One Peninsula, Multiple Fronts: Korea in Great Power Rivalry
In this In-Depth Paper for the
Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), Luis Simón and Ramón Pacheco Pardo examine the strategic significance of the Korean Peninsula in the broader context of intensifying great power rivalry and growing interdependence between the Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic regions. It situates Korea within emerging adversarial alignments, marked by coordination among China, Russia, the DPRK and Iran. It also highlights constraints on the ROK’s strategic posture arising from its economic and political ties with Beijing and Moscow. Through a scoping exercise and five thematic chapters, the In-Depth Paper evaluates how peacetime and wartime trade-offs influence deterrence dynamics and alliance management and calls for further research on simultaneous crises across the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific theatres.
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