Thèse de doctorat en Relations internationales
Sous la direction de Michel Korinman.
Soutenue en 1998
Meme apres la fin de la guerre froide, la coree vit a contre- courant. Ce qui domine en coree, c'est encore la logique qui prevalait au temps de la guerre froide. Le yemen et l'allemagne etant chacun reunifies respectivement, la coree reste donc le dernier pays encore divise. La reunification allemande est pleine de significations pour la coree, car le processus de la reunification allemande a exerce une influence directe sur la politique sud-coreenne. Une eventuelle reunification coreenne, liee etroitement aux problemes de la securite regionale et de la confrontation hegemonique des puissances, est un theme geopolitique par excellence. Car le conflit intercoreen et la division territoriale constituent un champ geopolitique ou se manifestent des rivalites de pouvoirs et une confrontation de differentes representations. La geopolitique est une maniere differente de voir la complexite des rivalites. En ce qui concerne la coree, les rivalites geopolitiques existent a plusieurs niveaux. Il y a les rivalites entre etats presents dans l'asie du nord-est, puis celles entre deux ideologies, celles entre deux etats coreens et celles inter-regionales au sein de la coree. On considere qu'une eventuelle reunification pourrait destabiliser la region car, elle s'accompagnerait d'un bouleversement des rapports de forces. Le maintien du statu quo, a savoir la division coreenne est considere comme un facteur de stabilite a court et moyen terme et comme un facteur d'instabilite a long terme. De par les differentes circonstances, la reunification allemande ne pourrait servir de modele pour la reunification coreenne. La parallelisation entre l'allemagne et la coree est, pour ainsi dire, geopolitiquement uncorrecte, meme si elle est politiquement correcte
German reunification seen from korea and geopolitics of korean reunification
Even though the cold war finished, korea goes against the global current, what predominates in korea is still the logic of the cold war. As yemen and germany was reunified turn by turn, korea remains the last country divided in two. German reunification is significant because the german reunification process has influenced directly on south korean policy. An eventual korean reunification which has something to do with the regional security and the powers' hegemonic confrontation is a theme in which the regional powers' geopolitical visions are concentrated. Korean reunification is an excellent subject of geopolitics, because the interkorean conflict and the territorial division constitute a geopolitical domain where there are rivalries of powers and a confrontation of different representations. Geopolitics is a different way to look at the complexity of rivalries. When it comes to korea, there exist geopolitical rivalries in diverse levels. There are rivalries between nations in north-east asia, rivalries between two ideologies, rivalries between two korean states and inter-regional rivalries in korea. We suppose that a korean reunification destabilize the area since that the reunification could be accompanied with an upset of the relations of forces. The maintenance of statu quo (division) is considered as a factor of stability in the short term and as a factor of destabilization in the long term. Because of the different circumstances, german reunification cannot serve korea a reunification model. The parallelization between germany and korea is, what is to say, geopolitically incorrect even if it is politically correct