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Summary:

"An erratic, aging North Korean leadership intent on dynastic succession and development of nuclear weapons is attracting a lot of attention in the Asia-Pacific Region -- an area of utmost importance to the United States. Current concerns about security in Korea provide the backdrop to this volume, which offers an overview of the evolution of security on the Korean peninsula and an assessment of the U.S. role there from the 1940s to the present. A distinctive feature of this volume is the long historical perspective that is brought to bear on contemporary security dilemmas. The renowned contributors examine U.S. policy prior to and during the Korean War and look at the subsequent changes in U.S. commitment to South Korea during a period of global stalemate that had been shaped in part by the war itself. The authors then assess the future of U.S.-Korean relations within the context of the changing international environment, considering the prospects for future strife, the merits of a cooperative security system, and the possibility of reunification."--Publisher's description.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway
• Preface: Matthew Ridgway and the Korean War / Donald M. Goldstein
• Map of Korea
• Security in Korea: The Road Less Traveled / Phil Williams, Donald M. Goldstein and Henry L. Andrews, Jr.
• U.S. Policy on the Eve of the Korean War: Abandonment or Safeguard? / Kim Chull Baum
• The Korean War: Background and Overview / Clay Blair
• Collision in Korea: Misperception or Miscalculation? / Allen S. Whiting
• The Politics of the Korean War / John S. Spanier
• No Winners, Many Losers: The End of the Korean War / Thomas Allen
• Reaping What Was Sowed: Effects of the Korean War / Phil Williams, Henry L. Andrews, Jr. and Peter D. Duerst
• "The Past Is Not Dead, It Is Not Even Past": The Korean War Through the Lens of Vietnam / Ronald H. Spector
• President Carter's Troop Withdrawal from Korea / Joseph R. Wood
• The United States Commitment to South Korea: An Uncertain Future / Phil Williams
• The U.S. Military Presence in Korea: The Warfighters' Perspective / William F. Smith
• The Context of Korean Unification: The Case for a Multilateral Security Structure / James E. Goodby
• Korea Amidst the Great Powers / Gerald Segal
• Korea at the Crossroads: Nuclearization or Reunification? / Henry L. Adams, Jr. and Peter D. Duerst.

Contributors:

Williams, Phil, 1948- , editor

Goldstein, Donald M. , editor

Andrews, Henry L , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Reproduction of: Security in Korea (Boulder : Westview Press, 1994; Ridgway series in international security studies — ISBN 0813388848; LCCN 94012043; OCLC Number 30354409)

Related Series:

Ridgway series in international security studies

Subjects:

Korean War, 1950-1953

National security — Korea (South)

Korea (South) — Military relations — United States

United States — Military relations — Korea (South)

Korean reunification question (1945- )

Korean War (1950-1953)

Since 1945

Military relations

Korean reunification question (1945- )

National security

Korea (South)

Korea

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-293) and index.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Physical Characteristics:

map; illustration

Call Numbers:

DS918 .S43 2019

ISBNs:

0367286955
9780367286958

OCLC Numbers:

1119618657