The Logic of the Transformation of ROK-U.S Alliance’s Influence on the Geopolitical Pattern of Korean Peninsula

Meifang Xue; Dunqiu Li

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The Logic of the Transformation of ROK-U.S Alliance’s Influence on the Geopolitical Pattern of Korean Peninsula

Meifang Xue, Dunqiu Li

Published in Journal of Political Science and International Relations (Volume 4, Issue 2)

Received: 15 March 2021 Accepted: 6 April 2021 Published: 13 April 2021

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This study mainly combines the historical evolution of the Korea-U.S. alliance (vertical) with international politics’ current situation dynamics (horizontal). It explores the correlation between the transformation direction of the Korea-U.S. alliance and the change of the Korean Peninsula’s geographical pattern from the composite perspective of the asymmetry between big and small countries. This study mainly follows the two logical lines: one is to comprehensively consider the “invariance” law of the alliance transformation by dialectically analyzing both the alliance’s external environment and South Korea’s internal affairs, and analyze the specific manifestation of the alliance's quantitative changes and the impact of the transformation direction on the future geopolitical map of the Korean Peninsula during the current Moon Jae-in period; the second is to estimate the gradual changes of the geopolitical mechanics in Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia with the breakthrough of the DPRK’s nuclear force and analyze China’s future coping strategies. Overall, the effects brought by Donald John Trump to a certain extent dispersed the alliance based on traditional American values. Even in 2021, under the background of Biden’s multilateral solid return, the ROK-US alliance returns to stabilize. It is a non-ignorable aspect that American hegemony will decline in the future, which is also the internal cause of the qualitative changes of the direction of the ROK-US alliance in post -Trump period and the safety structure in Northeast Asia.

Published in	Journal of Political Science and International Relations (Volume 4, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.jpsir.20210402.11
Page(s)	24-32
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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ROK-US Alliance, The Korean Peninsula, Geopolitics, Interactive Logic

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Meifang Xue

School of Politics and Public Administration, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China
Dunqiu Li

The Center for Countries and Regional Studies, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China

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