Abstract
Who is Abe Shinzo? Is he a realist who happens to be an historical revisionist, or is he a revisionist whose realism carries the seeds of revived Japanese militarism? South Korean opinion leans toward the latter conclusion, while Americans largely hold the former. Divergent views on the Abe administration and its foreign policy orientations have emerged as a source of friction between Seoul and Washington as security allies.
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Jonathan Soble, “Abe Issues Party Rallying Cry after Poll Win,” Financial Times, July 22, 2013.
Nicholas Eberstadt, “Our Other Korea Problem,” The National Interest (Fall 2002); Richard V. Allen, “Seoul’s Choice: The U.S. or the North,” The New York Times, January 16, 2003.
Yoichi Funabashi, The Peninsula Question: A Chronicle of the Second Korean Nuclear Crisis (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008), 261.
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Youngshik, B. (2015). ROK and US Views on the Foreign Policy of the Abe Administration. In: Rozman, G. (eds) Asia’s Alliance Triangle. Asan-Palgrave Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137541710_5
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