The Change Toward Cooperation in the George W. Bush Administration's Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Toward North Korea

ISBN-13: 9783631602133 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 185 str.

Schneider, Jonas

Opis

This book offers a case study in foreign policy change: It examines why the Bush administration suddenly redirected its nuclear nonproliferation policy toward North Korea in the aftermath of North Korea s first nuclear test in October 2006, abandoning its former confrontational approach in favor of a more accommodating line. Existing explanations of this course reversal draw on the security implications of a growing crisis on the Korean Peninsula, U.S. domestic politics, and changing decision-making dynamics within the Bush administration. Employing before-after comparison, the study refutes these accounts and it offers an alternative explanation: The Bush administration altered its nonproliferation policy toward North Korea toward a cooperative course because after the nuclear test, it perceived fundamentally improved prospects for fruitful cooperation on North Korea s denuclearization."

Spis treści

Contents: The Change in the Bush Administration's Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy toward North Korea - The Implications of North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program for the Security of the United States - The Prospects for Six-Party Cooperation - The Domestic Politics of U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy toward North Korea - The Decision-Making Process within the Bush Administration.

O autorze

The Author: Jonas Schneider, born in 1981, studied Political Science at Jena University and the University of California, Berkeley (USA).