남북통일의 가능성과 그 한계 = The Possibilities and Limits of Korean Reunification

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study attempts to present a viable approach toward reunification of Korea in terms of theoretical methodolgy. It defends the pluralist approach in contradistinctin to the existing politicist approach. The essence of the pluralist approach under concideratin is that step-by-step economic exchanges between citizens of two Koreas are superior to crucial political choices made by political authorities of two Korea. The pluralist approach assumes that economic self-interest is more important than political commitment and that unintended consequences resulting from economic and cultural exchange are more effective in bringing about reunification in the peninsula than purposive behavior and the construction of elaborate grand designs by political elites. Certainly, this study acknowledges that the process of pluralist exchange including economic and cultural exchange does not lead autonomatically to political unity. Political elites are expected to play a proper role in the initiation of reunification efforts. Nevertheless, political authorities of Seoul and Pyongyang should maintain a laisse-faire attitude toward economic exchange between citizens of two Koreas. This study views depoliticization and a technical treatment of the reunification issues as he most promising route to ultimate political reunification. Over time integration is to spill over from the economic to the political sphere as political loyalties follow economic interests and become attached to new reunification efforts. Moreover, this study assumes that in the absence of a statesman with the vision to weld disparate publics together, Seoul and Pyongyang have no alternative but to resort to gradualism, to indirection and to pluralism.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 문제의 제기
• Ⅱ. 통일에 대한 남북한의 상이한 접근
• 1. 통일에 대한 북한의 접근
• 2. 통일에 대한 남한의 접근
• 3. 평가
• Ⅲ. 비정치주의적 다원주의 통일접근
• 1. 정치주의 접근의 제한점
• 2. 다원주의 접근의 개요
• 3. 다원주의 접근의 당위성
• 4. 다원주의 모델과 기능주의와의 차이
• Ⅳ. 전망과 결어