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DESCRIPTION:South and North Korea are states born out of the Cold War and t
 heir division was solidified by the Korean War. The realities of the globa
 l Cold War limited South Korea’s interactions with some peoples and shap
 ed its understanding of friends and foes. Yet while most of the world rejo
 iced at the proposition of the “end of history” following the demoliti
 on of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union\, South K
 orea has struggled to move on. Nearly seventy-five years after the Korean 
 War began\, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was still using the exist
 ence of “pro-North Korean” communists as justification for declaring m
 artial law on December 3\, 2024. Papers in this panel use the lens of the 
 Cold War and its (supposed) end to shed light on various aspects of South 
 Korea’s relations with and understandings of the world as well as itself
 . In many respects\, the end of the Cold War opened space for South Korea 
 to expand its horizons in terms of its ambitions and connections with coun
 tries previously obscured by the Iron and Bamboo Curtains. In other ways\,
  consciously and unconsciously\, the people and policymakers of South Kore
 a struggled to move beyond the Cold War frame because of the North Korean 
 threat or a reluctance to discard privileges the supposed North Korean thr
 eat provided them.
DTSTAMP:20260412T140200Z
LOCATION:Room 208 (Seats 40)
SUMMARY:South Korea and Its Struggle to Move Beyond the Cold War - Keiran M
 acrae\, Kim Soo Jung\, Seung Mo Kang\, Peter Bankseok Kwon\, Benjamin A. E
 ngel
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/B8AWYW/
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