Harrison Korean Endgame

A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement
With a New afterword by the author
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2491-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

Selig S. Harrison is a former Washington Post Bureau Chief in Northeast Asia and the author of five books about the continent. He served as Senior Fellow and Director of Asian Studies at the Brookings Institution and, for twenty-two years, as a Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has visited North Korea seven times and met the late President Kim Il Sung twice. He played a key role in setting the stage for the 1994 U.S. nuclear freeze agreement with Pyongyang.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrison, Selig S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword ix

Overview: The United States and Korea xiii

PART I: Will North Korea Collapse? 1

Chapter 1: The Paralysis of American Policy 3

Chapter 2: Nationalism and the "Permanent Siege Mentality" 8

Chapter 3: The Confucian Legacy 21

Chapter 4: Reform by Stealth 25

Chapter 5: Gold, Oil, and the Basket-Case Image 48

Chapter 6: Kim Jong Il and His Successors 53

PART II: Reunification: Postponing the Dream 67

Chapter 7: Trading Places 69

Chapter 8: Confederation or Absorption? 74

Chapter 9: The United States and Reunification 102

PART III: Toward U.S. Disengagement 111

Chapter 10: Tripwire 113

Chapter 11: The United States and the Military Balance 124

Chapter 12: New Opportunities for Arms Control 138

Chapter 13: Ending the Korean War 154

Chapter 14: The Tar Baby Syndrome 174

Chapter 15: Guidelines for U.S. Policy 190

PART IV: Toward a Nuclear-Free Korea 195

Chapter 16: The U.S. Nuclear Challenge to North Korea 197

Chapter 17: The North Korean Response 201

Chapter 18: The 1994 Compromise: Can It Survive? 215

Chapter 19: Japan and Nuclear Weapons 231

Chapter 20: South Korea and Nuclear Weapons 245

Chapter 21: Guidelines for U.S. Policy 257

PART V: Korea in Northeast Asia 285

Chapter 22: Will History Repeat Itself? 287

Chapter 23: Korea, Japan, and the United States 290

Chapter 24: Korea, China, and the United States 306

Chapter 25: Korea, Russia, and the United States 328

Chapter 26: Then and Now: The Case for a Neutral Korea 347

Notes to the Chapters 357

Index 393

Über Autor(innen)

Selig S. Harrison is a former Washington Post Bureau Chief in Northeast Asia and the author of five books about the continent. He served as Senior Fellow and Director of Asian Studies at the Brookings Institution and, for twenty-two years, as a Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has visited North Korea seven times and met the late President Kim Il Sung twice. He played a key role in setting the stage for the 1994 U.S. nuclear freeze agreement with Pyongyang.