한국의 예비전력에 관한 연구경향 분석: 1970년~2015년 국내학술지 게재 논문을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to provide some future research directions of military reserve forces in South Korea through analyzing their research trends and content of the total eighty four articles published in scientific journals from 1970 to the present. The analytic criteria are based on each article’s fundamental materials(published period, researchers’ status and types of journals), research analysis(theoretical or prescriptive), methods(quantitative or qualitative) and scopes(conception/theme, disciplinarity and function), and content analysis(theoretical or practical). The main findings drawn from the analysis are suggested as follows. First, most articles were written by the researchers of the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses(KIDA) and were published more in specific journals of educational or research institutions than those of academic societies. The volume of research demonstrated its gradual increase during the period 1995-2010 and then its rapid jump in the last five years. Second, while pure theoretical articles were relatively few, prescriptive ones held an overwhelming majority in number, showing their methodological similarity of problem-solving orientation. And relating to data management, the community has not given undue value to quantitative methods focused on literature analysis than qualitative ones such as positively comparative case studies. And fourth, in terms of content analysis, those preceding researches showed 'military mobilization' predominated 'reserve forces' in concept and its one-sided propensity for simplicity in the scope of theme; most researches concentrated their disciplinary orientation to 'public administration'; and traditional institutional analyses were more than policy and theoretical studies in their function. In conclusion, some implications for future research include identity recoordination and qualitative advancement of reserve forces, further diversity of authors and issue-areas, intensification of theoretical pursuit, balanced endeavors of research themes and methods, systematic research for reserve forces as comprehensive military ones, and openness and mutual exchange of information.