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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hagström, Linus
• Lundström, Magnus

Titel

Overcoming US-North Korean Enmity: Lessons from an Eclectic IR Approach

Ist Teil von

• The International spectator, 2019-10, Vol.54 (4), p.94-108

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Periods of mutual enmity in US-North Korean relations are typically interrupted by more conciliatory gestures. How can the many twists and turns in this relationship be explained and hopefully overcome so that more long-lasting détente is accomplished? Drawing eclectically on realism and constructivism, we conclude that a nuclear deal should address not only North Korea's interests in security and regime survival, but also its status concerns. Applying the same theories to the other part of the dyad - the US - we conclude that it may now have material interests in ameliorating the relationship, but that such a development requires US foreign policy discourse to cease depicting North Korea as "irrational" and "evil".