Korea’s identity and grand strategy in post-liberal age

We have entered an era in which binaries and idioms such as “shrimp caught between whales," “anti-communism,” and “security alliance with the U.S, economic alignment with China” no longer adequately captures the geopolitical reality surrounding the Korean Peninsula. Beyond merely navigating the fault lines of U.S.-China hegemonic rivalry, South Korea has arrived at a historic inflection point where it must redefine not only its survival strategy, but its very national identity and strategic mode of existence. Recent geopolitical developments have largely vindicated Scott Snyder, president and CEO of the Korea Economic Institute of America, who warned that the U.S.–South Korea alliance faces its greatest vulnerability not from external threats but from within. The far-reaching consequences of U.S. President Donald Trump's foreign policy have underscored this reality, shaking the foundations of traditional American alliance structures while accelerating the dismantling of the post–World War II multilateral, rules-based liberal international order. Under Trump, allies are i

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