The Role of State Institutions, Organizational Culture and Policy Perception in South Korea’s International Security Policymaking Process: 1998-Present

Abstract

In understanding foreign.policy outcome, institutional context, informationgathering and processing trajectory, perceptual preference, and policy dynamics are key variables. In particular bureaucratic context, information gathering/ processing dynamics, the competitive policy deliberation process, and the holistic Weltanschauung of the decision.makers in South Korea in the executive branch and the following bureaucracy are analyzed as crucial: National Security Council (NSC), Ministry of National Defence (MND), National Intelligence Service (NIS), Ministry of Unification (MOU), and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT).