Jae Jeok Park
Biographic Data
| ID | 5006962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jae Jeok Park |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jae Jeok |
| FAMILY NAME | Park |
| SIGNATURE | PARK J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trilaterals and the Reorganisation of Northeast Asia’s Regional Order
In an era of intensifying competition over the international order in Northeast Asia, both major and non-major states have increasingly sought to use trilateral mechanisms distinct from bilateral and multilateral forms. In this context, this article aims to discuss various types, origins, and influences of trilateral relations in international politics, as well as current and historical trilateral relations that have contributed to the emergence …
American coalition building of the US-led security network in the Indo-Pacific
Minilateralism and global governance
China’s Responses to the US-Led Security Network
In recent years China has forged an increasing number of strategic partnerships with other countries while maintaining its ‘non-alignment policy’. However, these partnerships are mainly bilateral rather than minilateral, and they thus have less potential to influence the Indo–Pacific regional order. This article examines how China has responded to the US-led security network, in which minilateralism features prominently, and argues that China has…
The US-led security network in the Indo-Pacific in international order transition
The liberal security order in the Indo-Pacific led by the US has been transitioning to one managed by a US-led security network. As a result, the geostrategic competition between the US and China has also been transforming to one between this US-led network and China. In the process, Japan, Australia, and India have emerged as major ‘nodes’ of the network. In this context, this paper adopts the concept of ‘network power’ to claim that South Korea…
The Liberal International Order in the Indo-Pacific in the midst of U.S.-China Hegemonic Competition
국제질서의 주도권을 둘러싼 미·중의 전략적 경합이 전방위에서 진행 중이다. 양 강대국 모두 국제사회의 공동선(善)을 추구하는 다자협력을 강조하고 있으나, 실제로는 진영경쟁에 매진하고 있다. 미국 주도의 자유주의 국제질서(LIO)를 회복하려는 바이든 대통령의 다자주의 전략은 민주주의 국가들과의 반중 연대를 지향하고 있어 다자주의 민주동맹에 참가하지 않는 국가 들에게는 배타적이다. 중국은 대규모 재정적·인적 자원을 동원하여 다자기구에서 적극적으로 영향력을 확대해왔으나, 국제법과 규범을 무시하는 중국식 다자주의에 대한 비판이 크다. 역내 (소)다자 협력도 미·중 대립이 가장 첨예한 인도·태평양(인태) 지역 LIO를 지탱하는 하나의 축으로 기능하기보다는 양 강대국의 지정학적 경합이 충돌하는 기제로 변질할 가능성이 크다. 이러한 맥락에서 미·중 전략경쟁을 완화하기 위한 중견국 역할론이 주목받고 있다. 양…
The US-North Korean asymmetrical security dilemma
The bulk of literature on the security dilemma has examined the phenomenon within the context of rivalry between great powers of roughly equal strength (for instance, the United States-Soviet nuclear arms race). Yet no study has examined the implications of power asymmetry between a strong power and a weak one when they are facing the security dilemma in their interaction. This manuscript shall examine how the asymmetry of interaction in the Unit…
The Quad’s Search for Non-Military Roles and China’s Strategic Response
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (‘Quad’)—a cooperative consisting of the US, Japan, Australia, and India—has re-emerged since 2017 after a decade of dormancy. After typologizing the minilateral security cooperation’s goals and its expansion, this article explains that the current Quad is an expanded minilateral cooperation of the existing various security bilaterals and trilaterals among its member states. This minilateral has increased its n…
To Double Down or Decouple? North Korea and China as Challenges to the U.S.‐South Korea Alliance
This article argues that both North Korea's nuclear weapons and Chinese attempts at wedge‐driving between South Korea and the United States represent threats to degrade and perhaps decouple the U.S.‐South Korea alliance. These will intensify regardless of the outcome of current diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula. This puts at risk a component of the San Francisco System that has served as a pillar for Northeast Asian regional security for almost s…
The Evolution of the South Korea–United States Alliance
Reflecting the fact that the US–ROK alliance is a typical defensive alliance against the North Korean threat, many books and articles on the alliance are written with a threat-centric focus. In examining the evolution of the alliance over the past 65 years, this book also points out that North Korean threat assessment and deterrence has been a major source of the alliance’s evolution. In addition, adopting the development power theory as a theore…
Exploiting Sino-US Geostrategic Competition
The mainstream literature on weak status quo states’ diplomacy tends to identify their regional security roles in terms of dealing with non-traditional security issues. This article argues that such a limited approach is not sufficient to explain the current security dynamics in the Asia-Pacific. This article reviews the literature on weak status quo states’ influence on regional order. It then identifies a security environment in which they are …
Unified Korea’s policy under various scenarios of the US-Sino relationship
What kind of policy goals and orientation would a unified Korea adopt? A concerned US asks, would it become a China-friendly state? Or, would it be an anchor for the American–Asian alliance network at the expense of China’s security interests? To address these questions, this article begins by identifying six possible scenarios for the US-Sino relationship at the time of a unification that result from the combination of (1) the relative power cap…
Security Cooperation between South Korea and Australia
Security cooperation between South Korea and Australia has increased in recent years. What has been driving this increasingly enhanced security cooperation between the two states, which are about 7,500 km apart from each other? This article approaches the question from the angle of minilateral security cooperation, which has been growing in the Asia–Pacific. It is relatively easier to build minilateral security cooperation upon an existing bilate…
Perception of order as a source of alliance cohesion
The level of alliance cohesion is affected by the shift of attitudinal aspects (such as homogeneity in goals and threat perceptions) and behavioural aspects (such as strategic compatibility, command structure and defence burden-sharing) of alliance operation. In particular, a clear threat perception tends to make an alliance cohesive, as it suppresses (potential) disputes over the behavioural aspects of alliance operation. This article argues, ho…
General interests’ as a rationale for the US–Republic of Korea alliance between 1998 and 2008
The US–Republic of Korea (ROK) alliance had significantly developed asset specificities and common social identities attached to it during the cold war period. If institutional features and ideational factors originating from the cold war threat can account for alliance resilience in the post-cold war period, the US–ROK alliance should be a ‘most likely case’ to support those causal links. This article shows that such is not the case. This articl…
The US-led alliances in the Asia-Pacific
The ‘hub-and-spoke’ alliance structure led by the United States was – and remains – a major feature of security politics in the Asia-Pacific. This article links its ‘general interests’ with the larger issue of the Asia-Pacific's evolving multilateral regional order. After reviewing the concept of ‘hedging’, the first section problematises the literature that treats the US-led alliances which constitute the hub-and-spoke system mainly as instrumen…
The US-led alliances in the Asia-Pacific
The ‘hub-and-spoke’ alliance structure led by the United States was – and remains – a major feature of security politics in the Asia-Pacific. This article links its ‘general interests’ with the larger issue of the Asia-Pacific's evolving multilateral regional order. After reviewing the concept of ‘hedging’, the first section problematises the literature that treats the US-led alliances which constitute the hub-and-spoke system mainly as instrumen…
Minilateralism and global governance
The Quad’s Search for Non-Military Roles and China’s Strategic Response
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (‘Quad’)—a cooperative consisting of the US, Japan, Australia, and India—has re-emerged since 2017 after a decade of dormancy. After typologizing the minilateral security cooperation’s goals and its expansion, this article explains that the current Quad is an expanded minilateral cooperation of the existing various security bilaterals and trilaterals among its member states. This minilateral has increased its n…
The US-led security network in the Indo-Pacific in international order transition
The liberal security order in the Indo-Pacific led by the US has been transitioning to one managed by a US-led security network. As a result, the geostrategic competition between the US and China has also been transforming to one between this US-led network and China. In the process, Japan, Australia, and India have emerged as major ‘nodes’ of the network. In this context, this paper adopts the concept of ‘network power’ to claim that South Korea…
Perception of order as a source of alliance cohesion
The level of alliance cohesion is affected by the shift of attitudinal aspects (such as homogeneity in goals and threat perceptions) and behavioural aspects (such as strategic compatibility, command structure and defence burden-sharing) of alliance operation. In particular, a clear threat perception tends to make an alliance cohesive, as it suppresses (potential) disputes over the behavioural aspects of alliance operation. This article argues, ho…
Security Cooperation between South Korea and Australia
Security cooperation between South Korea and Australia has increased in recent years. What has been driving this increasingly enhanced security cooperation between the two states, which are about 7,500 km apart from each other? This article approaches the question from the angle of minilateral security cooperation, which has been growing in the Asia–Pacific. It is relatively easier to build minilateral security cooperation upon an existing bilate…
China’s Responses to the US-Led Security Network
In recent years China has forged an increasing number of strategic partnerships with other countries while maintaining its ‘non-alignment policy’. However, these partnerships are mainly bilateral rather than minilateral, and they thus have less potential to influence the Indo–Pacific regional order. This article examines how China has responded to the US-led security network, in which minilateralism features prominently, and argues that China has…
General interests’ as a rationale for the US–Republic of Korea alliance between 1998 and 2008
The US–Republic of Korea (ROK) alliance had significantly developed asset specificities and common social identities attached to it during the cold war period. If institutional features and ideational factors originating from the cold war threat can account for alliance resilience in the post-cold war period, the US–ROK alliance should be a ‘most likely case’ to support those causal links. This article shows that such is not the case. This articl…
The US-led alliances in the Asia-Pacific
The ‘hub-and-spoke’ alliance structure led by the United States was – and remains – a major feature of security politics in the Asia-Pacific. This article links its ‘general interests’ with the larger issue of the Asia-Pacific's evolving multilateral regional order. After reviewing the concept of ‘hedging’, the first section problematises the literature that treats the US-led alliances which constitute the hub-and-spoke system mainly as instrumen…
General interests’ as a rationale for the US–Republic of Korea alliance between 1998 and 2008
The US–Republic of Korea (ROK) alliance had significantly developed asset specificities and common social identities attached to it during the cold war period. If institutional features and ideational factors originating from the cold war threat can account for alliance resilience in the post-cold war period, the US–ROK alliance should be a ‘most likely case’ to support those causal links. This article shows that such is not the case. This articl…
Perception of order as a source of alliance cohesion
The level of alliance cohesion is affected by the shift of attitudinal aspects (such as homogeneity in goals and threat perceptions) and behavioural aspects (such as strategic compatibility, command structure and defence burden-sharing) of alliance operation. In particular, a clear threat perception tends to make an alliance cohesive, as it suppresses (potential) disputes over the behavioural aspects of alliance operation. This article argues, ho…
Security Cooperation between South Korea and Australia
Security cooperation between South Korea and Australia has increased in recent years. What has been driving this increasingly enhanced security cooperation between the two states, which are about 7,500 km apart from each other? This article approaches the question from the angle of minilateral security cooperation, which has been growing in the Asia–Pacific. It is relatively easier to build minilateral security cooperation upon an existing bilate…
Unified Korea’s policy under various scenarios of the US-Sino relationship
What kind of policy goals and orientation would a unified Korea adopt? A concerned US asks, would it become a China-friendly state? Or, would it be an anchor for the American–Asian alliance network at the expense of China’s security interests? To address these questions, this article begins by identifying six possible scenarios for the US-Sino relationship at the time of a unification that result from the combination of (1) the relative power cap…
Exploiting Sino-US Geostrategic Competition
The mainstream literature on weak status quo states’ diplomacy tends to identify their regional security roles in terms of dealing with non-traditional security issues. This article argues that such a limited approach is not sufficient to explain the current security dynamics in the Asia-Pacific. This article reviews the literature on weak status quo states’ influence on regional order. It then identifies a security environment in which they are …
The Evolution of the South Korea–United States Alliance
Reflecting the fact that the US–ROK alliance is a typical defensive alliance against the North Korean threat, many books and articles on the alliance are written with a threat-centric focus. In examining the evolution of the alliance over the past 65 years, this book also points out that North Korean threat assessment and deterrence has been a major source of the alliance’s evolution. In addition, adopting the development power theory as a theore…
The US-North Korean asymmetrical security dilemma
The bulk of literature on the security dilemma has examined the phenomenon within the context of rivalry between great powers of roughly equal strength (for instance, the United States-Soviet nuclear arms race). Yet no study has examined the implications of power asymmetry between a strong power and a weak one when they are facing the security dilemma in their interaction. This manuscript shall examine how the asymmetry of interaction in the Unit…
The Quad’s Search for Non-Military Roles and China’s Strategic Response
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (‘Quad’)—a cooperative consisting of the US, Japan, Australia, and India—has re-emerged since 2017 after a decade of dormancy. After typologizing the minilateral security cooperation’s goals and its expansion, this article explains that the current Quad is an expanded minilateral cooperation of the existing various security bilaterals and trilaterals among its member states. This minilateral has increased its n…
To Double Down or Decouple? North Korea and China as Challenges to the U.S.‐South Korea Alliance
This article argues that both North Korea's nuclear weapons and Chinese attempts at wedge‐driving between South Korea and the United States represent threats to degrade and perhaps decouple the U.S.‐South Korea alliance. These will intensify regardless of the outcome of current diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula. This puts at risk a component of the San Francisco System that has served as a pillar for Northeast Asian regional security for almost s…
The Liberal International Order in the Indo-Pacific in the midst of U.S.-China Hegemonic Competition
국제질서의 주도권을 둘러싼 미·중의 전략적 경합이 전방위에서 진행 중이다. 양 강대국 모두 국제사회의 공동선(善)을 추구하는 다자협력을 강조하고 있으나, 실제로는 진영경쟁에 매진하고 있다. 미국 주도의 자유주의 국제질서(LIO)를 회복하려는 바이든 대통령의 다자주의 전략은 민주주의 국가들과의 반중 연대를 지향하고 있어 다자주의 민주동맹에 참가하지 않는 국가 들에게는 배타적이다. 중국은 대규모 재정적·인적 자원을 동원하여 다자기구에서 적극적으로 영향력을 확대해왔으나, 국제법과 규범을 무시하는 중국식 다자주의에 대한 비판이 크다. 역내 (소)다자 협력도 미·중 대립이 가장 첨예한 인도·태평양(인태) 지역 LIO를 지탱하는 하나의 축으로 기능하기보다는 양 강대국의 지정학적 경합이 충돌하는 기제로 변질할 가능성이 크다. 이러한 맥락에서 미·중 전략경쟁을 완화하기 위한 중견국 역할론이 주목받고 있다. 양…
The US-led security network in the Indo-Pacific in international order transition
The liberal security order in the Indo-Pacific led by the US has been transitioning to one managed by a US-led security network. As a result, the geostrategic competition between the US and China has also been transforming to one between this US-led network and China. In the process, Japan, Australia, and India have emerged as major ‘nodes’ of the network. In this context, this paper adopts the concept of ‘network power’ to claim that South Korea…
China’s Responses to the US-Led Security Network
In recent years China has forged an increasing number of strategic partnerships with other countries while maintaining its ‘non-alignment policy’. However, these partnerships are mainly bilateral rather than minilateral, and they thus have less potential to influence the Indo–Pacific regional order. This article examines how China has responded to the US-led security network, in which minilateralism features prominently, and argues that China has…
Minilateralism and global governance
American coalition building of the US-led security network in the Indo-Pacific
Trilaterals and the Reorganisation of Northeast Asia’s Regional Order
In an era of intensifying competition over the international order in Northeast Asia, both major and non-major states have increasingly sought to use trilateral mechanisms distinct from bilateral and multilateral forms. In this context, this article aims to discuss various types, origins, and influences of trilateral relations in international politics, as well as current and historical trilateral relations that have contributed to the emergence …
Political science (15 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (10 works) · Alliance (9 works) · Business (9 works) · China (8 works) · International Development and Aid (8 works)