LEADER 04847nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910449897103321 005 20210610014614.0 010 $a1-282-75330-4 010 $a9786612753305 010 $a1-4008-2235-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822355 035 $a(CKB)1000000000002183 035 $a(EBL)581657 035 $a(OCoLC)700688694 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278738 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11238032 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278738 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10246624 035 $a(PQKB)11478861 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581657 035 $a(DE-B1597)446117 035 $a(OCoLC)979749201 035 $a(OCoLC)984663603 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822355 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581657 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035886 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275330 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000002183 100 $a19970612d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDisarming strangers$b[electronic resource] $enuclear diplomacy with North Korea /$fLeon V. Sigal 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton studies in international history and politics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-01006-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$tABBREVIATIONS --$t1. Uncooperative America --$tPART I: COERCION FAILS --$t2. The Bush Deadlock Machine --$t3. The Clinton Administration Ties Itself in Knots --$t4. A "Better than Even" Chance of Misestimation --$t5. Deadlock --$tPART II: COOPERATION SUCCEEDS --$t6. Open Covenants, Privately Arrived At --$t7. Getting to Yes --$tPART III: CONCLUSIONS --$t8. Nuclear Diplomacy in the News-An Untold Story --$t9. The Politics of Discouragement --$t10. Why Won't America Cooperate? --$tAppendixes --$tAppendix I. North Korea's Tit-for-Tat Negotiating Behavior --$tAppendix II. Key Documents --$tNOTES --$tINDEX 330 $aIn June 1994 the United States went to the brink of war with North Korea. With economic sanctions impending, President Bill Clinton approved the dispatch of substantial reinforcements to Korea, and plans were prepared for attacking the North's nuclear weapons complex. The turning point came in an extraordinary private diplomatic initiative by former President Jimmy Carter and others to reverse the dangerous American course and open the way to a diplomatic settlement of the nuclear crisis. Few Americans know the full details behind this story or perhaps realize the devastating impact it could have had on the nation's post-Cold War foreign policy. In this lively and authoritative book, Leon Sigal offers an inside look at how the Korean nuclear crisis originated, escalated, and was ultimately defused. He begins by exploring a web of intelligence failures by the United States and intransigence within South Korea and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Sigal pays particular attention to an American mindset that prefers coercion to cooperation in dealing with aggressive nations. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with policymakers from the countries involved, he discloses the details of the buildup to confrontation, American refusal to engage in diplomatic give-and-take, the Carter mission, and the diplomatic deal of October 1994. In the post-Cold War era, the United States is less willing and able than before to expend unlimited resources abroad; as a result it will need to act less unilaterally and more in concert with other nations. What will become of an American foreign policy that prefers coercion when conciliation is more likely to serve its national interests? Using the events that nearly led the United States into a second Korean War, Sigal explores the need for policy change when it comes to addressing the challenge of nuclear proliferation and avoiding conflict with nations like Russia, Iran, and Iraq. What the Cuban missile crisis was to fifty years of superpower conflict, the North Korean nuclear crisis is to the coming era. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in international history and politics. 606 $aNuclear nonproliferation 606 $aDiplomacy 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zKorea (North) 607 $aKorea (North)$xForeign relations$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNuclear nonproliferation. 615 0$aDiplomacy. 676 $a327.1/747 700 $aSigal$b Leon V$01034551 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449897103321 996 $aDisarming strangers$92453754 997 $aUNINA