Fission and Fusion of Allies

Lyong Choi is Associate Professor of the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Hanyang University. He was Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Korea Military Academy when this book was written. He obtained a Ph.D. in international history from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on issues of modern and contemporary American, East Asian, and Korean history. He published “Human Rights, Popular Protest and Jimmy Carter’s Plan to Withdraw U.S. Troops from South Korea” for Diplomatic History in 2017, “North Korea and Zimbabwe, 1978–1982: from the strategic alliance to the symbolic comradeship between Kim Il Sung and Robert Mugabe” in 2017 and “Re-thinking Normalization between ROK and PRC in the Early 1990s: The South Korean Perspective” in 2014, and “The First Nuclear Crisis in the Korean Peninsula, 1975- 76,” in 2013 for Journal of Cold War History. Jooyoung Lee (Ph.D., History, Brown University) is anAssistant Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. His research topics include the histories of U.S. democracy promotion, transnational human rights politics, and international nuclear diplomacy. He is particularly interested in examining the roles that various ideas such as democracy, human rights, liberalism have played in international relations. He also considers U.S. diplomacy in the global context by paying attention to how U.S. policy has been constrained on the stage of international relations and how the U.S. has tried to overcome these constraints. He has published articles in Interventions, Diplomatic History, Journal of American-East Asian Relations as well as in several Korean history journals. 

Prologue.- Chapter 1 The Origin of the ROK Nuclear Program.- Chapter 2 The U.S. and the Emerging Threat of Proliferation: Opportunities and risks for the non-proliferation regimes created in the changing context of the Cold War order, 1960–1974.- Chapter 3 The Rise and Downfall of Gaullism and France’s Nuclear Deals with Third World States, 1945–1974.- Chapter 4 The Coexistence of the ROK–France–IAEA Nuclear Cooperation Agreement and the ROK–U.S. Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, 1975.- Chapter 5 The Fall of the Gaullist Technocrats and End of the ROK Nuclear weapons Program, 1976–79; Epilogue.