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China and Its Neighbors: How to Sustain Democracy and Democratization in the Pacific? The Case of South Korea

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China’s neighbor South Korea is a leading emerging power. Exemplary for other Asian nations in the expanding gravitation sphere of China, paradoxically both its competition with and dependency on China are growing simultaneously.

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Benedikter, R. (2014). China and Its Neighbors: How to Sustain Democracy and Democratization in the Pacific? The Case of South Korea. In: China’s Road Ahead. SpringerBriefs in Political Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9363-1_6

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