The Historical Prospect of American Military in the 21st Century

he United States, the leader of the contemporary world order, will lead once more the new world order in the 21st century. In this situation, the American military, which played a leading role in maintaining the world order in the 20th century, is now trying to transform itself for the 21st century. This analysis tries to forecast the future transformation of U.S. military forces from the historical perspective. After the American-Spanish war in 1898, the United States became one of the leading powers in the Europe dominant international order. As a military basis for the rise of great power, the United States developed rapidly its naval power. The U.S. navy reached the level of the British navy, the globally leading power, in the 1920s. After the second world war, the United States began to lead the world order. As a new basis for the world military order, the United States developed nuclear power. During the cold war period, the United States maintained its nuclear dominance. After the end of the cold war with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States began to give emphasis on the information power. Thus, the U.S. military is trying to develop complex military forces which can fight simultaneously the modem war, nuclear war, and information war. In particular， along with the revolution of information technology, the U.S. forces will primarily focus on the improvement of its information power.본 연구는 1997년도 한국학술진흥재단 대학부설연구소 과제 연구비에 의해 연구 되었음

A Study on the Cooperation in the Asia-Pasific Area

Much has been discussed on formining the cooperation system in the Asia-Pacific area in 1990" s. It is mainly due to the remarkable economic growth and the increasing interdependence within this area. Changing situations of regional security since the end of the cold war, economic opening and the launching of WTO system, and the presence of exclusive regionalism make the cooperation in Asia-Pacific area more urgent and more important. Discussions on the cooperation issues in APEC have mainly focused on forming a regional economic community such as ED and NAFTA. But the Asia-Pacific is a vast region and it contains many countries having various political-military interests and sociocultural settings as well as economic interests. This area has relatively poor historical experience of economic cooperaton to Europe and North America. Political-military factors and sociocultural factors will influence economic liberalization and deregulation. This report examines the central issues of forming the cooperation system in Asia-Pacific area, which include market access and economic cooperation, political-military cooperation, sociocultural cooperation, relations with the sub？regionalism within this area, relations with other largescale blocs beyond this area. Consideration on these issues offers the alternative views to mere economic liberalization; Competitions for the economic or political-military hegemony will have harmful impacts on cooperation. And more inclusive and more balanced efforts are needed in political-military, economic, and sociocultural dimensions