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On the brink : Trump, Kim, and the threat of nuclear war / Van Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Van, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trump, Donald, 1946-.
- Trump, Donald.
- Kim, Chŏng-ŭn, 1984-.
- Kim, Chŏng-ŭn.
- Nuclear warfare--United States.
- Nuclear warfare.
- Nuclear warfare--Korea (North).
- United States--Foreign relations--Korea (North).
- United States.
- Korea (North)--Foreign relations--United States.
- Korea (North).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- In 2017, the world watched as President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traded personal insults and escalating threats of nuclear war amid unprecedented shows of military force. Former Pentagon insider and Korean security expert Van Jackson traces the origins of the first American nuclear crisis in the post-Cold War era, and explains the fragile, highly unpredictable way that it ended. Grounded in security studies and informed analysis of the US response to North Korea's increasing nuclear threat, Trump's aggressive rhetoric is analysed in the context of prior US policy failures, the geopolitics of East Asia, North Korean strategic culture and the acceleration of its nuclear programme. Jackson argues that the Trump administration's policy of 'maximum pressure' brought the world much closer to inadvertent nuclear war than many realise - and charts a course for the prevention of future conflicts.
- Contents:
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- Ch. 1: introduction
- Ch. 2: the inheritance of donald trump and kim jong un in korea
- Ch. 3: north korean strategic thought and the risks of nuclear war
- Ch. 4: the obama era: from engagement to deterrence
- Ch. 5: history's hinge point: the clinton counterfactual
- Ch. 6: president trump and the maximum pressure strategy
- Ch. 7: mimicking pyongyang
- Ch. 8: on the brink of nuclear war
- Ch. 9: when will the war break out?
- Ch. 10: how the crisis ended
- Ch. 11: the risks of nuclear war
- Reference.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Nov 2018).
- ISBN:
- 1-108-69973-1
- 1-108-56222-1
- 1-108-58461-6
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