(사)국제융복합연구원

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This study examines the ‘black box’ of South Korea’s major naval deployment decision-making processes, investigating how conflicting domestic and international factors are coordinated into final policies through specific mechanisms. By applying Graham Allison’s Bureaucratic Politics Model to analyze the establishment of the Cheonghae Unit (2009), the expansion of its operational area to the Hormuz Strait (2020), and support for intervention in the Libyan civil war (2011), the research reveals that deployment decision mechanisms systematically vary according to the nature of external pressures and the intensity of domestic interests. In the Hormuz case, bilateral alliance pressure combined with conflicting domestic interests resulted in prominent bureaucratic negotiations, while the Libya case demonstrated norm-driven decision-making due to multilateral legitimacy and less significant domestic concerns. The initial Cheonghae deployment showed a relatively consensual decision pattern as clear threats aligned with national interests. These findings provide significant theoretical and policy implications for developing South Korea’s overseas deployment strategies as a middle power and efficiently managing decision-making processes.

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