Patrick McEachern
Patrick McEachern is a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the Wilson Center. A career foreign service officer, he has served in Tokyo, Seoul, Washington, and Bratislava.
Biography
Patrick McEachern is a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the Wilson Center. He served in the U.S. Embassies in Tokyo, Seoul, and Bratislava. He worked as an analyst in the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research’s Northeast Asia Division and a Pat Robert Intelligence Scholar. He speaks Korean and Slovak and holds a PhD from LSU. He is co-author with Jaclyn McEachern of North Korea, Iran, and the Challenge to International Order (Routledge, 2017) and author of Inside the Red Box: North Korea’s Post-totalitarian Politics (Columbia University Press, 2010) and working on a new book with John Delury on North Korea.Education
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PhD, Louisiana State University
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Northeast Asia, Iran, Middle East, Security, Comparative Politics, International Relations
Books
Articles
North Korea’s Internal Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy
Published: Jan 01, 2013 by Origins of North Korea’s Juche: Colonialism, War and Development (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield)
Authors: Patrick McEachern
Subjects:
Area Studies, Asian Studies
North Korea's Policy Process: Assessing Institutional Policy Preferences
Published: Jun 01, 2009 by Asian Survey
Authors: Patrick McEachern
Subjects:
Area Studies, Asian Studies
I argue that North Korean politics is becoming pluralized. Policy outcomes are increasingly shaped by the interaction of the Cabinet, party, and military. Systematic content analysis of domestic articles and speeches suggests that policy preferences vary by institution. Second-echelon divisions are observable and help to shape policy more than has been previously argued.
Interest Groups in North Korean Politics
Published: Jun 01, 2008 by Journal of East Asian Studies
Authors: Patrick McEachern
Subjects:
Area Studies, Asian Studies
North Korea is often characterized as some form of highly centralized rule: totalitarian, posttotalitarian, corporatist, or personalistic. Much of the current thinking on North Korea's politics does not account for the limited institutional plurality in the system. The article documents how the state's political institutions have changed since the country's founding and highlights the formal and informal roles of each major bureaucracy.
Benchmarks of Economic Reform in North Korea
Published: Jun 01, 2008 by Korea Yearbook
Authors: Patrick McEachern
Subjects:
Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Area Studies, Asian Studies
This sketches theoretical expectations of post-Communist economic changes to highlight the importance of North Korean economic changes. It places North Korean economic policy in this context. It compares North Korean actions to not just a single country's economic transition (e.g. China's) but compares them to the common characteristics of all previous post- Communist economic reforms.