The Us Versus the North Korean Nuclear Threat: Mitigating the Nuclear Security Dilemma

ISBN-13: 9780815375456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str.

Er-Win Tan

Opis

A study of US-North Korean interaction using the security dilemma as a conceptual frame of analysis is thus not only hugely topical, but also particularly relevant for the 21st century on theoretical as well as empirical grounds. Is there the prospect of a security dilemma contagion if North Korea acquire nuclear weapons capability leading to an Asia Pacific wide nuclear arms race?  This book examines this contentious issue in-depth and explores the difficult choices policymakers face as a result of the uncertainty in international politics.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Security Dilemma  2. Theories of Mitigation  3. Background to US-North Korean Interaction  4. The 1993-94 Nuclear Crisis  5. From the Agreed Framework to the Joint Communiqué of 2000  6. Confrontation and the HEU Program  7. Bush Chooses Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea  8. Conclusion

O autorze

Er-Win Tan is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Department of International and Strategic Studies at the University of Malaya, Malaysia.