Workshop Report: America in Question: South Korean Democracy and the Challenge of Non-Proliferation on the Peninsula
Paul Evans, Liu Faculty, UBC
September 9, 2005
The workshop was the first in a series of three meetings on ”Rebuilding American Security“ funded by the Ford Foundation and organized by Paul Evans, Acting Director, Liu Institute in cooperation with partner institutions in Asia.
The basic question informing the series is how democratization in Asia affects national security priorities, views of US security policy, and relations with the US.
The Seoul workshop was organized together with Byung-Kook Kim, Director, East Asia Institute to assess the responses of South Korean publics and elites to the Bush administration’s security strategy, its approach to non-proliferation in the context of the North Korean nuclear program, and the future of the alliance.
The thirty-five participants at the workshop were selected to represent a variety of political, ideological and generational perspectives. About two thirds were from Seoul and the remainder from the United States, Canada, China, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. The discussion was conducted in English.
See below for a copy of the WORKSHOP REPORT and the four PAPERS presented at the workshop.
Click here for the Workshop Report
Click here for “Changing South Korean Public Opinion on the US”
Nae-Young Lee – Korea University
Click here for “Korea Backgrounder: How the South Views Its Brother From Another Planet”
Peter Beck – International Crisis Group
Click here for “Coping with the North Korean Nuclear Problem: A South Korean Perspective”
Sung-han Kim – Institute of Foreign Affairs & National Security
Click here for “Goliath’s Game: U.S. Policy toward North Korea in Strategic Context”
Wade Huntley – Simons Center, Liu Institute
