North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order - When Bad Behaviour Pays

Zusatztext North Korea & the Global Nuclear Order traces the history of the North's nuclear program and its negotiations with the United States. Howell describes North Korea's stratagem as "strategic delinquency" and asks "how North Korea has become a nuclear-armed state and how we might account for its behavior over the past thirty years?" Informationen zum Autor Edward Howell is a lecturer in Politics at New College, University of Oxford. His research concerns the international relations of East Asia, with a focus on the Korean Peninsula. He has been a contributing writer for the Economist Intelligence Unit, a Korea Foundation-Next Generation Policy Fellow at Chatham House, London, and an Emerging Leaders Fellow of the Ministry of Unification of the Republic of Korea. Edward also offers extensive media analysis on the international relations of East Asia, including for The Spectator, the Daily Telegraph, and BBC World News. Klappentext Covering a time period from the 1990s to the present-day, and using unprecedentedly rich empirical evidence, Edward Howell makes the overarching argument that North Korea has strategically deployed behaviour that breaks international norms in order to reap benefits. Zusammenfassung Covering a time period from the 1990s to the present-day, and using unprecedentedly rich empirical evidence, Edward Howell makes the overarching argument that North Korea has strategically deployed behaviour that breaks international norms in order to reap benefits. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue Introduction 1: The world through Pyongyang's eyes 2: Strategic delinquency: the benefits of norm-breaking 3: The quest for significance: the first nuclear crisis of the 1990s 4: A nuclear North Korea: the costs and benefits of delinquency 5: Strategic patience meets strategic delinquency 6: Bad romance: Trump, Kim, and the quest for nuclear status Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography ...

Product details

• Authors: Howell , Dr Edward (Lecturer in Politics Howell, Edward Howell
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2023
• EAN: 9780192888327
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288832-7
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, International Relations, Political science & theory, Political leaders & leadership, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Political science and theory, Nuclear weapons, Political leaders and leadership, North Korea, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, North; Korea; nuclear