Strategic Thinking about the Korean Nuclear Crisis: Four Parties Caught Between North Korea and the United States

by Gilbert Rozman

Book Overview

Often lost in the discussion about the nuclear crisis are its regional dynamics. Since 2002, China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea have struggled to navigate between the unsettling belligerence of North Korea and the unilateral insistence of the United States. This book focuses on their strategic thinking over four stages of the crisis. Drawing on sources from each of the countries, it examines how the four perceived their role in the Six-Party Talks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230108474
• ISBN13: 9780230108479
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"