit South Korea when its nascent democracy was still struggling to take hold. The new president, Kim Dae Jung, elected at the height of the economic crisis in December 1997, faced the formidable challenges of economic reform and democratic consolidation. His predecessor, Kim Young Sam (1993–98), had failed to meet these challenges under more favorable economi…
The Transition to Export-led Growth in South Korea: 1954-1966
Two basic positions have framed recent debates about South Korea's remarkable economic growth. The neoclassical position traces South Korea's take-off to a set of policy reforms in 1964 and 1965 that launched the country on the path toward export-led growth (Frank, Kim, and Westphal 1975; Kuznets 1977; Krueger 1979). Policy was far from laissez-faire, but on the whole, the reforms moved Korea in a more market-oriented direction that sought to exp…
Complex Interdependence and Transnational Lobbying: South Korea in the United States
With the rise of interdependence, transnational lobbying has emerged as an important instrument of bilateral bargaining among nations. I construct a typology of transnational lobbying based on four variables: power, knowledge, mutual interests, and ethnic and ideological ties. A case study of South Korea's lobbying in the United States is employed to examine how, and under what conditions, these different lobbying strategies are adopted, and to w…
The North Korean Nuclear Crisis Revisited: The Case for a Negotiated Settlement
Despite the Kim Dae-jung government's active pursuit of its 'sunshine policy', the Korean peninsula is once again caught up in a major nuclear crisis. The current crisis emerged when Pyongyang revealed that it was conducting a uranium-enriched nuclear weapons program in violation of the Geneva Agreed Framework of 1994. The new development suggests the Pyongyang regime's continuing reliance on a pattern of raising stakes for political and economic…
Democratic Transition, Persistent Civilian Control over the Military, and the South Korean Anomaly
South Korea's civilian control over the military has been amazingly stable, and no signs of political moves by the military have ever been detected since 1993. Given the frequency of military's intervention in civil politics and a relatively long duration of military rule, such civil-military relations seem quite anomalous. The article argues that the persistent civilian control over the military was an outcome of path-dependency of the military …
The Asean Regional Forum’s Experts and Eminent Persons Group: Achievements, Limitations, Prospects
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum has introduced the Experts and Eminent Persons system as a security affairs–related epistemic community in Asia Pacific. However, its performance has remained rather stagnant. This article assesses its performance by examining achievements and limitations of the system and identifies barriers to its effective functioning. The findings attribute its dismal performance to skewed composition …
South Korea in 2009: From Setbacks to Reversal
Despite political setbacks, aftershocks of the global financial crisis, and the continuing North Korean nuclear quagmire, the Lee Myung-bak government made dramatic reversals in 2009. But winning local elections, forging national unity, sustaining economic growth, and managing the North Korean question will remain daunting challenges throughout 2010
Military Spending and the Arms Race on the Korean Peninsula
The Korean War technically ended in 1953 with the signing of an armistice agreement. But not only has there been no peace treaty, but inter-Korean military confrontation and heightened tension have continued, often resulting in overt military clashes. Defying the new security architecture followed by the demise of the Cold War system, the Korean peninsula still remains as its last relic without any clear signs of conflict termination. Suspicion a…
Complex Interdependence and Transnational Lobbying: South Korea in the United States
With the rise of interdependence, transnational lobbying has emerged as an important instrument of bilateral bargaining among nations. I construct a typology of transnational lobbying based on four variables: power, knowledge, mutual interests, and ethnic and ideological ties. A case study of South Korea's lobbying in the United States is employed to examine how, and under what conditions, these different lobbying strategies are adopted, and to w…
Korea-U.S. Relations: The Politics of Trade and Security
South Korea and the United States: A Conference Report
The United States and the Defense of the Pacific
Institutions and Economic Policy: Theory and a Korean Case Study
Recent writing on the rapid growth of the East Asian newly industrializing countries—Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore—has been dominated by an institutionalist perspective that focuses on the “strength” of the state vis-à-vis societal actors. A study of Korea's stabilization efforts in the 1980s underlines the importance of organizational factors in explaining policy outcomes, but also suggests important limits on institutionalist argument…
The Transition to Export-led Growth in South Korea: 1954-1966
Two basic positions have framed recent debates about South Korea's remarkable economic growth. The neoclassical position traces South Korea's take-off to a set of policy reforms in 1964 and 1965 that launched the country on the path toward export-led growth (Frank, Kim, and Westphal 1975; Kuznets 1977; Krueger 1979). Policy was far from laissez-faire, but on the whole, the reforms moved Korea in a more market-oriented direction that sought to exp…
Land of the Morning Calm: Korea and American Security
Pacific Dynamics: The International Politics of Industrial Change
Korea Briefing, 1992
Korean Options in a Changing International Order
Japanese colonialism and Korean development: A critique
New scholarship on economic development in Korea has focused on the beneficial effects of Japanese colonialism and on certain continuities between Korea's growth strategy before and after World War II. We challenge this new revisionism. The growth record under the Japanese occupation was more modest than is often thought, there are greater discontinuities than continuities between the colonial and postwar eras, and political independence was an i…
Korea After the Crash
Korea After the Crash Jongryn Mo (bio) and Chung-in Moon (bio) The Asian economic crisis hit South Korea when its nascent democracy was still struggling to take hold. The new president, Kim Dae Jung, elected at the height of the economic crisis in December 1997, faced the formidable challenges of economic reform and democratic consolidation. His predecessor, Kim Young Sam (1993–98), had failed to meet these challenges under more favorable economi…
History, Cognition, and Peace in East Asia
The North Korean Nuclear Crisis Revisited: The Case for a Negotiated Settlement
Despite the Kim Dae-jung government's active pursuit of its 'sunshine policy', the Korean peninsula is once again caught up in a major nuclear crisis. The current crisis emerged when Pyongyang revealed that it was conducting a uranium-enriched nuclear weapons program in violation of the Geneva Agreed Framework of 1994. The new development suggests the Pyongyang regime's continuing reliance on a pattern of raising stakes for political and economic…
South Korea in 2008: From Crisis to Crisis
The launching of the Lee Myung-bak (known as “MB”) government in February 2008, coupled with the landslide victory by the ruling Grand National Party in the April 9 general election, opened a new era of conservative dominance while ending a decade of progressive rule. But the triumphant mood did not last long, as the MB government encountered a series of political, economic, and social crises as well as setbacks in its foreign and inter-Korean re…
South Korea in 2009: From Setbacks to Reversal
Despite political setbacks, aftershocks of the global financial crisis, and the continuing North Korean nuclear quagmire, the Lee Myung-bak government made dramatic reversals in 2009. But winning local elections, forging national unity, sustaining economic growth, and managing the North Korean question will remain daunting challenges throughout 2010
Military Spending and the Arms Race on the Korean Peninsula
The Korean War technically ended in 1953 with the signing of an armistice agreement. But not only has there been no peace treaty, but inter-Korean military confrontation and heightened tension have continued, often resulting in overt military clashes. Defying the new security architecture followed by the demise of the Cold War system, the Korean peninsula still remains as its last relic without any clear signs of conflict termination. Suspicion a…
Democratic Transition, Persistent Civilian Control over the Military, and the South Korean Anomaly
South Korea's civilian control over the military has been amazingly stable, and no signs of political moves by the military have ever been detected since 1993. Given the frequency of military's intervention in civil politics and a relatively long duration of military rule, such civil-military relations seem quite anomalous. The article argues that the persistent civilian control over the military was an outcome of path-dependency of the military …
Park Chung Hee, the US-ROK Strategic Relationship, and the Bomb
Declassified US Embassy Seoul cables related to nuclear proliferation during the Park Chung Hee era show that, far from making South Korea more secure, Park's toying with the nuclear option made him an unpredictable and even dangerous client who needed restraint in the eyes of US policymakers
The Asean Regional Forum’s Experts and Eminent Persons Group: Achievements, Limitations, Prospects
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum has introduced the Experts and Eminent Persons system as a security affairs–related epistemic community in Asia Pacific. However, its performance has remained rather stagnant. This article assesses its performance by examining achievements and limitations of the system and identifies barriers to its effective functioning. The findings attribute its dismal performance to skewed composition …
Political science (19 works) · Law (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (8 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (7 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Sociology (6 works)