Abstract Since the mid-1990s, much has been written about the potentially disruptive impact of China if it emerges as a peer competitor challenging the United…
Topic: East Asian Security
Abstract The United States faces multiple national security challenges, but in the longer sweep of history it is our response to the rise of Chinese…
Abstract Conventional wisdom argues that President Obama inherited a U.S. reputation that was badly damaged around the world. While this may hold true in Europe,…
Abstract In East Asia the United States cultivated a “hub and spokes” system of discrete, exclusive alliances with the Republic of Korea, the Republic of…
Abstract The continued relevance of the U.S. bilateral alliance system in Asia appears most tested by questions of regional architecture. International relations and areas studies…
Summary Since the 1990s, the American government has under prioritized the North Korean threat to global security, according to Bruce Bechtol, an associate professor of…
Summary In Red Rogue, Bruce Bechtol analyzes the changing nature of North Korea’s national defense, foreign policy, and illicit economic activities in the post–9/11 era. He…
Summary North Korea’s foreign policy behavior has long intrigued scholars, puzzled laymen, frustrated negotiators, and aggravated policy-makers. This book brings together the work of ten…
Abstract A wave of recent scholarship, built on rich empirical research, provides new perspectives on enduring questions about North Korea. Three books, in particular—Patrick McEachern’s Inside…
Abstract Negotiating with North Korea is all about contradictions. What can be important one day can become unimportant the next. A position they hold stubbornly…
Summary Former White House official Victor Cha has written the definitive volume on North Korea, arguably the world’s most menacing and mysterious nation. In The Impossible…
Summary This book examines the major security and related issues between the United States, Japan and North Korea (officially, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…
Summary In early 2002, in his fateful state of the union address, President Bush described North Korea as being a member of the “Axis of…
Summary This book examines the place of multilateralism in Russia’s foreign policy and Russia’s engagement with multilateral institutions. Throughout the post-Soviet period, both Yeltsin and…
Summary This book examines reform of the Russian military since the end of the Cold War. It explores the legacy of the Soviet era, explaining…
