Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two KoreasColumbia University Press, 1 giu 2000 - 456 pagine On the Korean peninsula one of the greatest success stories of the postwar era confronts a famine-ridden—and possibly nuclear-armed—totalitarian state. The stakes are extraordinarily high for both North and South Korea and for countries such as the United States that have a direct stake in these affairs. This study, the most comprehensive volume to date on the subject, examines the current situation in the two Koreas in terms of three major crises: the nuclear confrontation between the United States and North Korea, the North Korean famine, and the South Korean financial crisis. The future of the peninsula is then explored under three alternative scenarios: successful reform in North Korea, collapse and absorption (as happened in Germany), and "muddling through" in which North Korea, supported by foreign powers, makes ad hoc, regime-preserving reforms that fall short of fundamental transformation. |
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Pagina xi
... significant implications for the United States and indeed for all of Northeast Asia. The nuclear confrontation between North Korea and the United States, and the contemporaneous famine in North Korea, have dramatically raised the ante ...
... significant implications for the United States and indeed for all of Northeast Asia. The nuclear confrontation between North Korea and the United States, and the contemporaneous famine in North Korea, have dramatically raised the ante ...
Pagina xii
... significant changes in an unsustainable status quo. The Institute for International Economics is a private nonprofit institution for the study and discussion of international economic policy. Its purpose is to analyze important issues ...
... significant changes in an unsustainable status quo. The Institute for International Economics is a private nonprofit institution for the study and discussion of international economic policy. Its purpose is to analyze important issues ...
Pagina xxiii
... significant relevance both for the future prospects of the South Korean economy and for South Korean attitudes toward developments in the North. On the one hand, the crisis has strengthened feelings in South Korea that it is unprepared ...
... significant relevance both for the future prospects of the South Korean economy and for South Korean attitudes toward developments in the North. On the one hand, the crisis has strengthened feelings in South Korea that it is unprepared ...
Pagina xxiv
... significant increase in exposure to international trade and investment (much of this with South. 8 AVOIDING THE APOCALYPSE 10 AVOIDING THE APOCALYPSE 11. Former Defense Secretary William Perry, Institute for International Economics ...
... significant increase in exposure to international trade and investment (much of this with South. 8 AVOIDING THE APOCALYPSE 10 AVOIDING THE APOCALYPSE 11. Former Defense Secretary William Perry, Institute for International Economics ...
Pagina xxv
... significant share of the population at peril. Moreover, North Korea differs in some significant ways from other socialist regimes that were able to survive self-inflicted famines earlier in this century. First, unlike the others, the ...
... significant share of the population at peril. Moreover, North Korea differs in some significant ways from other socialist regimes that were able to survive self-inflicted famines earlier in this century. First, unlike the others, the ...
Sommario
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The North Korean Economy | lxxv |
The Nuclear Confrontation | 3-74 |
The SlowMotion Famine in the North | 3-102 |
The Financial Crisis in the South | 3-126 |
The Prospect for Successful Reform in the North | 3-182 |
The Implications of North Korean Collapse | 285 |
Can the North Muddle Through? | 323 |
Conclusions | 347 |
References | 377 |
Appendix | 401 |
Index
| 405 |
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