Inside the Red Box - North Korea''s Post-Totalitarian Politics

Informationen zum Autor Patrick McEachern is a foreign service officer in Seoul and a former North Korea analyst with the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Klappentext Traditional political models fail to account for North Korea's institutional politics, making the country's actions seem surprising or confusing when, in fact, they often conform to the regime's own logic. Drawing on recent primary materials, including North Korean speeches, commentaries, and articles, Patrick McEachern, a specialist on North Korean affairs, reveals how the state's political institutions debate policy and inform and execute strategic-level decisions. Many scholars dismiss Kim Jong-Il's regime as a "one-man dictatorship" and call him the "last totalitarian leader," but McEachern identifies three major institutions that help maintain regime continuity: the cabinet, the military, and the party. Authority may be centralized, but power remains diffuse. McEachern maps this process in great detail, supplying vital perspective on North Korea's reactive policy choices, which continue to bewilder the West. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Post-totalitarian Institutionalism3. Historical Context4. North Korea's Political Institutions5. Institutional Jostling for Agenda Control! 1998-20016. Segmenting Policy and Issue Linkages! 2001-20067. Policy Reversals! 2006-20088. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: P McEachern, Patrick McEachern
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2010
• EAN: 9780231153225
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15322-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Columbia University Press; Contemporary Asia in the World; Contemporary Asia in the World
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, North Korea, Constitution: government and the state