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(The) configuration of middle power in South Korea's foreign policy
Jeong, Monica Sooyul Korea University 2018 국내박사
The middle power discourse has been proliferated in South Korea’s media and academia since the inception of Lee Myung Bak administration’s Global Korea in 2008. It has become an official foreign policy posture under President Park Geun-hye’s leadership. While there are numerous studies that explain South Korea’s middle power characteristics and roles with the assumption that it is a middle power, there is yet to be an in-depth understanding of why South Korea has chosen to adopt the middle power classification. In order to uncover the actual significance and use of the middle power classification in South Korea’s foreign policy, this research took South Korean leaders’ foreign policy discourses between the years 1948 and 2014, and conducted a discourse analysis relative to South Korea’s environment inside and outside the Korean Peninsula. The findings indicate that the underlying significance of South Korea’s middle power classification operates in a social environment comprised of the dominant and less dominant countries. By identifying ‘self’ as a ‘middle power,’ South Korea seeks to gently balance and neutralize the asymmetrical relationships and thereby, create its complex environment more conducive for its interests, including the removal of its long-ingrained victim mindset. Therefore, South Korea’s middle power position should not be generalized by the conventional connotations of its increased capacity and greater responsibilities in the world. Instead, it requires an analysis of discourse that can analyze and explain the inseparable relationship the middle power classification has with ideology and power distribution.