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The Implication of War conducted by USA on the Changes of ROK-US Alliance

Jang Kwangyeol 1

1국방대학교 국가안전보장문제연구소

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ABSTRACT

In the case of asymmetric alliance like that of ROK-US, naturally, the side having more power has the initiative, taking lead to have advantage over the weak partner. And it is possibly normal phenomenon that the weak power does not have main role for the alliance and makes a concession to strong power’s demand. But when strong power gets involve in any war, the status become different, that is, the pattern of alliance is altered. In results of this study, the weak partners’s demands has more powerful influence on strong power’s in wartime compared to peacetime. That means the weak power’s influence to the changes of alliance reinforce on the strong power’s in wartime. It is because the alliance policy of the weak power become more active and bigger concentration and confidence for negotiation in strong power’s in wartime. In order to prove this phenomenon, I paid attention to three things in this study. The first is ‘Two Level Game theory’ which is that "How international and domestic level political functions make negotiation processing and products of alliance." The second is ‘Asymmetrical Negotiation Theory’. I trace the how weak power overcome the gap of total national abilities with strong power thorough the negotiation during the strong power’s in war and peace time. The next is the result of this study. Weak side has more initiative for the negotiation in strong power’s in wartime. Because the strong power has to concentrate his attention on the war, and weak power has more alternatives than strong power’s on peacetime. Moreover I checked the strong nation has expended ‘win-set’ for the negotiation by domestic political pressure and international situation, but weak power has small ‘win-set’ during the strong power’s wartime. There for during the strong power’s wartime, the bilateral asymmetrical alliance changed to weak power’s favor. But in peacetime, strong power leads the alliance with his total national abilities. In the last analysis, if weak power want to have initiative in asymmetrical alliance with strong nation, The nation has to have attention to strong nation’s wartime and quasi-state of war. And in strong power’s peacetime, weak power make small win-set through hearing public opinion and diversity of strategy and tactics for negotiation with strong power.

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