Hard target : sanctions, inducements, and the case of North Korea
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Hard target : sanctions, inducements, and the case of North Korea
(Studies in Asian security)
Stanford University Press, c2017
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-309) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Because authoritarian regimes like North Korea can impose the costs of sanctions on their citizens, these regimes constitute "hard targets." Yet authoritarian regimes may also be immune-and even hostile-to economic inducements if such inducements imply reform and opening. This book captures the effects of sanctions and inducements on North Korea and provides a detailed reconstruction of the role of economic incentives in the bargaining around the country's nuclear program.
Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland draw on an array of evidence to show the reluctance of the North Korean leadership to weaken its grip on foreign economic activity. They argue that inducements have limited effect on the regime, and instead urge policymakers to think in terms of gradual strategies. Hard Target connects economic statecraft to the marketization process to understand North Korea and addresses a larger debate over the merits and demerits of "engagement" with adversaries.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Political Economy of Engagement
2. The Political Economy of North Korea: The Paradigmatic Hard Target
3. North Korea's External Economic Relations, 1990-2016
4. Humanitarian Dilemmas: The Political Economy of Food
5. The Microeconomics of Engagement
6. Negotiating on Nuclear Weapons I: The Rise and Fall of the Six Party Talks (2001-2008)
7. Negotiating on Nuclear Weapons II: Permanent Crisis, 2009-2016
8. Conclusion: Whither North Korea? Whither Economic Statecraft?
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