How Democracy Facilitates South Korean Interest in Free Trade Agreements

• 발행기관: 한국학술연구원
• 저자명: A. Cooper Drury Jonathan Krieckhaus Chika Yamamoto
• 간행물 정보: 『Korea Observer』Vol 45, No 1, 39~60쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 정치외교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.03.30

영문 초록

In recent years South Korea has been unusually active in signingfree trade agreements (FTAs), which is usually seen as a sign of thecountry’s economic interest in expanding trade. We argue thatKorean foreign economic policy also follows a political interest, namely that Korea prefers to pursue FTAs with fellow democracies rather than with authoritarian regimes. This preference for democracieshas three complementary origins: 1) democratic dyads arepeaceful dyads, such that Korea need not worry about empoweringrival nations through FTAs, 2) democratic regimes are more accountable, such that FTAs are more likely to be enforced in a democraticregime, and 3) democratic countries are more likely to see a nationalinterest in FTAs, further increasing the chances of Korea pursuing aFTA. We test this argument with an original dataset on Korea’s FTAconsideration from 2000 to 2011, using Cox Proportional Hazardsmodels.

목차

Abstact

I. Introduction

II. Background: East Asian Regionalism and South Korea

III. Theory

IV. Data and Method

V. Results

VI. Conclusion

References

키워드

FTA Democracy South Korea Political Economy Trade