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With nearly twenty-five million citizens, a secretive totalitarian dictatorship, and active nuclear and ballistic missile weapons programs, North Korea presents some of the world's most difficult foreign policy challenges. For decades, the United States and its partners have employed multiple strategies in an effort to prevent Pyongyang from acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Washington has moved from the Agreed Framework under President Bill Clinton to George W. Bush's denunciation of the regime as part of the "axis of evil" to a posture of "strategic patience" under Barack Obama. Given that a new president will soon occupy the White House, policy expert Walter C. Clemens Jr. argues that now is the time to reconsider US diplomatic efforts in North Korea. In North Korea and the World, Clemens poses the question, "Can, should, and must we negotiate with a regime we regard as evil?" Weighing the needs of all the stakeholders - including China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea - he concludes that the answer is yes. After assessing nine other policy options, he makes the case for engagement and negotiation with the regime. There still may be time to freeze or eliminate North Korea's weapons of mass destruction. Grounded in philosophy and history, this volume offers a fresh road map for negotiators and outlines a grand bargain that balances both ethical and practical security concerns.
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• I. Roots of twenty-first-century problems: Why care about North Korea?
• How Korea became Korea
• How Korea became Japan
• How a civil war became global
• How North Korea got the bomb?
• II. Policy dilemmas: Human insecurity and the duty to protect
• Facing up to evil
• Must we choose between peace and human rights?
• Why is North Korea not the South?
• GRIT at Panmumjom? How to cope with conflict
• III. Opportunities aborted: The agree framework sets the stage for a grand bargain
• Bush gets tough with North Korea
• Six-party hopes and missed opportunities
• Obama and Kim Jong Un: approach and avoid
• North Korea's weapons of mass destruction
• IV. Policy opinions amid uncertainty: Revolutionary pariahs : why North Korea is not Iran
• Basic forces and Fortuna versus human factors
• What to do about--or with--China?
• What do to about---or with--North Korea?

With nearly twenty-five million citizens, a secretive totalitarian dictatorship, and active nuclear and ballistic missile weapons programs, North Korea presents some of the world's most difficult foreign policy challenges. For decades, the United States and its partners have employed multiple strategies in an effort to prevent Pyongyang from acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Washington has moved from the Agreed Framework under President Bill Clinton to George W. Bush's denunciation of the regime as part of the "axis of evil" to a posture of "strategic patience" under Barack Obama. Given that a new president will soon occupy the White House, policy expert Walter C. Clemens Jr. argues that now is the time to reconsider US diplomatic efforts in North Korea. In North Korea and the World, Clemens poses the question, "Can, should, and must we negotiate with a regime we regard as evil?" Weighing the needs of all the stakeholders - including China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea - he concludes that the answer is yes. After assessing nine other policy options, he makes the case for engagement and negotiation with the regime. There still may be time to freeze or eliminate North Korea's weapons of mass destruction. Grounded in philosophy and history, this volume offers a fresh road map for negotiators and outlines a grand bargain that balances both ethical and practical security concerns.
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• Why a science of complexity?
• Basic concepts of complexity science
• A crucial test case: why the Baltic is not the Balkans
• Culture and the capacity to cope with complexity
• Complexity science as a tool to understand the new Eurasia
• How complexity concepts explain past and present fitness
• Hyperpower challenged: prospects for Americans
• End of the American dream?
• Toward a new paradigm for global studies:
• Challenges to complexity science
• Afterword: science and art: exploring the genome together.

"Argues that complexity science provides a useful paradigm for analysis of social and policy sciences"-- Provided by publisher

• Why a science of complexity?
• Basic concepts of complexity science
• A crucial test case: why the Baltic is not the Balkans
• Culture and the capacity to cope with complexity
• Complexity science as a tool to understand the new Eurasia
• How complexity concepts explain past and present fitness
• Hyperpower challenged: prospects for Americans
• End of the American dream?
• Toward a new paradigm for global studies:
• Challenges to complexity science
• Afterword: science and art: exploring the genome together.

"Argues that complexity science provides a useful paradigm for analysis of social and policy sciences"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter 1: How Korea Became Critical
• Chapter 2: How Korea Became Korea
• Chapter 3: How Korea Became Japan
• Chapter 4: How One Korea Became Two
• Chapter 5: How North Korea Got the Bomb
• Chapter 6: How Kissinger and Zhou Enlai Got To Yes
• Chapter 7: How To Get To Yes Across Cultures
• Chapter 8: How Carter and Clinton Got To Yes With Pyongyang
• Chapter 9: How Bush and Kim Jong Il Got To Deadlock
• Chapter 10: How Free Will Can Get Past Forces and Fortuna
• Chapter 11: How To Get Past The Worst and Move To Better Futures
• Chapter 12: How Should Obama Deal With Authoritarians?
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President George W. Bush had pinned North Korea to an "axis of evil" but then neglected Pyongyang until it tested a nuclear device. Would the new administration make similar mistakes? When the Clinton White House prepared to bomb North Korea's nuclear facilities, private citizen Jimmy Carter mediated to avert war and set the stage for a deal freezing North Korea's plutonium production. The 1994 Agreed Framework collapsed after eight years, but when Pyongyang went critical, the negotiations got serious. Each time the parties advanced one or two steps, however, their advance seemed to spawn one or two steps backward. Clemens distils lessons from U.S. negotiations with North Korea, Russia, China, and Libya and analyses how they do-and do not-apply to six-party and bilateral talks with North Korea in a new political era.
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Why isn't the Baltic region like the Balkans? Why have the Baltic republics not experienced ethnic cleansing, border wars, authoritarian rule and social chaos? Instead, peace, democracy and market economies have taken root since the fall of communism. Walter Clemens here uses complexity theory, which analyzes the role of self-organization in complex adaptive systems, to explain the "Baltic miracle". He argues that the theory is a vital tool for understanding the remarkable strides made by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1991 in coping with the transition to partnership with the new Europe. The Baltic peoples have adapted well to the demands of democracy, a market economy and a constructive role in world affairs. The achievements of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the past decade are the more amazing when considered against the hundreds of years they were dominated by Teutonic knights, Hanseatic merchants, Sweden, Russia and USSR. Clemens uses this history as a springboard to analyze how the Baltics self-organize today to meet the challenges of transition. One of the first books to apply complexity theory to a major sphere of world politics, "The Baltic Transformed" should provoke constructive debate with its ambitious and well-grounded analysis of not only Baltic developments but European security more generally. Despite its theoretical foundation, the book is written in a clear and accessible style that will make it valuable for courses of comparative politics, political development, international relations, security or transition studies.
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Why isn't the Baltic region like the Balkans? Why have the Baltic republics not experienced ethnic cleansing, border wars, authoritarian rule, and social chaos? Instead, peace, democracy, and market economies have taken root since the fall of communism. Walter C. Clemens, Jr., here uses complexity theory, which analyzes the role of self-organization in complex adaptive systems, to explain the Baltic miracle. He argues that the theory is a vital tool for understanding the remarkable strides made by Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since 1991 in coping with the transition to partnership with the new Europe. One of the first books to apply complexity theory to a major sphere of world politics, The Baltic Transformed will provoke constructive debate with its ambitious and well-grounded analysis of not only Baltic developments but European security more generally. Visit our website for sample chapters!.
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This book surveys US achievements and failures in the world across the 20th century. The analysis builds upon surveys of experts at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and several universities conducted over the last 25 years. The reasons for success and failure are subject to hot dispute. Walter Clemens argues that the individual traits of US leaders account for far more variation in outcomes than the domestic or international contexts. He concludes that the policy outcomes of the past century confirm the assumptions of mutual gain theory, complexity theory, and liberal peace theory. Clemens then uses his analysis to sketch alternative futures that could face planners in the early 21st century. .
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