Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic HistoryPrinceton University Press, 2002 - 285 من الصفحات Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a defining moment of the Cold War. It militarized a conflict that previously had been largely political and economic. And it solidified a series of divisions--of Korea into North and South, of Germany and Europe into East and West, and of China into the mainland and Taiwan--which were to persist for at least two generations. Two of these divisions continue to the present, marking two of the most dangerous political hotspots in the post-Cold War world. The Korean War grew out of the Cold War, it exacerbated the Cold War, and its impact transcended the Cold War. William Stueck presents a fresh analysis of the Korean War's major diplomatic and strategic issues. Drawing on a cache of newly available information from archives in the United States, China, and the former Soviet Union, he provides an interpretive synthesis for scholars and general readers alike. Beginning with the decision to divide Korea in 1945, he analyzes first the origins and then the course of the conflict. He takes into account the balance between the international and internal factors that led to the war and examines the difficulty in containing and eventually ending the fighting. This discussion covers the progression toward Chinese intervention as well as factors that both prolonged the war and prevented it from expanding beyond Korea. Stueck goes on to address the impact of the war on Korean-American relations and evaluates the performance and durability of an American political culture confronting a challenge from authoritarianism abroad. Stueck's crisp yet in-depth analysis combines insightful treatment of past events with a suggestive appraisal of their significance for present and future. |
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... Communist delegation at Panmunjom , walks from a meeting of the reconvened talks , May 8 , 1953. 175 FIG . 19. U.S. and ROK officials meet at President Syngman Rhee's Seoul residence on June 13 , 1953 , only days before Rhee's release ...
... Communist side that challenged aspects of the revisionist account of the war's origins.13 Still , the day had long since passed when the civil aspect of the Korean War's origins could be largely ignored.1 A major task before scholars ...
... Communist aggression , " and bolstering North Atlantic Treaty Organization defenses the United States produced its greatest political victory since World War II , it also missed a possible opportunity " to unite Korea and to inflict a ...
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