Description
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of the puzzling relationship between Japan and the Republic of Korea and the influence of the United States on it from the Cold War to the present. It draws on recently declassified U.S. documents, internal Korean government documents, and interviews with former policy makers in the United States, Japan, and Korea.
Trade Review"A carefully researched treatment of the highs and lows of U.S.-Japan-Korea trilateral policy coordination. . . . It merits reading by both scholars and practitioners of East Asian security." -- William J. Perry * Former Secretary of Defense and Special Advisor to the President on North Korea Policy *
"Cha's book is a meticulously documented yet readable account of the tensions and interactions between America's tow allies in Northeast Asia in recent decades. It adds significantly to accessible knowledge of a difficult but increasingly important relationship." -- Don Oberdorfer * author of
The Two Koreas: A Contmporary History *
"The book is an impressive piece of work which raises the level of academic dicussion on the U.S.-Korea-Japan security triangle. . . . Cha's book should be a major contribution." -- Ezra F. Vogel * Howard University *
"The book's stengths are both theoretical and empirical. Cha develops a very good framework that yields testable predicitons about how U.S.-Japan-ROK relations should change. The empirical chapters set out important history . . . and work very well for testing the theory." -- Robert Jervis * Columbia University *
"Victor D. Cha's
Alignment Despite Antagonism provides a much needed corrective to the tyranny of solipsistic historicism in understanding South Korea-Japan security ties and sets a new benchmark for scholarship." --
The Journal of Asian Studies"Cha's work represents a landmark in the study of South Korea-Japan relations and a new starting place for all future studies on these crucial ties. Cha's study may be the most systematic and objective study of South Korea-Japan security ties thus far, and his analysis explains more than existing explanations." --
The Journal of Asian Studies"Cha's most important contribution is that his study sets a new standard for scholarship." --
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