List of Figures and Tables xiii
Preface to the Paperback Edition xv
Acknowledgments xvii
1. South korea's strategic choices 1
2. Strategic choices under authoritarian rule 20
3. Roh Tae-woo and kim young-sam: nordpolitik and democratization 53
4. Kim Dae-jung and the sunshine policy 83
5. Roh Moo-hyun's balancer policy 114
6. Lee Myung-bak's global korea policy 143
7. Park geun-hye's asian paradox 170
8. The paradox of south korea's middle-power status 192
9. Korea between the united states and china 212
10. Unification and korean strategic choices 237
Epilogue: south korean strategic choices and the U.S.-South korea alliance 262
Select Source Documents 275
1. Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea, 1953 275
2. Joint Statement of North and South, 1972 276
3. Inter-Korean Agreement on Reconciliation, Non-aggression, and Exchanges and Cooperation Between South and North Korea, 1991 278
4. South-North Joint Declaration, 2000 282
5. Declaration on the Advancement of South-North Korean Relations, Peace, and Prosperity, 2007 283
6. Joint Vision for the Alliance of the United States of America and the Republic of Korea, 2009 287
7. Joint Declaration in Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Alliance Between the Republic of Korea and the United States of America, 2013 289
Chronology of Important Events in South Korean Strategic History 293
Notes 309
Select Bibliography 341
Index 343