미국의 동북아 동맹전략과 동맹의 안보딜레마,그리고 한국의 국가안보전략에 대한 함의

Abstract

The national security strategy of the U.S. emphasizes, one the one hand, its capability to exercise its power unilaterally to promote its and its allies’ interests throughout the globe. One the other hand, the U.S. is seeking to build a system of regional security networks that Asia as a means to help realize the objective. However, the U.S. alliance strategy toward Northeast Asia may produce somewhat different outcome than it used to produce in the Cold War period. The end of the Cold War caused the loosening of the camp-consciousness among the nations and the emergence of a new national strategy paradigm in which the nations freely pursue their individual interests. As a result, the U.S. influence in the region is likely to decrease. It would subsequently cause alliance’s security dilemma which is likely to intervene as a constraint between the U.S. intentions and the security reality in the region.