Student Feature – Spotlight on the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Due to decades of diplomacy, non-proliferation is one of the norms underpinning our international system and we have come a long way from the dark days of 1945.
Sanctioning the DPRK? This Time It’s All about Implementation Not Design
There are reasons to doubt whether extended sanctions against North Korea will produce the outcomes that key players want to achieve
International Monitoring of North Korea’s 2016 Nuclear Test
Sanctioning the North Korean economy and its leadership seems to be the best possible short-term option available to the international community to curb its nuclear proliferation.
Review – North Korea and Northeast Asian Regional Security
Shen’s edited book presents a good collection of regional perspectives on the security problems posed by a nuclear North Korea during the late-Kim Jong Il period.
‘The Interview’ and the Popular Culture-World Politics Continuum
In the wake of this scandal, it is possible that other states may use novel tools and techniques to extinguish negative representations of national identity in film.
Review – Visual Politics and North Korea
David Shim uses a welcome Critical Studies lens to consider how images of North Korea are used to construct a particular narrative and justify foreign policy decisions.
South Korea’s Foreign Policy in 2013: Building Trust in East Asia
“Trust” has been the buzzword for President Park Geun-hye, and 2013 saw ‘trustpolitik’ in action in South Korea’s relationships with North Korea, China and Japan.
Review – Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations
The Handbook fills a lacuna in the civil-military relations literature by offering up-to-date empirical analyses of civil-military relations in a variety of regime types around the world.
Understanding the DPRK
By seeing North Korea as rational, we might be able to look beyond the posturing and threats from all sides, and move toward resolving the Korean War with a peace treaty.
North Korea’s New Legacy Politics
North Korea’s future depends on how creatively it brings its sovereign heritage before the 1970s to the fore, and on how it can leave the past legacy politics of 1994–2011 behind.
