Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Note on Korean, Chinese, and Japanese Terms
1. Introduction
2. The United States Faces Korea
First Encounters
Japanese Ascendancy in Korea
National Division
The Korean War
The Containment System
3. The Dynamics of Structural Adjustment: From Nixon to Carter
The Guam Doctrine
Nixon's China Policy
Ford's Interregnum
Carter's Military Policy
The Koreagate Investigations
Political Crisis in South Korea
4. The Passing of the Cold War: The Reagan and Bush Years
Reagan's Anti-Communist Policy
The Beijing Talks
Roh's Northern Diplomacy
Economic Relations
5. From Containment to Engagement: Clinton's Policy
Engagement Policy
The Four-Party Talks
The Perry Process
A Missed Opportunity
6. In Search of Hegemonic Diplomacy: Bush's Policy
Bush's New Doctrines
The "Axis of Evil"
The HEU Program
Multilateral Diplomacy
The Six-Party Talks
A Strained Alliance
The Yongsan Garrison
South Korean Troops in Iraq
7. Prospects
Continuity and Change
Inter-Korean Relations
The United States and Korea after Unification
Appendix: Tables
Notes
Index

About the Author

Chae-Jin Lee is the BankAmerica Professor of Pacific Basin Studies and director of the Keck Center of International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College.

Reviews

Any collection which includes details on Korean history will find essential to the fold the addition of A Troubled Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas. -- Diane Donovan California Bookwatch Lee provides an excellent study of foreign policy-making in a region vital to American interests... This volume will serve as a valuable resource for scholars of American foreign policy and contemporary Korean history. -- David Hundt Political Studies Review One of the best two or three books on Korea's international relations in the English language and should be of great interest to a wide range of scholars and general readers. -- Gregg Andrew Brazinsky Pacific Affairs A valuable study. -- James I. Matray Korean Studies