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Agreements without commitments: the U.S. Congress and the U.S.-North Korea agreed framework, 1994-2002
/ Seo, Jungkun
Seo, Jungkun
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Twenty years after the deal struck between the United States and North Korea over the nuclear crisis, the security environment on the Korean Peninsula remains unstable. When it comes to the U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework from 1994 through 2002, previous research has paid scant attention to how the U.S. Congress responded to President Clinton’s accord with the Pyongyang regime. This article provides a rare empirical assessment of what led America’s lawmakers to uphold or overturn the executive agreements with North Korea. The bottom-line finding is that politics hardly stops at the water’s edge, with “politics-as-usual” forces such as partisan conflicts ultimately having derailed Congressional commitments to the U.S.-DPRK accords. The results shed light on how and why domestic politics often redirects the course of international agreements, particularly in the era of polarized politics.
Key Words
North Korea
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Korean Peninsula
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Nuclear Crisis
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U.S. Congress
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International Agreement
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United States – US
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U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework
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Executive Agreement
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Legislative Commitments
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Pyongyang Regime
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China card: playing politics with Sino-American relations
/ Trubowitz, Peter; Seo, Jungkun
Trubowitz, Peter
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2012.
Key Words
United States
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China
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Sino - American Relations
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China Card
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Security ties or electoral connections? the US congress and the Korea–US free trade agreement
/ Seo, Jungkun
Seo, Jungkun
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Conventional wisdom is that trade policy is often guided by geopolitical security considerations. A growing body of research addresses the security–trade linkage as a plausible cause for executive negotiations over the Korea–US Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) in 2007. Yet, the approval of a trade deal with the Asian ally by America's legislature in 2011 features not only ‘security ties’ but also ‘electoral connections’. This paper seeks to examine the question of whether alliance relationships would inevitably translate into domestic commitments. Bringing domestic politics into consideration, this article also fills the gap in the literature on Congress-focused research of the KORUS FTA and sheds light on how lawmakers strike a balance between the principle of US foreign policy and the reality of conflicting domestic interests.
Key Words
Security
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Free Trade Agreement
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US Foreign Policy
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US Congress
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KORUS FTA
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Korea – US
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Electoral Connections
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Strange bedfellows and US China policy in the era of polarized politics
/ Seo, Jungkun
Seo, Jungkun
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Party polarization is the new buzzword in American politics and yet partisanship seems to play such a small role in determining congressional votes on China policy. We still do not know much about how polarized politics in Washington actually exerts influence in the making of U.S. policy toward Beijing. Paying special attention to America`s response to China from 2001 through 2012, this article seeks to analyze the sources and processes of how party polarization affects foreign policymaking. I argue that with the U.S. president adopting a hands-off approach and parties being polarized, a coalition of ideologically extreme lawmakers is likely to take cross-partisan actions over China. In essence, individual rank-and-file lawmakers tend to step forward and speak out in a party-less manner in the era of polarized America and a rising China.
Key Words
U.S. Congress
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Party Polarization
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U.S. China Policy
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Strange Bedfellows
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American Presidency
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