North Korea's New Diplomacy: Challenging Political Isolation in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9781349686575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Virginie Grzelczyk

Opis

This book examines how North Korea has managed to weather an uncertain political future and catastrophic economic system since the end of the Cold War. Emerging as a state that has successfully developed and tested missiles and nuclear weapons, North Korea has consolidated the Kim family dynasty through the appointment of Kim Jong Un as Pyongyang's latest strongman. The author provides an empirically rich account of new diplomatic recognitions, military partnerships, knowledge trade, coping mechanisms to offset international sanctions, import and export partners, foreign investment practices and engagement within the Global South. The resulting picture is that of a state that is, against all odds, mainstreaming, and becoming a more complex and relevant actor in the 21st century diplomatic world.

Spis treści

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: WHY THE NEED TO RE-EVALUATE NORTH KOREA? 

A STRENGTHENING STATE? REVISITING THE PAST

1950s–1970s: The Construction of a New System 

1970s–1980s: Defiant Politics

1990s: Transition and Famine

2000s: Nuclear Weapons Crisis and Bargaining

2010s: Kim Jong Un’s North Korea

NORTH KOREA’S FOREIGN RELATIONS: NEW TRAJECTORIES

CHAPTER 2. FRIENDS AND FOES: AN ORTHODOX STORY

ANTAGONISM: A CLASH OF IDEOLOGY AND POWER

Japan 

The United States

CLOSENESS: A COMMUNIST WORLD

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 

The People’s Republic of China

Satellites and Proxies

SIGNIFICANT OTHER: SOUTH KOREA AS A BROTHER IN ARMS 

FAMINE, DROUGHT, AID AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY 

CHAPTER 3. NOTHING BUT WORDS? RHETORIC AND BEYOND

PROPAGANDA AS AN ANALYICAL TOOL 

A Rhetorical World: From Indifference to Hope for Change 

DPRK Meets World: From Delegations to Protocols and Agreements

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMACY? 

Post-Cold War Environment: New Patterns of Interaction 

Managing and Maintaining Traditional Ties

F

Track-Two: NGOs and Learning about the World 

From Track-Two to Multi-Track 

CHAPTER 4. SECURING FREEDOM

SMALL, ROGUE, AND ISOLATED? FRAMING THE DPRK’S SECURITY EVOLUTION

TRADING CONVENTIONAL SECURITY

The Early Years: DPRK as a Military Recipient

The Latest Years: The DPRK as a Weapons Supplier 

NUCLEAR COOPERATION

North Korea’s Cold War Nuclear Program 

Finding North Korea’s Nuclear Mentor 

CHAPTER 5. NAVIGATING INTERDEPENDENCE

THE REALITY OF DEVELOPING AS A SANCTIONED COUNTRY

A Web of Sanctions 

Sanctions: How to Make Them Work 

Profit-Making Goods Smuggling

Sanctioned Goods and Collateral Damages 

EXPORTING TO IMPORT 

DPRK Workers Abroad

Mansudae Arts and Statues 

CHAPTER 6. THE DPRK AND THE POLITICS OF MAINSTREAMING 

PARTICIPATING IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 

Global Governance as a Pathway to Anti-Hegemonic Agendas

BECOMING PART OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM

Production and Investment

DPRK as a Connected State

BEYOND COLLAPSE THEORY: A FUTURE FOR THE DPRK?

Securing Modernity

Partnerships for Long-Term Change

CHAPTER 7. CONCLUSION: FOSTERING COOPERATION IN A MULTIPOLAR WORLD

BROKERS AND FRIENDS

Brokering Re-Engagement

Nuclear Talks

Sustaining a Relationship with the DPRK: Uncertainties and Difficulties 

NORTH KOREA’S NEXT GAME

Peripheral Politics

Finding New Ties and New Opportunities

Optimism and the Politics of Disappointment

 

O autorze

Virginie Grzelczyk is Lecturer in International Relations at Aston University, UK. Her research focuses on security relationships over the Korean Peninsula, with publications spanning the Six-Party Talks process, North Korea’s energy security dilemma, Korean identity in the context of reunification and the concept of crisis in Northeast Asia.