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Book The Change Toward Cooperation in the George W  Bush Administration s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Toward North Korea

Download or read book The Change Toward Cooperation in the George W Bush Administration s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Toward North Korea written by Jonas Schneider and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a case study in foreign policy change: It examines why the Bush administration suddenly redirected its nuclear nonproliferation policy toward North Korea in the aftermath of North Korea's first nuclear test in October 2006, abandoning its former confrontational approach in favor of a more accommodating line. Existing explanations of this course reversal draw on the security implications of a growing crisis on the Korean Peninsula, U.S. domestic politics, and changing decision-making dynamics within the Bush administration. Employing before-after comparison, the study refutes these accounts - and it offers an alternative explanation: The Bush administration altered its nonproliferation policy toward North Korea toward a cooperative course because after the nuclear test, it perceived fundamentally improved prospects for fruitful cooperation on North Korea's denuclearization.

Book Perspectives on U S  Policy Toward North Korea

Download or read book Perspectives on U S Policy Toward North Korea written by Sharon Richardson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Korea has been described as the most secretive country on earth. Dealing with such a closed society_one that is simultaneously seeking acceptance through nuclear relations while defying the plea to cease development of nuclear weapons_is difficult for governments and policy makers, but Perspectives on Policy Toward North Korea opens discussion on the various approaches the United States has adopted and is considering. Providing expert views on the impasse between the U.S. and North Korea, the volume addresses topics that include the negotiating strategies of the Clinton and Bush administrations, the concept of building bilateral relationships through contact of U.S. and South Korean military officers, and the benefits of allowing China to take the lead in conflict resolution. Employing both traditional and unusual methods, including diplomatic, academic, and military viewpoints, Perspectives on Policy Toward North Korea is an essential guide to a better understanding of this complicated dynamic and an important work for policy makers, analysts, and anyone interested in conflict resolution and security studies.

Book US Strategy to Stem North Korea s Nuclear Program  Assessing the Clinton and Bush Legacies

Download or read book US Strategy to Stem North Korea s Nuclear Program Assessing the Clinton and Bush Legacies written by Janne E. Nolan (1951) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Korea's nuclear program was a microcosm of the kind of complex security challenges the United States would confront in the 21st century. This case study examines the role of the US intelligence and foreign policy communities to reduce the global and regional security threats posed by nuclear proliferation in North Korea, by looking at the very different approaches adopted by the Clinton and Bush administrations. This case study focuses on the North Korean nuclear threat as a way to examine the dynamics of intelligence and policy. As the United States and Asia continue to grapple with the threat of a nuclear-armed North Korea, what are the next steps for US diplomacy? What lessons from this case study can inform future US administrations and policymakers toward their policy and negotiations with North Korea-or other states that may be embarking on a nuclear weapons program?

Book North Korea s Nuclear Program  The Clinton Administration s Response

Download or read book North Korea s Nuclear Program The Clinton Administration s Response written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very real possibility of nuclear proliferation on the Korean peninsula threatens American national security interests in Northeast Asia and poses a challenge to the international nonproliferation regime. The suspected North Korean nuclear weapons program is the primary cause of concern. Although a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Safeguards Agreement, North Korea's overt and covert behavior over the past several years has raised serious questions about its true intentions. The Clinton administration has responded to this challenge through a series of incentives and threats, the classic carrot and stick approach, in an effort to influence North Korean behavior. In particular, the U.S. has attempted to persuade North Korea's political leaders to abandon any nuclear weapons program. The paper also provides some constructive criticisms of the Clinton policy and its implementation, and evaluates whether the President's non-proliferation effort directed at the Korean peninsula can serve as an effective model for possible proliferation elsewhere.

Book Failed Diplomacy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles L. Pritchard
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2007-08-01
  • ISBN : 0815772017
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Failed Diplomacy written by Charles L. Pritchard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Korea's development of nuclear weapons raises fears of nuclear war on the peninsula and the specter of terrorists gaining access to weapons of mass destruction. It also represents a dangerous and disturbing breakdown in U.S. foreign policy. Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb offers an insider's view of what went wrong and allowed this isolated nation—a charter member of the Axis of Evil—to develop nuclear weapons. Charles L. "Jack" Pritchard was intimately involved in developing America's North Korea policy under Presidents Clinton and Bush. Here, he offers an authoritative analysis of recent developments on the Korean peninsula and reveals how the Bush administration's mistakes damaged the prospects of controlling nuclear proliferation. Although multilateral negotiations continue, Pritchard proclaims the Six-Party Talks as a failure. His chronicle begins with the suspicions over North Korea's uranium enrichment program in 2002 that led to the demise of the Clinton-era Agreed Framework. Subsequently, Pyongyang kicked out international monitors and restarted its nuclear weapons program. Pritchard provides a first-hand account of how the Six-Party Talks were initiated and offers a play-by-play account of each round of negotiations, detailing the national interests of the key players—China, Japan, Russia, both Koreas, and the United States. The author believes the failure to prevent Kim Jong Il from "going nuclear" points to the need for a permanent security forum in Northeast Asia that would serve as a formal mechanism for dialogue in the region. Hard-hitting and insightful, Failed Diplomacy offers a stinging critique of the Bush administration's manner and policy in dealing with North Korea. More hopefully, it suggests what can be learned from missed opportunities.

Book Nonproliferation   Challenges Old and New

Download or read book Nonproliferation Challenges Old and New written by Brad Roberts and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the advent of the nuclear era in 1945, Americans and others have been debating whether or how it might be possible to prevent the proliferation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD). As each new proliferation challenge has emerged, debate about the shortcomings of the various policy tools for coping with proliferation has intensified. These debates have grown only more intense in the last ten to fifteen years. Despite such debates, American presidents have steered a fairly consistent course promoting nonproliferation, innovating along the way, while also coping with its periodic failures. The end of the Cold War seemed to make new things possible for nonproliferation, with the promise of even more cooperation between East and West on specific proliferation challenges. And the Persian Gulf War of 1990-91 seemed to make new things necessary, as the United States faced the first regional war under the shadow of weapons of mass destruction. First President George H.W. Bush and then President William Clinton committed the federal government to significant political efforts to strengthen the tools of nonproliferation policy.

Book North Korea s Second Nuclear Crisis and Northeast Asian Security

Download or read book North Korea s Second Nuclear Crisis and Northeast Asian Security written by Professor Seung-Ho Joo and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Korea's testing of a nuclear bomb sent out a shock wave throughout the world and totally changed the strategic equation in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia. This testing has far-reaching implications for Korean peace and unification, Northeast Asian security and America's global war on terrorism. This key volume provides an in-depth analysis of the inter-Korean and international dynamics of North Korea's nuclear crisis. It offers new insights into the six-party talks designed to resolve the crisis, suggests creative formulas to resolve the ongoing crisis through peaceful, diplomatic means and delves into the interests and policies of the major powers – the US, China, Japan and Russia – at the six-party negotiating table. The contributing authors are distinguished specialists and experts in the field and as such offer valuable expertise into the dynamics of this nuclear crisis for students and academics

Book Going Critical

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joel S. Wit
  • Publisher : Brookings Inst Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780815793878
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book Going Critical written by Joel S. Wit and published by Brookings Inst Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation In this book, three former U.S. officials who played key roles in the 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis trace the intense efforts that led North Korea to freezeand pledge ultimately to dismantleits dangerous plutonium production program. The story of the 1994 crisis provides important lessons for the U.S. as it grapples once again with a nuclear crisis on a peninsula that half a century ago claimed 50,000 American lives.

Book Meltdown

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mike Chinoy
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2010-03-22
  • ISBN : 1429930233
  • Pages : 461 pages

Download or read book Meltdown written by Mike Chinoy and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When George W. Bush took office in 2001, North Korea's nuclear program was frozen and Kim Jong Il had signaled he was ready to negotiate. Today, North Korea possesses as many as ten nuclear warheads, and possibly the means to provide nuclear material to rogue states or terrorist groups. How did this happen? Drawing on more than two hundred interviews with key players in Washington, Seoul, Tokyo, and Beijing, including Colin Powell, John Bolton, and ex–Korean president Kim Dae-jung, as well as insights gained during fourteen trips to Pyongyang, Mike Chinoy takes readers behind the scenes of secret diplomatic meetings, disputed intelligence reports, and Washington turf battles as well as inside the mysterious world of North Korea. Meltdown provides a wealth of new material about a previously opaque series of events that eventually led the Bush administration to abandon confrontation and pursue negotiations, and explains how the diplomatic process collapsed and produced the crisis the Obama administration confronts today.

Book U S  Nuclear Weapons Policy

Download or read book U S Nuclear Weapons Policy written by George Bunn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-08-29 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for International Security and Cooperation publication What role should nuclear weapons play in today's world? How can the United States promote international security while safeguarding its own interests? U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy informs this debate with an analysis of current nuclear weapons policies and strategies, including those for deterring, preventing, or preempting nuclear attack; preventing further proliferation, to nations and terrorists; modifying weapons designs; and revising the U.S. nuclear posture. Presidents Bush and Clinton made major changes in U.S. policy after the Cold War, and George W. Bush's administration made further, more radical changes after 9/11. Leaked portions of 2001's Nuclear Posture Review, for example, described more aggressive possible uses for nuclear weapons. This important volume examines the significance of such changes and suggests a way forward for U.S. policy, emphasizing stronger security of nuclear weapons and materials, international compliance with nonproliferation obligations, attention to the demand side of proliferation, and reduced reliance on nuclear weapons in U.S. foreign policy.

Book US Foreign Policy Toward North Korea  A Way Ahead

Download or read book US Foreign Policy Toward North Korea A Way Ahead written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is clear that while both the Clinton and Bush administrations have taken different approaches, in both cases U.S. policy has narrowly focused on the nuclear issue, tended to ignore or otherwise not meet the interests of North Korea, and ineffectively leveraged other regional players. Not surprisingly, the results have been the same. North Korea remains an adversarial country with nuclear ambitions, and comprehensive U.S. interests have not been met. The solution to the problem is not to drum up old policies but to develop a new policy -- a way ahead that addresses the shortcomings of past policies. More precisely, substantial and enduring results can only be realized when the United States develops a policy based on a comprehensive analysis of its own national security strategy and other supporting policy documents, as well as those of the "Group of Four" (four key regional players -- Japan, China, South Korea, and Russia) and North Korea. This analysis must include identifying and acknowledging the legitimate interests of North Korea, comparing them to U.S. security interests, and defining the challenges and incorporating opportunities the United States has in working with regional parties in addressing U.S. interests. The article is divided into the following sections: A History of Policy Failure; National Security Interests of the United States; National Security Interests of China; National Security Interests of Japan; National Security Interests of South Korea; National Security Interests of Russia; National Security Interests of the DPRK, including its conventional military, nuclear weapons, and economic development; Comparing U.S. Interests to the Group of Four with regard to terrorism, WMD proliferation, regional stability, human dignity/human rights, and economic development; and Comparing U.S. Interests to North Korean Interests.

Book North Korea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Congressional Research Congressional Research Service
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-06-22
  • ISBN : 9781512273342
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book North Korea written by Congressional Research Congressional Research Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Korea has presented one of the most vexing and persistent problems in U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. The United States has never had formal diplomatic relations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the official name for North Korea), although contact at a lower level has ebbed and flowed over the years. Negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program have occupied the past three U.S. administrations, even as some analysts anticipated a collapse of the isolated authoritarian regime. North Korea has been the recipient of over $1 billion in U.S. aid (though none since 2009) and the target of dozens of U.S. sanctions.

Book Report of the     Strategy for Peace  US Foreign Policy Conference

Download or read book Report of the Strategy for Peace US Foreign Policy Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nuclear Politics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexandre Debs
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 1107108098
  • Pages : 655 pages

Download or read book Nuclear Politics written by Alexandre Debs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive theory of the causes of nuclear proliferation, alongside an in-depth analysis of sixteen historical cases of nuclear development.

Book Nuclear Asia

Download or read book Nuclear Asia written by Gary Samore and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To address the complex issues related to nuclear proliferation in Asia, The National Bureau of Asian Research, with support from the National Nuclear Security Administration at the Department of Energy, organized a one-day workshop in Washington, D.C. in December 2006 to explore the implications of the spread of nuclear weapons in North Korea and Iran for regional security, the global nonproliferation regime, and U.S. nonproliferation policy. The papers featured in this volume of the NBR Analysis, written by former officials from the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, Gary Samore and Mitchell Reiss, emerged from the workshop. With their distinguished government service and their continued involvement on nonproliferation issues, Samore and Reiss challenge conventional thinking on recent developments in the nuclear arena and offer innovative insights and strategies for addressing them.