Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea

Cohesion and Disarray

Su-Mi Lee, Terence Roehrig, Su-Mi Lee, Terence Roehrig

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781438492933, 9781438492940
• eBook ISBN: 9781438492957
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Korean History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Comprehensive examination of the goals, strategies, and motives of the six parties involved in North Korea denuclearization talks through the lens of negotiation theory.

Was there ever a window of opportunity for successful negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program? Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea brings together country experts with negotiation specialists to apply negotiation theory to the North Korea denuclearization process. Country expert chapters provide a detailed assessment of the goals, motives, and strategies of the six parties-North Korea, South Korea, the United States, China, Japan, and Russia-along with contextual variables of each player such as political, economic, and social conditions while the negotiation scholars collate and scrutinize the results of these key variables. Based on thorough descriptive contexts provided by the country experts, the negotiation scholars identify the lack of two factors, party cohesion and ripeness, as detriments to successful North Korea nuclear negotiations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Negotiation: The Bedrock of Conflict Management
• Chapter 2 The History of North Korea Denuclearization Negotiations
• Chapter 3 North Korean Strategies and Responses
• Chapter 4 South Korea’s Strategy for Denuclearizing North Korea
• Chapter 5 Continuity and Change in American Nonproliferation Policy toward North Korea
• Chapter 6 Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: China and the Effort to Denuclearize North Korea
• Chapter 7 Japan’s Policy Dilemma vis‑à‑vis North Korea
• Chapter 8 Russia and North Korean Denuclearization
• Chapter 9 The Right Coalition, the Right Time, and the Right Framework: Lessons Learned from Forty-Plus Years of Negotiation
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors’ Biographies
• Index
• Back Cover