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Author Flamm, Patrick, author.

Title South Korean identity and global foreign policy : dream of autonomy / Patrick Flamm
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 170 pages)
Series Role theory and international relations
Role theory and international relations.
Contents Introduction -- Korea in the world : identity and foreign policy -- Identity and roles in international relations -- A model for inquiry into international state identity -- South Korea and peacekeeping -- South Korea and climate diplomacy -- South Korea and global foreign policy : snapshots of identity -- Conclusion : dream of autonomy
Summary In the 20th century, South Korea was usually seen as a "shrimp amongst whales", a minor player with limited agency in regional and global affairs. Korea's risen status as a "middle power" today, however, begs the question about related changes in the South Korean identity or "sense of self" in the world. In this book, Patrick Flamm presents the first comprehensive and agency oriented empirical account of South Korean international state identity and Seoul's global foreign policy in the 21st century. Advancing a performative and narrative understanding of identity in International Relations, Flamm uses South Korea's global engagement in peacekeeping and climate diplomacy to offer much-needed insight into the various identity narratives and role conceptions at play. In the case of peacekeeping and climate diplomacy, South Korea's identity as an international actor has been dominated by practices of self-identification that position the country at the brink of advanced countries, aspiring to lead the rest of the world but with the overall objective to maintain national autonomy in a changing regional and global context. South Korean Identity and Global Foreign Policy is a must-read for scholars of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis and Asian/Korean Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Patrick Flamm is Lecturer in International Relations at the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington. His research interests are South Korea as a rising power in global affairs, identity and foreign policy, as well as international environmental and Antarctic politics. Patrick studied Political Science and International Relations at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, and Korea University, Republic of Korea, and holds a PhD in Asian Studies from the University of Auckland
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Subject Peacekeeping forces, South Korean.
Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Korea (South)
Environmental policy -- International cooperation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Climatic changes -- Government policy
Diplomatic relations
Environmental policy -- International cooperation
Peacekeeping forces, South Korean
SUBJECT Korea (South) -- Foreign relations -- 21st century
Subject Korea (South)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019009078
ISBN 9780429202186
0429517661
9780429510809
0429202180
9780429514234
0429510802
9780429517662
0429514239