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No matter what kind of the power configuration and regional security order are emerging in East Asia, the most critical strategic challenge for countries like Korea, with their limited hard and soft power, is how to position itself and seek ways to cope with their strategic interactions between the two superpowers. Neither ower balancing practices such as balancing against nor opportunistic bandwagoning with the rising power seem to be useful bilateral strategic schemes for Korea in the midst of great power rivalry, as shown in the cases of ASEAN countries who have sought to engage with China in order to expand economic relations, and yet avoid bandwagoning with it due to their suspicions of China's intentions in the region. Thus, Korea's strategic thoughts for changing global and regional order should be proactively developed in terms of its own growing national status and capacities, as well as from the geopolitical perspectives. In this context, the paper examines the development of China's multilateral diplomacy in East Asia and the U.S. attempt to counterbalance China in the multilateral settings. Taking a lesson from the achievements and limits of ASEAN in the regional architecture, it is argued that although Korea has few choices in terms of strengthening the Korea-US alliance and pursuing a balanced strategy of assertiveness and accommodation in its bilateral relations with regional states, the country should exert its decision-making influences on specific issues and in multilateral or mini-lateral settings.

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Abstract
 I. Introduction
 II. Competing Perspectives on Evolving East Asian Regional Security Architecture : a Korean Strategic Viewpoint
 III. U.S. -China Rivalry in Regional Multilateral Mechanisms
 IV. Korea’s Quest for Initiating a Regional Security Cooperation : A Lesson Learned from ASEAN Experience
  1. ASEAN Centrality in the Regional Architecture: Achievements and Challenges
  2. Korea’s Strategic Challenges and Tasks for Multilateral Regional Initiatives
 V. Conclusion
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저자

• Shin-wha Lee [ 이신화 | Department of Political Science, Korea University, Korea ]

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• 간행물명

  평화학연구 [THE JOURNAL OF PEACE STUDIES]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1738-2580

• 수록기간

  2004~2024

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 340 DDC 320