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Environmental Security and New Middle Powers: The Case of South Korea

2014; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/14799855.2013.874336

1555-2764

Iain Watson, Chandra Lal Pandey,

Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies

AbstractThis article considers the role of new middle powers in the climate change debate. We focus on the issue of “green growth.” We argue that new middle powers such as South Korea are increasingly proactive in promoting this green growth agenda and, as a result, challenging conventional realist and liberal approaches and expectations to new middle powers. This diplomacy is aiming to bridge states, great and small, by leading to strategic breakthroughs in the current climate change negotiation deadlock. The article discusses South Korea’s green growth initiative and identifies how this initiative affects South Korea’s middle power role in the global environmental debate with respect to its inclusion in the Environment Integrity Group and its initiative the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). Notes1. 1.“President’s New Year Address to the Nation,” The Korea Herald, January, 2011. 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