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@article{ART002084301},
author={Bruce Cummings},
title={Korea’s Centrality to the Cold War},
journal={Asia Review},
issn={2234-0386},
year={2016},
volume={5},
number={2},
pages={185-210}

TY - JOUR
AU - Bruce Cummings
TI - Korea’s Centrality to the Cold War
JO - Asia Review
PY - 2016
VL - 5
IS - 2
PB - 아시아연구소
SP - 185
EP - 210
SN - 2234-0386
AB - After World War II the United States faced three daunting tasks ofrevitalizing the global economy, preserving the “free world” against globalcommunism, and managing a changed world of newly independent nationstatesthat just emerged from colonialism. The U.S. pursued the strategy ofcontaining the Soviet Union and politically and economically dominatinga vast crescent-shaped area stretching from Japan to western Europe. But unlike what has been taken for granted by mainstream historicalperspectives, the containment strategy did not go so smoothly and requireda constant dialectic with the rollback strategy, amid the struggles andcompromises in domestic politics that helped shape the outcome and thestrategy. Furthermore, the “free world” was not so clearly demarcated fromthe start, but rather gradually defined through a continuum of mistakes,shortcomings, and coincidences. At the very center of this haphazardprocess of groping in the dark stood Korea. The confusion and chaos evident in the American strategy concerningKorea as the United States occupied the peninsula and attempted toestablish order in the wake of Japan’s defeat and during the subsequentKorean War were but a localized epitomization of the difficulties Americaexperienced in finding appropriate solutions to the global challenges thenew hegemon faced. However, the resultant bipartisan consensus and convergence towards a moderate internationalist foreign policy couldnot successfully manage the third problem of erupting anti-colonialismand revolutionary nationalism, of which Korea proved to be a primaryreflection of the process and consequences of American Cold War strategy.
KW - Supremacy;Cold War;Korean War;containment;collback;liberalism;anticommunism;nationalism
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Bruce Cummings. (2016). Korea’s Centrality to the Cold War. Asia Review, 5(2), 185-210.

Bruce Cummings. 2016, "Korea’s Centrality to the Cold War", Asia Review, vol.5, no.2 pp.185-210.

Bruce Cummings "Korea’s Centrality to the Cold War" Asia Review 5.2 pp.185-210 (2016) : 185.

Bruce Cummings. Korea’s Centrality to the Cold War. 2016; 5(2), 185-210.

Bruce Cummings. "Korea’s Centrality to the Cold War" Asia Review 5, no.2 (2016) : 185-210.

Bruce Cummings. Korea’s Centrality to the Cold War. Asia Review, 5(2), 185-210.

Bruce Cummings. Korea’s Centrality to the Cold War. Asia Review. 2016; 5(2) 185-210.

Bruce Cummings. Korea’s Centrality to the Cold War. 2016; 5(2), 185-210.

Bruce Cummings. "Korea’s Centrality to the Cold War" Asia Review 5, no.2 (2016) : 185-210.