North Korea and the global nuclear order : when bad behaviour pays / Edward Howell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howell, Edward, 1995- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--Government policy--Korea (North).

Nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons (International law).

Korea (North)--Foreign relations.

Korea (North).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Covering a time period from the 1990s to the present-day, and using unprecedentedly rich empirical evidence, Edward Howell makes the overarching argument that North Korea has strategically deployed behaviour that breaks international norms in order to reap benefits.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Prologue

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Tables

Abbreviations and Note on Spellings

Introduction: When bad behaviour pays

North Korea: The known unknown

North Korea: A history of delinquency

Studying North Korea

North Korea: Who decides?

Global nuclear order

What is status?

Strategic delinquency in international relations

Outline of the book

1. The world through Pyongyang's eyes

Korea: Unified by name but not by nature

Resisting Japanese imperialism

Kim Il Sung: The guerrilla fighter

Divine worship: The legacies of Japanese rule

Uncertain friendships: Chinese and Soviet influences

Korean War: A catalyst for deviance

Juche: The antithesis of the post-war international order

A hostile world: How North Korea orders international relations

Allies abroad: A common enemy

The road not taken: Two roads diverged

Back to juche: Losing friends in a 'hostile world'

Conclusion

2. Strategic delinquency: Benefits of norm-breaking

North Korea and a changing global nuclear order

Global nuclear order: Status and hierarchy

States behaving badly: Norm-breaking in international relations

Status, norm-breaking, and the global nuclear order

Strategic engagement in delinquency: A trade-off

Strategic delinquency: A theoretical framework

A tripartite typology of delinquency

Benefits of delinquency

Strategic delinquency: All about status?

3. Quest for significance: The first nuclear crisis of the 1990s

Delinquency in the early post-war order

Nuclear ambitions of its own

Joining the global nuclear order

When crisis commences

A peace-loving power and the loss of allies: The first phase

Buying time for a nuclear programme

'Your Israel in East Asia': The second phase.

Momentary outward compliance with nuclear norms

A 'sea of fire': The third phase

'If war comes'

'A crisis that could be avoided'

'How can God die?'

Strategic delinquency and the first nuclear crisis

4. A nuclear North Korea: Costs and benefits of delinquency

Prelude to another crisis

'The Western world thinks we are belligerent'

A proliferation fixation

'When everything went to hell': The first phase

A weakened global nuclear order

Having the bomb: An irrefutable logic

Six parties, one goal: 'Accept us as a nuclear state'

A fully fledged nuclear weapons state: The second phase

Second time lucky? Four more years of ABC

Waiting for benefits: 'Commitment for commitment, action for action'

Only 24 million: 'Ready to go to nuclear testing'

A now nuclear North Korea: Provocations and rewards

'Not a tribunal against North Korea'

'One meeting away from a breakthrough': The third phase

'We could get something significant from North Korea'

False optimism: 'Getting them off their plutonium programme'

No carte blanche: The problems of verification

'These guys won't implement': When dialogue collapses

Clean slates: Defending the supreme interests

Strategic delinquency and the second nuclear crisis

5. Strategic patience meets strategic delinquency

Anything but Bush? A new administration in Washington

Not with a whimper but with a bang

An increasingly fragile US-led nuclear order

Strategic patience: A 'middle path'

Keeping North Korea in a box

'A terrible embarrassment'

An H-bomb of justice? North Korean impatience

When strategic patience meets strategic delinquency

6. Bad romance: Trump, Kim, and the quest for nuclear status

Fire, fury, and the costs of delinquency: The first phase.

Close to the red line: Brinkmanship and a war of words

'Will the US give a damn?': The second phase

Completing the state nuclear force

Showmanship and semantics in Singapore

Losing interest in the global nuclear order

The art of the no-deal: The third phase

Missiles and free food

Theatre without substance: Third time lucky?

Talks without results: 'Everything changed after Stockholm'

Strategic delinquency, status, and Kim Jong Un

Conclusion: Strategic delinquency and North Korea-an assessment

Further questions: Status, delinquency, and the global nuclear order

The North Korea problem: Where solutions elude

Epilogue: Sanction above all sanctions

Coronavirus: The sanction above all sanctions

Practising what one preaches: Thus spake Kim Yo Jong

Strategic patience 2.0: Diplomacy and stern deterrence

The land of least lousy options

Quo vadimus?

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 1, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Howell, Edward North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order

ISBN:

0-19-198222-9

0-19-288839-0

0-19-288840-4

OCLC:

1378393730