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 xxvi
... significant alteration in or disappearance of the current political regime) would be disastrous in human terms and pose great risks to international political stability, especially if it were accompanied by civil war and military ...
... significant alteration in or disappearance of the current political regime) would be disastrous in human terms and pose great risks to international political stability, especially if it were accompanied by civil war and military ...
Pagina xxviii
... significant reform and possibly successful transition into a market economy with enhanced national political status and capabilities to the economic equivalent of life-support and reversion to the status of a Chinese tributary state ...
... significant reform and possibly successful transition into a market economy with enhanced national political status and capabilities to the economic equivalent of life-support and reversion to the status of a Chinese tributary state ...
Pagina xxix
... significant reorientation of relations between North Korea and the West. Ironically, this could encourage increased reliance on China and a gradual reversion of North Korea to a Chinese tributary state—the status quo for nearly a ...
... significant reorientation of relations between North Korea and the West. Ironically, this could encourage increased reliance on China and a gradual reversion of North Korea to a Chinese tributary state—the status quo for nearly a ...
Pagina xxxii
... significance is difficult to assess. Likewise, local firms certainly benefited from participation in local military procurement programs and later from offshore procurement programs during the Vietnam War (Rhee 1994). In the 1950s, the ...
... significance is difficult to assess. Likewise, local firms certainly benefited from participation in local military procurement programs and later from offshore procurement programs during the Vietnam War (Rhee 1994). In the 1950s, the ...
Pagina xxxv
... significantly different figures. See Cho (1994) for a discussion of this issue. THE SOUTH KOREAN ECONOMY UNTIL 1997 19 11. The government also encouraged the establishment of general trading Institute for International Economics | http ...
... significantly different figures. See Cho (1994) for a discussion of this issue. THE SOUTH KOREAN ECONOMY UNTIL 1997 19 11. The government also encouraged the establishment of general trading Institute for International Economics | http ...
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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