Steven Casey - The Korean War at Sixty: New Approaches to the Study of the Korean War

Korea used to be the forgotten war. Now, however, experts widely view it as a pivotal moment in the history of the Cold War, while its legacy still scars contemporary East Asian politics.

The sixtieth anniversary of the Korean War is a fitting time both to assess the current state of historiography on the conflict and to showcase new research on its different dimensions. This book contains six essays by leading experts in the field. These essays explore all aspects of the war, from collective security and alliance relations, to home front politics and historical memory. They are also international in scope, focusing not just on the familiar Western belligerents but also on the actions of the two Koreas, China and the Soviet Union.

These stimulating essays shed new light on various aspects of the Korean War experience, as well as examining why the war remains so important to the politics of the region.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Strategic Studies.

Steven Casey is Reader in International History at the LSE. He is author of Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany (2001), and Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion (2008), which won the Truman Book Award.

New Approaches to the Study of the Korean War

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Steven Casey

First published 2012
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William Stueck is distinguished research professor at the University of Georgia, USA, and has written extensively on the Korean War, including The Road to Confrontation: American Policy Toward China and Korea, 19471950 (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press 1981), The Korean War: An International History (Princeton UP 1995) and Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History (Princeton UP 2002).

Boram Yi received her PhD in history at the University of Georgia, USA in 2007 and is now a lecturer in history at the University of Baltimore. She is currently working with William Stueck on two books, a history of the negotiation of the first status-of-forces agreement between the United States and Korea (concluded in 1966), and a topical history of USKorean relations.

Zhihua Shen is professor of history and director of Center for Cold War International History Studies at East China Normal University. A leading authority on Cold War studies in China, he has published widely on the history of Sino-Soviet relations and the Korean War, including more than 80 academic articles and 10 books in Chinese, English, Russian and many other languages. His representative works include : Sulian zhuanjia zai Zhongguo [Soviet Experts in China] (2009, 2002); Shikao yu xuanze: Cong zhishi fengzi huiyi dao fan youpai yundong [Contemplation and Choice: From a Conference on Intellectuals to Anti-rightist Movement] (2008); ZhongSu guanxi shigang, 19171991 [An Outline of the History of Sino-Soviet Relations, 19171991] (2007); Mao Zedong, Sidalin yu Chaoxian zhanzheng [Mao Zedong, Stalin and the Korean War] (2003). He is editor of several important document collections: Meiguo dui Hua qingbao jiemi dangan, 19481976 [US Intelligence Estimates on China] (2009); Chaoxian zhanzheng: Eguo danganguan de jiemi wenjian [The Korean War: Declassified Documents from the Russian Archives], 3 vols. (2003); Sulian lishi dangan xuanbian [Collection of Selected Soviet Historical Documents], 34 vols. (2002).

Robert Barnes is a final year PhD student in the International History Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His PhD thesis is entitled The UN(Equal) Alliance: US Commonwealth Relations, the United Nations and the Korean War, 19501953 .

Colin F. Jackson is an assistant professor of strategy at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Professor Jackson is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD, Political Science), the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School (MBA, Finance), Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (MA, International Economics and Strategic Studies), Princeton Universitys Woodrow Wilson School (BA, Public and International Affairs). Professor Jacksons current research includes work on counterinsurgency, military operationsin urban terrain,public and privatesector risk management, organizational learning, and intelligence operations. His most recent publications include two chapters on US Army and Special Forces transformation in the 1990s in Harvey Sapolsky, Brendan Green, Benjamin Friedmans edited volume, Creation without Destruction: US Military Innovation Since the Cold War . Prior to entering academia, Professor Jackson worked for several years in the corporate sector in financial trading, telecommunications, transportation markets, and power development. He also served four years on active duty with the US Army in Germany as an armor and cavalry officer.

Steven Casey is senior lecturer in international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is author of Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany (New York: OUP 2001), and Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion (New York: OUP 2008), which won the Neustadt Prize in American Politics and was runner-up for the Mott Award in Journalism and Communications Research. Dr Casey has written numerous articles on World War II, the early Cold War, and the Korean War. He was also the recipient of the Harry Truman Scholars Award in 2005.