
- Engaging North Korea
- Haggard, Stephan; Noland, Marcus
- East-West Center
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Engaging North Korea
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Sub Title | The role of economic statecraft |
Material Type | Reports |
Author(English) |
Haggard, Stephan; Noland, Marcus |
Publisher |
Honolulu : East-West Center |
Date | 2011 |
Series Title; No | Policy Studies |
ISBN | 978-1-932728-92-7 |
Pages | 59 |
Subject Country | North Korea(Asia and Pacific) |
Language | English |
File Type | Link |
Original Format | |
Subject | Economy < Economic Administration |
Holding | East-West Center |
License | ![]() |
Abstract
This monograph reviews the efficacy of economic statecraft vis-à-vis North Korea, with a particular focus on the use of sanctions and inducements on the part of the United States in seeking to achieve nonproliferation and wider foreign policy objectives. Two structural constraints operate: North Korea's particularly repressive state, with a narrowing governing coalition; and the country's changing economic relations. As an empirical matter, there is little evidence that sanctions had effect, or did so only in conjunction with inducements. However, inducements did not yield significant results either, in part because of severe credibility and sequencing problems in the negotiations.