Hard Target: Sanctions, Inducements, and the Case of North Korea (Sanctions, Inducements, and the Case of North Korea)
Haggard, Stephan | Stanford University Press
210,600원 | 20170629 | 9781503600362
Frequent coauthors on Korean Peninsula affairs, Haggard and Noland are affiliated respectively with the Univ. of California at San Diego and the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC. The most trenchant observation in this richly detailed work is that economic statecraft, "the play of external sanctions and inducements vis-a-vis a hard target like North Korea appears to have much weaker effect than is thought." Take heed, particularly, the US Congress, which is bent on sharply escalating the sanctions regime hoping it will rein in a willful, menacing North Korean nuclear power and that the US will not feel compelled to invoke a high-risk military option against Pyongyang. Thus far, no policy, practice, or threat invoked in any quarter outside North Korea has induced it to abandon or even slow its pace of nuclear and missile development. Such matters are grist for academic and policy-making North Korea watchers who, likely, will form the bulk of readers of this work, along with graduate students keyed to issues of political economy centered on East Asia and the Korean Peninsula. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students through faculty.--A. Magid, SUNY at AlbanyCOPYRIGHT(2017) Choice, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
