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This book explores the state of play on the Korean peninsula, where old conflicts remain latent. Regarding security on the Korean Peninsula, however, this book challenges the belief that the internal affairs of states should be discounted and posits that to have a fuller perspective of comprehensive peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula, all aspects of the security spectrum should be considered from the perspective of both challenges to building peace and opportunities for doing so. In particular, the internal governance functioning of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) regime will be considered, as well as the intersection between regime security, economic development and distributive justice, and South Korean perceptional, ideational, and bottom-up approaches to peace on the Korean Peninsula. Hence, this book will be of interest to scholars of the region, journalists and peace-makers.
List of contents
Part I: Internal Dynamics in North Korea.- Chapter 1: Comprehensive Peacebuilding and Development on the Korean Peninsula: An Introduction.- Chapter 2: Kim Jong Un's Policy Direction or "Line": Heading for Radicalization?.- Chapter 3: Compliance with Global Norms: A Case of North Korea and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 4: Legitimation Shuffle: Sources of North Korean Legitimacy.- Chapter 5: North Korea's Economic Statecraft: Reactive Inducements and Market Power for State Autonomy.- Chapter 6: Indo-Pacific Security: Calibrating Pyongyang's NATO Calculus amid AUKUS Fears.- Part II: South Korean Approaches.- Chapter 7: Let the Sun Shine? Inter-Korean People-to-People Diplomacy in the Absence of State-based Public Diplomacy.- Chapter 8: An Assessment of the Moon Jae-in Administration's Peace Initiative from a Framing Perspective.- Chapter 9: Beyond threatening capabilities: South Korea's Threat Perceptionof North Korea.- Chapter 10: Security, Governance, and Operationalizing the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDPN) on the Korean Peninsula.
About the author
Kadir Jun Ayhan is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Ewha Womans University Graduate School of International Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Public Diplomacy.
Brendan Howe is Dean and Professor of International Relations at Ewha Womans University Graduate School of International Studies, and President of the Asian Political and International Studies Association.
