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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The United States faces Korea
• First encounters
• Japanese ascendancy in Korea
• National division
• The Korean War
• The containment system
• 3. The dynamics of structural adjustment : from Nixon to Carter
• The Guam Doctrine
• Nixon's China policy
• Ford's interregnum
• Carter's military policy
• The Koreagate investigations
• Political crisis in South Korea
• 4. The passing of the Cold War : the Reagan and Bush years
• Reagan's anti-communist policy
• The Beijing talks
• Roh's Northern diplomacy
• Economic relations
• 5. From containment to engagement : Clinton's policy
• Engagement policy
• The Four-Party Talks
• The Perry process
• A missed opportunity
• 6. In search of hegemonic diplomacy : Bush's policy
• Bush's new doctrines
• The "axis of evil:
• The HEU program
• Multilateral diplomacy
• The Six-Party Talks
• A strained alliance
• The Yongsan Garrison
• South Korean troops in Iraq
• 7. Prospects
• Continuity and change
• Inter-Korean relations
• The United States and Korea after unification.

In A Troubled Peace, Professor Chae-Jin Lee reviews the vicissitudes of U.S. policy toward South and North Korea since 1948 when rival regimes were installed on the Korean peninsula. He explains the continuously changing nature of U.S.-Korea relations by discussing the goals the United States has sought for Korea, the ways in which these goals have been articulated, and the methods used to implement them. Using a careful analysis of declassified diplomatic documents, primary materials in English, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, and extensive interviews with American and Korean officials, Lee draws attention to a number of factors that have affected U.S. policy: the functions of U.S. security policy in Korea, the role of the United States in South Korea's political democratization, President Clinton's policy of constructive engagement toward North Korea, President Bush's hegemonic policy toward North Korea, and the hexagonal linkages among the United States, China, Japan, Russia, and the two Koreas. Drawing on concepts of containment, deterrence, engagement, preemption, and appeasement, Lee's balanced and thoughtful approach reveals the frustrations of all players in their attempts to arrive at a modicum of coexistence. His objective, comprehensive, and definitive study reveals a dynamic-and incredibly complex-series of relationships underpinning a troubled and tenuous peace.
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• Introduction: The problem of diplomatic style
• 1. Diplomacy and style
• 2. Defining diplomatic style
• 3. Ideal types and ideal diplomats
• 4. Four ideal types of diplomatic style
• 5. Accessing diplomatic style: A case study of South Korea
• 6. Diplomatic style: Narratives of South Korean diplomats
• 7. Diplomatic style: Narratives of the Seoul diplomatic corps
• 8. Analytical insight and South Korean diplomatic style Conclusion: Diplomatic style as foreign policy insight.
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The book explores diplomatic style and its use as a means to provide analytical insight into a state's foreign policy, with a specific focus on South Korea. Diplomatic style attracts scant attention from scholars. It is dismissed as irrelevant in the context of diplomacy's universalism; misconstrued as a component of foreign policy; alluded to perfunctorily amidst broader considerations of foreign policy; or wholly absented from discussions in which it should comprise an important component. In contrast to these views, practitioners maintain a faith-like confidence in diplomatic style. They assume it plays an important role in providing analytical insight, giving them advantage over scholars in the analysis of foreign policy. This book explores diplomatic style and its use as a means to provide analytical insight into foreign policy, using South Korea as a case study. It determines that style remains important to diplomatic practitioners, and provides analytical insight into a state's foreign policy by highlighting phenomena of policy relevance, which narrows the range of information an analyst must cover. The book demonstrates how South Korea's diplomatic style - which has a tendency towards emotionalism, and is affected by status, generational change, cosmopolitanism, and estrangement from international society - can be a guide to understanding South Korea's contemporary foreign policy. This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy studies, foreign policy, Asian politics, and International Relations in general.
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