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Getting to yes in Korea
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Publisher
Paradigm Publishers
Publication Date
c2010
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Acknowledgments
Foreword / Governor Bill Richardson
1. How Korea Became Critical
A cockpit of war
A failing rogue state equipped with nuclear arms
North Korea as a possible player in a zone of peace and commerce
Axioms for foreign policy
2. How Korea Became Korea
A proud nation
Emergence in the shadow of China
Unique forms of Confucianism
Literacy
Coping with complexity
3. How Korea Became Japan
A weak government and insular culture subjugated by an expansionist Japan while America watched and did nothing
U.S. commitments to national self-determination excluding Korea and other smaller nations
4. How One Korea Became Two
Rooseveltian Realpolitik
Sacrificing Korea and the Baltics to appease Stalin and defeat the Axis
Origins of the thirty-eighth parallel
5. How North Korea Got the Bomb
North Korea's demands for nuclear science, power, and weaponry
Comradely differences and North Korea's commitment to self-reliance and the military first
6. How Kissinger and Zhou Enlai Got to Yes
Lessons from cold war détentes
GRIT
Mutual gain and openness
7. How to Get to Yes across Cultures
High-context versus low-context diplomacy
The significance of distinct cultures of diplomacy
8. How Carter and Clinton Got Closer to Yes with Pyongyang
Washington using both carrots and sticks, Track 1 and Track 2 diplomacy
Americans discovering rational and sentient humans in Pyongyang
9. How Bush and Kim Jong Il Got to Deadlock
Bush's essentialist outlook, using neither sticks nor carrots
Bush and Rice dragging their heels and then facing a nuclear-armed DPRK
10. How Ideas and Free Will Can Trump Hard Power and Fortuna
Material forces that condition but do not determine what happens
The roles of timing and coincidence
Black swans
Individual leaders who prevail over forces and fortuna
11. How to Avoid the Worst and Foster Better Futures
Alternative futures
The spectrum from global war to a security system for Northeast Asia
Lessons for diplomacy
12. How Should Obama Deal with Authoritarians?
Dangers of summitry
Utility of looking for mutual gain even with dictators
Letting professionals do the work
Experiences with the USSR and Libya
Grand bargains versus limited accords
13. How to Get to Yes in Korea?
Challenges and policy dilemmas
Human rights and/or arms control?
Trust and/or arms control?
How to fathom outliers?
What paradigms for coping with uncertainty?
What could it mean to get to yes in Korea?
From negative to positive peace?
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9781594514074
9781594514067
9781594514067
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