| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 戰略暨國際事務研究所 === 106 === In view of the increasingly severe security challenges in East Asia, the trilateral alliance among the United States, Japan, and South Korea is highly anticipated, but it also faces impenetrable barriers, challenges and obstacles to embrace and overcome. Whether in the South China Sea, China’s continuing aggressive actions, or North Korea’s missiles and nuclear threat, the United States, Japan, and South Korea face common threats while promoting common interests. In this regard, the viability of the three-party alliances seems quite high. Nevertheless, due to the unresolved historical issues between Japan and South Korea, and the long-term lack of mutual trust between the two sides, the improvement of relation between Japan and South Korea is not smooth, and it has also caused the trilateral alliance to hamper the development to a certain extent. Owing to that, I try to study the interactive perspectives between the two theories by analyzing structural factors at the international level through structural realism and constructivism to explore the colloective identities and ideas within South Korea to combine these two approaches and thus exploring the feasibility and limitations of the U.S.-Japan-South Korea trilateral alliance.
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