North Korea's New Diplomacy (eBook)

Virginie Grzelczyk is Lecturer in International Relations at Aston University, UK. Her research focuses on security relationships over the Korean Peninsula, with publications spanning the Six-Party Talks process, North Korea’s energy security dilemma, Korean identity in the context of reunification and the concept of crisis in Northeast Asia.

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: WHY THE NEED TO RE-EVALUATE NORTH KOREA? A STRENGTHENING STATE? REVISITING THE PAST1950s–1970s: The Construction of a New System 1970s–1980s: Defiant Politics1990s: Transition and Famine2000s: Nuclear Weapons Crisis and Bargaining2010s: Kim Jong Un’s North KoreaNORTH KOREA’S FOREIGN RELATIONS: NEW TRAJECTORIESCHAPTER 2. FRIENDS AND FOES: AN ORTHODOX STORYANTAGONISM: A CLASH OF IDEOLOGY AND POWERJapan The United StatesCLOSENESS: A COMMUNIST WORLDThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics The People’s Republic of ChinaSatellites and ProxiesSIGNIFICANT OTHER: SOUTH KOREA AS A BROTHER IN ARMS FAMINE, DROUGHT, AID AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CHAPTER 3. NOTHING BUT WORDS? RHETORIC AND BEYONDPROPAGANDA AS AN ANALYICAL TOOL A Rhetorical World: From Indifference to Hope for Change DPRK Meets World: From Delegations to Protocols and AgreementsWHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMACY?  Post-Cold War Environment: New Patterns of Interaction Managing and Maintaining Traditional TiesFTrack-Two: NGOs and Learning about the World From Track-Two to Multi-Track CHAPTER 4. SECURING FREEDOMSMALL, ROGUE, AND ISOLATED? FRAMING THE DPRK’S SECURITY EVOLUTIONTRADING CONVENTIONAL SECURITY The Early Years: DPRK as a Military RecipientThe Latest Years: The DPRK as a Weapons Supplier NUCLEAR COOPERATIONNorth Korea’s Cold War Nuclear Program Finding North Korea’s Nuclear Mentor CHAPTER 5. NAVIGATING INTERDEPENDENCETHE REALITY OF DEVELOPING AS A SANCTIONED COUNTRYA Web of Sanctions Sanctions: How to Make Them Work Profit-Making Goods SmugglingSanctioned Goods and Collateral Damages EXPORTING TO IMPORT DPRK Workers AbroadMansudae Arts and Statues CHAPTER 6. THE DPRK AND THE POLITICS OF MAINSTREAMING PARTICIPATING IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE Global Governance as a Pathway to Anti-Hegemonic AgendasBECOMING PART OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMProduction and InvestmentDPRK as a Connected StateBEYOND COLLAPSE THEORY: A FUTURE FOR THE DPRK?Securing ModernityPartnerships for Long-Term ChangeCHAPTER 7. CONCLUSION: FOSTERING COOPERATION IN A MULTIPOLAR WORLDBROKERS AND FRIENDSBrokering Re-EngagementNuclear TalksSustaining a Relationship with the DPRK: Uncertainties and Difficulties NORTH KOREA’S NEXT GAMEPeripheral PoliticsFinding New Ties and New OpportunitiesOptimism and the Politics of Disappointment