International Aid and Sustainable Development in North Korea
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International Aid and Sustainable Development in North Korea

A Country Left Behind with Cloaked Society

  1. 146 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

International Aid and Sustainable Development in North Korea

A Country Left Behind with Cloaked Society

About this book

This book examines international aid in North Korea, in particular the ongoing policy of withholding aid, through the lens of the impact on the general population to present an argument for sustainable development.

Focusing on the human rights of North Koreans and presenting a case for the use of aid as a provision for social change, it explores an alternative narrative to the existing long-drawn-out rhetoric of 'denuclearisation-first'. The book's scope includes evaluations of the causes of international sanctions and their impact, the Kim regime's mitigation of sanctions through marketisation and a digital economy as well as barriers to aid monitoring and the reason for the absence of any mass anti-regime movement. It also posits that North Korea is a fragile state but cloaked by the image of a strong regime.

The book succinctly demonstrates that the key to unlocking the potential of North Korea's 'cloaked society' does not lie in sanctions, but is to be found in engagement with development aid. As such it will appeal to students of Korean Studies, Development Studies, Asian Politics and International Relations.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Tables
  10. List of Boxes
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 Sanctions and Unintended Consequences
  13. 3 Resilience through Marketisation and the Digital Economy
  14. 4 Street-Level Bureaucrats and Cloaked Society
  15. 5 International Aid and Uncloaking Society
  16. 6 Strong Regime but Dysfunctional State Capacity
  17. 7 Conclusion
  18. Index