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The Path to Institutionalization of Alliance in the Process of State Formation : A Comparative Study of ROK-US Alliance and DPRK-PRC Alliance

  • The Journal of Northeast Asia Research
  • Abbr : NEA
  • 2015, 30(1), pp.5-32
  • DOI : 10.18013/jnar.2015.30.1.001
  • Publisher : The Institute for Northeast Asia Research
  • Research Area : Social Science > Political Science > International Politics > International Relations / Cooperation

Hyukjin Cho 1

1연세대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study analyzes the path to the institutionalization of the alliance in the two Koreas’ state formation processes after liberation from the Japanese colonial rule. The ROK-US and DPRK-PRC alliances, both still in effect, have formed the regional order around Northeast Asia. This paper argues that the ROK and DPRK institutionalized their alliances in different models of “internal state formation” and “external relationship.” Firstly, this paper explains the critical junctures of internal state formation of the two Koreas, the establishments of divided governments, the Korean War, the processes of state builders’ consolidation of their power during and after the war. Secondly, this paper analyzes the external ordering of the states around the Korean Peninsula as the external relationship structure and the influence of this ordering on the paths to institutionalization of the alliances. Regarding the implications of the alliances, it points out that South Korea became dependent on the US and North Korea started to carry its multilateral policy. At the regional level, the continuation of the alliances has intensified the regional division and it functions as an obstacle to Northeast Asian regional integration and cooperation.

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