Bringing together leading experts on Korea and US-Korean relations, Divided America, Divided Korea provides a nuanced look at the critical relationship between the US and the two Koreas during and after the Trump years. It considers domestic politics, soft power, human rights, trade, security policy, and more, while integrating the perspectives of those in the US, South and North Korea, Japan, China, and beyond. The authors, ranging from historians and political scientists to policymakers and practitioners, bring a myriad of perspectives and backgrounds to one of the most critical international relationships of the modern world during an unprecedented era of turmoil and change, while also offering critical analyses of the past and present, and somber warnings about the future.
Expanding the discussion beyond geopolitics and ideology, Roland Bleiker places Korea's difficult security situation in the context of a struggle over competing forms of identity. Divided Korea...
The divided families problem is a serious social issue in North and South Korea, involving hundreds of thousands of first generation divided family members, most of whom have not seen their relatives...
John and Ellen and their neighbors, all farmers in Southeastern Ohio, witness the depravity of economic destruction brought about by a government that has seized control during an economic downturn...