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International Relations Studies in South Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2016

Chung-in Moon  and
Taehwan Kim
Chung-in Moon
Affiliation:
Yonsei University
Taehwan Kim
Affiliation:
Yonsei University
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Abstract

In this paper, we review and summarize recent trends of international relations studies in South Korea on three distinct dimensions and, on the basis of this, suggest future directions of research in the field. Our focus throughout the paper is on the constraints and opportunities for the development of indigenous international relations theories and models. Although the confrontational Cold War legacy on the Korean Peninsula sustains the validity of the powerful realist paradigm, we argue that critical challenges are breathing a new life into the academic field of international relations in a time of great change when a new global and regional order has been taking shape since the end of the Cold War. In order to accommodate these new changes and call attention to epistemological pluralism, we posit liberal constructivism, which combines liberalism with constructivism, as a new epistemological alternative to the existing lines of international relations theories. Given the opportunities and intellectual resources, we conclude, the future of the discipline of international relations in South Korea is quite promising.

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Journal of East Asian Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 45 - 68
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Copyright © East Asia Institute 

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