민주화 이후 국방안보 담론투쟁과 미래지향적 발전방향

초록

Although the national defense security is recognized as a core policy domain of a country, it is one of essentially contested policy areas among different and competing parties and views. It has been the case with democratization and globalization after 2000s in South Korea. Intense argumentations on the transfer of the wartime operational control and the THAAD deployment are among the representative cases. The persuasive power of the conservative discourse will become more weak in a new media era in which the Internet and SNS are getting more dominant in the discourse formation. That will deteriorate due to the confirmation bias between the adversarial groups, the severe ideological cleavage, the intrinsic conservativeness and ambiguity of the defense security discourse, the vagueness and uncertainty of the security threats, distrust and mistrust on the government and the military, the domestic structure of political competition, and the actors beyond control. In order to cope with these problems, it will be necessary to build a future-oriented polity discourse of the defense security and to enhance its persuasive powers. The validity of the policy discourse, the credibility of the messengers, and the morality of the military are core elements for the discourse hegemony. In addition, it is important to institute a trans-partisan policy discourse community for deepening the understanding and trust among major actors and then construct a high degree of the national consensus.

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