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Two-Level Security Dilemma of Korea-Japan Relations: The Case of Lee Myungbak Government

Shin, Wookhee 1

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ABSTRACT

This paper attempts to explain the change from cooperation to conflict in the Korea-Japan relations during the Lee Myungbak government period, through the ways in which the role of the ideational variable and domestic politics can be examined in the foreign policy making process. The series of failures to conclude a military information agreement with Japan, President’s sudden visit to Dokdo Island, and the cessation of currency exchanges with Japan provides good examples of the treat transition and the two-level security dilemma. It is by way of such events that the political leader’s perception of threat with instrumental factors influences and forms domestic-societal perception of threat, which subsequently goes on to constrain practical cooperation.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.