Taesuh Cha
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Taesuh Cha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Taesuh |
| FAMILY NAME | Cha |
| SIGNATURE | CHA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5186-3207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Louis Hartz trap redux
The End of Middle Power Diplomacy in the Post-Unipolar Moment? The Historicization of Middle Power Discourses and the Paradigm Shift in South Korean Grand Strategy
본 연구는 한국의 국제정치학계와 외교정책 서클에서 널리 사용되어온 중견국 개념을 특수한 역사적 시공간에서 생산된 언어로서 담론분석의 대상으로 삼아야 할 시기가 도래했다는 입장에서 출발한다. 특히 비강대국 연구분과의 주류를 차지해온 기존 중견국 연구의 기본전제들이 더 이상 우리가 살고 있는 탈단극 시대에는 지속 불가능하다는 점에 주목한다. 중견국가들의 주된 활동공간이라고 할 수 있는 다자주의 무대 자체가 축소되고 강대국간 경쟁이 부각되면서, 소위 “중견국의 시기”라는 국제정치사의 예외적 국면 자체가 종식 중이기 때문이다이와 같은 사태의 전개는 비강대국 연구의 패러다임 변동이 불가피해졌음을 의미한다. 과거 자유세계질서 내 중견국 연구의 틀로 담아낼 수 없는 새로운 현상들을 포착할 새로운 연구프로젝트의 개발이 요구되고 있는 것이다. 이에 본문에서는 우선 중견국 개념의 지식사회학적 접근을 통해 해당 담…
Contending American Visions of North Korea
This article aims to situate US–DPRK relations in a broader historical and theoretical context, that is, part of the violent encounters between the West and the ‘Rest’ in modern times, to examine discursive causes of their animosity and devise preliminary solutions to usher in peace and reconciliation in the Korean Peninsula. Drawing on a postcolonial reading of the liberal internationalist project and the global nuclear order, as well as a refle…
Is anybody still a globalist? Rereading the trajectory of US grand strategy and the end of the transnational moment
After the two-fold crises of the liberal world order in the first decade of the twenty-first century, including the debacle of the Global War on Terror and the global financial crisis around 2008, we are witnessing a combined crisis of US hegemony and the transnational moment, along with the explosion of populism across the Atlantic world. In this context, this research not only analyses how the United States has designed and maintained the liber…
Competing visions of a postmodern world order
This article analyses competing discourses on a postmodern world order perpetuated by the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which are themselves built on their own pre-modern or early modern (inter)state models. Among several dimensions of the growing struggle between the two superpowers, this article focuses on their contestation of global norms or the standard of civilization regarding the question of world governance. Wha…
Republic or empire
Re-reading Friedrich Hayek and Karl Polanyi in the Late-Modern Condition of Fragility
The cardinal role of complexity in Friedrich Hayek’s theory of the market has hardly gone unnoticed. Indeed, there is now a considerable corpus of literature that has established the importance of spontaneity as a central concept around which neoliberal economic theory revolves. However, as William Connolly analyzes, its closed conception of economic processes simplifies real economic volatilities and ignores both modes of self-organization and c…
The Return of Jacksonianism
The rise of President-elect, Donald J. Trump, and his unconventional policy remarks have inspired alarm across the political spectrum in the United States and throughout the world. Even though a ce
American Exceptionalism at the Crossroads
Unlike the immediate post-Cold War era of triumphalism and neoliberal prosperity, the last decade has witnessed the erosion of the ‘unipolar moment’ after the major setbacks of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and the financial crisis of 2008. In this context, reconsidering the idea of American exceptional identity is not simply a scholastic exercise, but an urgent practical problem concerning the direction of US leadership in the world. This articl…
The formation of American exceptional identities
The dominant structuralist/materialist schema in International Relations accords little importance to the domestic ideational base of the state in its concern to explain the pattern of foreign policy. In contrast, my article, following the tenets of unit-level constructivism, asks how American identity was formed, contested, and manifested through its interaction with two significant others — the European empires and the Native Americans — in the…
The formation of American exceptional identities
The dominant structuralist/materialist schema in International Relations accords little importance to the domestic ideational base of the state in its concern to explain the pattern of foreign policy. In contrast, my article, following the tenets of unit-level constructivism, asks how American identity was formed, contested, and manifested through its interaction with two significant others — the European empires and the Native Americans — in the…
The Return of Jacksonianism
The rise of President-elect, Donald J. Trump, and his unconventional policy remarks have inspired alarm across the political spectrum in the United States and throughout the world. Even though a ce
American Exceptionalism at the Crossroads
Unlike the immediate post-Cold War era of triumphalism and neoliberal prosperity, the last decade has witnessed the erosion of the ‘unipolar moment’ after the major setbacks of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and the financial crisis of 2008. In this context, reconsidering the idea of American exceptional identity is not simply a scholastic exercise, but an urgent practical problem concerning the direction of US leadership in the world. This articl…
Competing visions of a postmodern world order
This article analyses competing discourses on a postmodern world order perpetuated by the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which are themselves built on their own pre-modern or early modern (inter)state models. Among several dimensions of the growing struggle between the two superpowers, this article focuses on their contestation of global norms or the standard of civilization regarding the question of world governance. Wha…
Is anybody still a globalist? Rereading the trajectory of US grand strategy and the end of the transnational moment
After the two-fold crises of the liberal world order in the first decade of the twenty-first century, including the debacle of the Global War on Terror and the global financial crisis around 2008, we are witnessing a combined crisis of US hegemony and the transnational moment, along with the explosion of populism across the Atlantic world. In this context, this research not only analyses how the United States has designed and maintained the liber…
Re-reading Friedrich Hayek and Karl Polanyi in the Late-Modern Condition of Fragility
The cardinal role of complexity in Friedrich Hayek’s theory of the market has hardly gone unnoticed. Indeed, there is now a considerable corpus of literature that has established the importance of spontaneity as a central concept around which neoliberal economic theory revolves. However, as William Connolly analyzes, its closed conception of economic processes simplifies real economic volatilities and ignores both modes of self-organization and c…
American Exceptionalism at the Crossroads
Unlike the immediate post-Cold War era of triumphalism and neoliberal prosperity, the last decade has witnessed the erosion of the ‘unipolar moment’ after the major setbacks of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and the financial crisis of 2008. In this context, reconsidering the idea of American exceptional identity is not simply a scholastic exercise, but an urgent practical problem concerning the direction of US leadership in the world. This articl…
The formation of American exceptional identities
The dominant structuralist/materialist schema in International Relations accords little importance to the domestic ideational base of the state in its concern to explain the pattern of foreign policy. In contrast, my article, following the tenets of unit-level constructivism, asks how American identity was formed, contested, and manifested through its interaction with two significant others — the European empires and the Native Americans — in the…
The Return of Jacksonianism
The rise of President-elect, Donald J. Trump, and his unconventional policy remarks have inspired alarm across the political spectrum in the United States and throughout the world. Even though a ce
Republic or empire
Re-reading Friedrich Hayek and Karl Polanyi in the Late-Modern Condition of Fragility
The cardinal role of complexity in Friedrich Hayek’s theory of the market has hardly gone unnoticed. Indeed, there is now a considerable corpus of literature that has established the importance of spontaneity as a central concept around which neoliberal economic theory revolves. However, as William Connolly analyzes, its closed conception of economic processes simplifies real economic volatilities and ignores both modes of self-organization and c…
Competing visions of a postmodern world order
This article analyses competing discourses on a postmodern world order perpetuated by the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which are themselves built on their own pre-modern or early modern (inter)state models. Among several dimensions of the growing struggle between the two superpowers, this article focuses on their contestation of global norms or the standard of civilization regarding the question of world governance. Wha…
Is anybody still a globalist? Rereading the trajectory of US grand strategy and the end of the transnational moment
After the two-fold crises of the liberal world order in the first decade of the twenty-first century, including the debacle of the Global War on Terror and the global financial crisis around 2008, we are witnessing a combined crisis of US hegemony and the transnational moment, along with the explosion of populism across the Atlantic world. In this context, this research not only analyses how the United States has designed and maintained the liber…
The End of Middle Power Diplomacy in the Post-Unipolar Moment? The Historicization of Middle Power Discourses and the Paradigm Shift in South Korean Grand Strategy
본 연구는 한국의 국제정치학계와 외교정책 서클에서 널리 사용되어온 중견국 개념을 특수한 역사적 시공간에서 생산된 언어로서 담론분석의 대상으로 삼아야 할 시기가 도래했다는 입장에서 출발한다. 특히 비강대국 연구분과의 주류를 차지해온 기존 중견국 연구의 기본전제들이 더 이상 우리가 살고 있는 탈단극 시대에는 지속 불가능하다는 점에 주목한다. 중견국가들의 주된 활동공간이라고 할 수 있는 다자주의 무대 자체가 축소되고 강대국간 경쟁이 부각되면서, 소위 “중견국의 시기”라는 국제정치사의 예외적 국면 자체가 종식 중이기 때문이다이와 같은 사태의 전개는 비강대국 연구의 패러다임 변동이 불가피해졌음을 의미한다. 과거 자유세계질서 내 중견국 연구의 틀로 담아낼 수 없는 새로운 현상들을 포착할 새로운 연구프로젝트의 개발이 요구되고 있는 것이다. 이에 본문에서는 우선 중견국 개념의 지식사회학적 접근을 통해 해당 담…
Contending American Visions of North Korea
This article aims to situate US–DPRK relations in a broader historical and theoretical context, that is, part of the violent encounters between the West and the ‘Rest’ in modern times, to examine discursive causes of their animosity and devise preliminary solutions to usher in peace and reconciliation in the Korean Peninsula. Drawing on a postcolonial reading of the liberal internationalist project and the global nuclear order, as well as a refle…
The Louis Hartz trap redux
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