Titolo completo
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Global Polarisation and Yoon’s Security Strategy
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the escalation in the US-China rivalry have exacerbated the existing political and strategic polarisation in Northeast Asia and in the wider Indo-Pacific region. South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol has reacted by promoting foreign and security strategies based on a peculiar, and in many respects innovative, interpretation of South Korea’s foreign policy tradition he has articulated in several axis: a stronger alliance with the United States, and the adoption of the concept of “Global Pivotal State”, the investment in the strategic triangle with the United States and Japan, a new Indo-Pacific Strategy as well as a more active engagement with NATO and EU member states, in particular in the defence sector.
Revised version of a paper presented at the conference on “New Convergences in EU-ROK Economic Security Relations”, organised in Rome on 30 January 2024 by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI).
1. Russia’s war and global polarisation
2. The military cooperation between Russia and North Korea
3. South Korea’s security strategy during the Yoon presidency
4. The strategic US-ROK-Japan strategic triangle
5. Yoon’s Indo-Pacific strategy
6. New avenues for cooperation between Europe and South Korea
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