Korea’s Future and the Great Powers

The eventual reunification of the Korean Peninsula will send political and economic reverberations throughout Northeast Asia and will catalyze the struggle over a new regional order among the four great powers of the Pacific—Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. Korea’s Future and the Great Powers addresses the vital issues of how to achieve a stable political order in a unified Korea, how to finance Korean economic reconstruction, and how to link Korea into a cooperative framework of international diplomatic relations.

Contents

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1 Introduction

HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT

2 Conflict and Cooperation: The Pacific Powers and Korea

by Chae-Jin Lee

3 Discerning North Korea’s Intentions by Chuck Downs

4 China and Korean Reunification--A Neighbor’s Concerns

by Robert A. Scalapino

5 Japan and the Unification of Korea: Challenges for U.S. Policy Coordination by Michael H. Armacost and Kenneth B. Pyle

6 Russia, Korea, and Northeast Asia

by Herbert J. Ellison

ECONOMIC CONTEXT

7 Economic Strategies for Reunification by Marcus Noland

8 The Role of International Finance in Korean Economic Reconstruction and Reunification

STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS

9 The Post-Korean Unification Security Landscape and U.S. Security Policy in Northeast Asia

10 Negotiating Korean Unification: Options for an International Framework by Robert L. Gallucci

11 A Policy Agenda for Achieving Korean Reunification by Douglas H. Paal

12 Assessing Interests and Objectives of Major Actors in the Korean Drama

by Nicholas Eberstadt and Richard J. Ellings

About the Editors and Contributors

Index