Abstract A wave of recent scholarship, built on rich empirical research, provides new perspectives on enduring questions about North Korea. Three books, in particular—Patrick McEachern’s Inside…
Country or Region: North Korea
Abstract Much as political scientists would like to believe otherwise, the strength of any new U.S. foreign policy doctrine historically stands not on its principles…
Abstract Discussion of North Korea’s nuclear programme and what to do about it has become ideological and emotionally charged. Convinced that good policy serving American…
Abstract Negotiating with North Korea is all about contradictions. What can be important one day can become unimportant the next. A position they hold stubbornly…
Summary Former White House official Victor Cha has written the definitive volume on North Korea, arguably the world’s most menacing and mysterious nation. In The Impossible…
Summary With little faith in reaching a peaceful and sustainable solution to the nuclear question though engagement and negotiations with the regime in Pyongyang, some…
Summary This book examines the major security and related issues between the United States, Japan and North Korea (officially, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…
Summary In early 2002, in his fateful state of the union address, President Bush described North Korea as being a member of the “Axis of…
Abstract Coupling carrots that actually entice with tough demands to address North Korea’s nuclear program, reduce its conventional forces, and reform its outdated economic system…
Summary The regime of Kim Jong-Il has been called “mad,” “rogue,” even, by the Wall Street Journal, the equivalent of an “unreformed serial killer.” Yet, despite…
Summary The North Korean nuclear program is headed in a dangerous direction. Yet the United States and its allies have not set forth a coherent…
Continue reading Abramowitz, Morton, James T. Laney, and Eric Heginbotham
Summary The contributors discuss Soviet-North Korean nuclear relations, economic and military aspects of the nuclear programme, the nuclear energy sector, North Korea’s negotiations with the…
Continue reading Moltz, James Clay and Alexandre Y. Mansourov
Summary North Korea possesses nuclear weapons, while Iran is poised to acquire them in the next decade. How the United States and other nations seek…
Summary Japan’s Economic Power and Security is the first study to investigate, in depth, Japan’s reaction to the recent diplomatic, military, and economic security crisis…
Abstract The Asian Pacific region is highly unstable, but not for the reasons usually assumed. Contrary to the assertions of Realists, who argue multipolarity makes…
