Abstract

There have been considerable talks about Korean identity in doing political science research, but the present state of affairs is far from satisfactory. Scholars delve into how Korean political science is depedent on the American one in its perspectives and issue areas, but failed to get out of the dependent situation. One suspection is that those independent-minded shoclars still fail to escape the mind-set of Western intellectual community and thus are afraid of pursuing a new start. This paper suggest to start a Korean way of doing political science by selecting “Korean” problems with Koreans' view points which often means the problems and viewpoints of weak states in international relations. By doing so, we can explore new areas in international relations and challenge great-power-dominated worldviews. We should not be afraid of being crude and rudimentary in pursuing this alternative “Korean” political science because every other field of scholarly community passes this stage.