Erratum : Calibrating Differences between Biden and Trump 2.0 Administration: What’s at Stake for Seoul?

With upcoming return of Donald Trump in the White House, calibrating the differences and similarities between Biden and Trump 2.0 administration is crucial for assessing how South Korea might navigate its strategic priorities in response to potential shifts in US policy. On the basis of neoclassical realist approach to international relations, which perceives state behaviors to be outcome of first and foremost relative material capabilities and intervening domestic unit-level variables such as decision-makers’ perceptions, this article aims to, first briefly sketch and argue for emergence of a multipolar order and how it changes US’s strategic priorities; second, trace statements by Trump, his potential cabinet appointees, as well as Republican’s official 2024 Party Platform, in order to draw how Trump might differently and/or similarly shape their policy to multipolar order; and lastly present what Trump would mean for the Korean Peninsula, and how South Korea might recalibrate its foreign policy strategies.