Abstract
The Korean Peninsula has been one of the most visible areas in discussions about US military commitment to various parts of the world. Amid the rise of the friction in the US-South Korean alliance, perspectives about the origin of US commitment to Korea have often set the terms for discussion about the current role of the United States in Korea. This book attempts to assess the origin and nature of US policy toward Korea by examining three periods in the early half of US-Korean relations—the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman—until the decision to intervene in the Korean War in 1950.
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For encouragements of cooperation between historians and theorists for the study of international relations, see Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman, eds., Bridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Study of International Relations (Cambridge: MIT, 2001);
and Geoffrey Roberts, “History, Theory and the Narrative Turn in IR,” Review of International Studies 32, 4 (October 2006), 703–14.
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Kim, Sy. (2009). Introduction. In: American Diplomacy and Strategy toward Korea and Northeast Asia, 1882–1950 and After. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230621688_1
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