%0 Journal Article
%T Economic Development and South Korea¡¯s UN PKO Participation
%A Min Ye
%A Quan Li
%A Uk Heo
%J Journal of Asian and African Studies
%@ 1745-2538
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0021909617709490
%X In this paper, we develop a theory on how economic development in South Korea has reshaped its foreign policy and examine the rising middle power¡¯s personnel contributions to the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations (PKOs) using a supply-side rational choice model. Not only do the results reaffirm economic development as the fundamental driving force of South Korea¡¯s growing contributions to UN PKOs, a handful of factors that influence South Korea¡¯s decision on UN PKO participation were also discovered. This study highlights an important approach to bridge our knowledge of the global peacekeeping endeavors and individual countries¡¯ self-interested calculation
%K Economic development
%K foreign policy
%K South Korea
%K UN peacekeeping operations (PKO)
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021909617709490