Security crisis and economic interdependence :

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" Security crisis and economic interdependence : "
Sung, Ki-Young

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1098388
Doc. No	:	TLets541160
Main Entry	:	Sung, Ki-Young
Title & Author	:	Security crisis and economic interdependence :\ Sung, Ki-Young
College	:	University of Warwick
Date	:	2010
student score	:	2010
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	Modern security studies have demonstrated that military insecurity or confrontation create crucial obstacles in trade relationships between states. Unlike this widely accepted conclusion, the trade relationship between the ROK and the DPRK from 2002 to 2006 showed a stable growth despite increasingly hostile political confrontation and military tension caused by the North Korean nuclear program. This study analyzes under what conditions the security instability did not undermine economic interdependence and which factors predominantly affected the actors' behavior by focusing on South Korean SMEs. It will conclude that substantial change of inter-Korean relations after the summit talks in 2000 enabled the SMEs to continue to engage with the DPRK under the nuclear crisis. In terms of what actually motivated SMEs in these transactions, it will argue that South Korean businessmen's desperate desire to took for lower-cost production provided a key driving force for them to risk the military instability. This study will substantiate this argument by providing a result of structured survey of South Korean entrepreneurs who actually were involved in the inter-Korea trade in this particular period. By analyzing how security agenda and economic interest relates each other, this study will overcome either security-dominated or economy-centered bias in capturing the changed essence of inter-Korean relations.
Subject	:	HC Economic History and Conditions
	:	JQ Political institutions (Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific Area, etc.)
Added Entry	:	University of Warwick