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North Korea, Iran and the Challenge to International Order A Comparative Perspective

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines and compares the political situations in North Korea and Iran, and the contemporary security challenges posed by their illicit nuclear aspirations. While government officials, including a series of American presidents, strategic policy documents and outside analysts have repeatedly noted that North Korea and Iran occupy a similar challenge, the commonality has largely been... Read more

1. Introduction

2. A Comparative History

3. Domestic Politics, Economy, and Ideology

4. Foreign and Security Policy and Human Rights

5. Nonproliferation

6. Conclusions and Policy Implications

Biography

Patrick McEachern is a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, Foreign Service Officer, and author of Inside the Red Box: North Korea’s Post-totalitarian Politics (2010). He has a PhD from Louisiana State University.

Jaclyn O’Brien McEachern is a practicing canon lawyer and author of multiple scholarly articles on the West’s relations with Islam. She has a PhD from The Catholic University of America.

"The emphasis on aspiration, as opposed to behaviour, is analytically liberating for both the authors and the reader. It allows the former to turn the discussion to the domestic politics of both countries, placing questions of factionalism and identity in a primary position."

Rosa Brooks, War, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy