South Korea at the crossroads: autonomy and alliance in an era of rival powers

South Korean strategic choices -- Strategic choices under authoritarian rule -- Roh Tae-Woo : Nordpolitik and democratization -- Kim Dae-Jung and the sunshine policy -- Roh Moo-Hyun's balancer policy -- Lee Myung-Bak's global Korea policy -- Park Geun-Hye's Asian paradox -- The paradox of South Korea's middle-power status -- Korea between the United States and China -- Unification and Korean strategic choices -- Epilogue : South Korean strategic choices and the U.S.-ROK alliance -- Select source documents: 1953 mutual defense treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea -- 1972 North-South joint communique between the two Koreas -- 1991 agreement on reconciliation, non-aggression, and exchanges and cooperation between South and North Korea -- 2000 June 15th North-South joint declaration -- 2007 October North-South joint declaration -- 2009 statement on joint vision for the alliance of the United States of America and the Republic of Korea -- 2013 joint declaration in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the alliance -- Between the Republic of Korea and the United States of America -- Chronology of important events in South Korean strategic history.