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A country of stark contradictions and puzzles, North Korea exhibits
uncanny resilience in the face of external shocks and internal
woes, raising important questions of theoretical and real-world
significance. What has made it possible for North Korea to defy the
classical realist axiom, 'The strong do what they have the power to
do and the weak accept what they have to accept'? What is the
nature of the North Korean threat in post-Cold War Northeast Asia?
What kind of bargaining leverage does Pyongyang exercise in
system-maintaining survival strategies? What are North Korea's
prospects for sustaining such survival strategies in the uncertain
years ahead? This volume offers a major reappraisal of the changing
relationship between North Korea and its neighboring powers in the
post-Cold War era in both theoretical and practical terms. The
contributors examine the complex interplay of global, regional, and
national forces that have influenced and shaped the changing
patterns of conflict and cooperation in North Korea's relationships
with China, Russia, and Japan and with the United States. Within
the context of Northeast Asian geopolitics, the book tracks,
explains, and assesses North Korea's survival strategies in both
the security and economic domains, as well as the prospects of
these strategies in the coming years.
Is Northeast Asia primed for peace or ripe for great-power rivalry?
In this turbulent region, all the world-order challenges of arms
control and disarmament, global North-South tensions, human rights
and humanitarian intervention, environmental protection and
eco-development, and democratization and humane governance are
concentrated. More than any other part of the world, the divided
Korean peninsula is the strategic crossroad where the four major
regional/global powers-the United States, Russia, China, and
Japan-uneasily interact. This authoritative work explores the
complex and evolving interplay of national, regional, and global
forces influencing Northeast Asia's security, economy, and
identity. Written by a team of leading scholars, the book presents
a variety of theoretical perspectives and case studies to offer a
comprehensive analysis of the pressures that shape the policy
choices of China, Russia, Japan, the United States, North and South
Korea, and Taiwan. The authors' historically and culturally
informed narratives help track and explain the changes and
continuities of relationships within the region and with the United
States and Russia. Concise and current, this book will be essential
reading for all those concerned with the role of a changing
Northeast Asia in world politics.
Challenging dominant assumptions in international relations,
Altered States demonstrates that national political institutions
change more frequently-and less dramatically-than is commonly
thought and with important consequences for the political
landscape. Combining theory with solid empirical research-including
archival evidence and interviews-the contributors explore the
causes and consequences of institutional transformation in the
United States, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia and the former
Soviet Republics, and Cuba. Altered States highlights the dynamic
and interactive relationship between national political
institutions and reform-minded policy entrepreneurs, a perspective
that will interest scholars and policy makers alike.
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