Leon V Sigal

Biographic Data

ID251054
NAMELeon V Sigal
GIVEN NAMESLeon V
FAMILY NAMESigal
SIGNATURESIGAL L V
AFFILIATIONSWesleyan University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS314
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX4

  • Options for Denuclearising the Korean Peninsula

    Open AccessPeter Hayes, Morton H Halperin et al.ARTICLEJapan focus2018

    A critically important part of assembling the Korean peninsula-wide denuclearization jigsaw puzzle is the institutional and legal form of North Korean commitments on the one hand, and the nuclear negative security assurances by the NPT-Nuclear Weapons States (NWSs), especially the United States, on the other. Given the risk of mutual annihilation between the two Koreas as well as to third parties such as the United States, Japan, and China, findi…

  • A Strategy for Dealing with North Korea

    Open AccessLeon V SigalARTICLEJapan focus2017

    North Korea is on the verge of developing boosted energy nuclear weapons with higher yield-to-weight ratios. It is test-launching mobile ICBMs and intermediate-range missiles to deliver them. It is churning out plutonium and highly enriched uranium at a rate of six or more bombs' worth a year

  • Deterrence

    Open AccessLeon V SigalCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Political Prospects for a Nuclear‐Weapons‐Free Zone in Northeast Asia

    Open AccessLeon V SigalARTICLEPacific Focus2011Cited by: 2References: 1

    A Northeast Asian nuclear‐weapons‐free zone (NWFZ) or a Japan–South Korea NWFZ could help entice the DPRK to carry out its commitment in the September 2005 Six‐Party Joint Statement to “abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs”. There are two possible scenarios for the nuclear future of North Korea, and in turn, the security of South Korea and Northeast Asia: containment, in which North Korea remains nuclear‐armed with a growi…

  • Why Punishing North Korea Won't Work…And What Will

    Open AccessLeon V SigalARTICLEJapan focus2009

    Despite the promise of change, the Obama administration has started to address North Korea just as the Clinton and Bush administrations did–accusing it of wrongdoing and trying to punish it for its transgressions. As Pyongyang's recent nuclear test demonstrates, the crime-and-punishment approach has never worked in the past and it won't work now. Instead, sustained diplomatic give-and-take is the only way to stop future North Korean nuclear and m…

  • How A Mock Trial Could Turn Victory into Defeat on North Korea's Nuclear Arms

    Open AccessLeon V SigalARTICLEJapan focus2008

    In tough bargaining, the United States has stopped North Korea from producing more plutonium for nuclear weapons. It has induced the North to disable its nuclear facilities at Yongbyon, making them more difficult and time-consuming to restart. Washington has also persuaded Pyongyang to declare how much nuclear material it has and the equipment and components it has acquired to make more - a necessary step to negotiating their elimination in the n…

  • The Lessons of North Korea's Test

    Leon V SigalARTICLECurrent History2006

    Countries that seek nuclear weapons are insecure. Trying to isolate or coerce them can easily backfire

  • What North Korea's Missile Test Means

    Open AccessLeon V SigalARTICLEJapan focus2006

    The unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution condemning North Korea's Taepodong-2 missile test give both North Korea and the Bush administration an excuse not to negotiate. As such, it misses the point.The Taepodong-2 test is no bolt from the blue just to get attention. It is Pyongyang's reaction to backtracking by Washington in the ten months since a breakthrough was reached in six-party talks

  • The Cabal is Alive and Well

    Open AccessLeon V SigalARTICLEJapan focus2005

    The contest between the superpower and the mini-state is now well into its sixth, stalemated decade. What changes, however, is the degree of active involvement on the part of neighbor states to try to bring the U.S. and North Korea to reason. In the series of Six-Party talks that began in Beijing in August 2003, while North Korea stuck firmly to its declaration of readiness to give up nuclear programs in return for "normalization" and an end to t…

  • Hang Separately

    Robert Legvold, Leon V SigalARTICLEForeign Affairs2001

  • Disarming Strangers

    Leon V SigalBOOKDisarming Strangers1999

    In 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 d…

  • Israel and the Bomb

    Open AccessLeon V SigalARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1999

  • Disarming Strangers

    Donald Zagoria, Donald S Zagoria et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1998Cited by: 9

  • The Last Cold War Election

    Leon V SigalARTICLEForeign Affairs1992Cited by: 2

    When President Bush and Congress were slow to react to America's straitened circumstances, public frustration with politics intensified, fueling an incipient crisis in the central institution of American democracy?the two-party system. The fervor for Ross Perot was just one sign ofthat discontent. Most political observers ascribed public disaffection to dissat isfaction with the presidential candidates of both major par ties. But those two men we…

  • Listening for the Bomb

    Open AccessLeon V SigalARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1990

  • Fighting to a Finish

    Michael A Barnhart, Leon V SigalARTICLEPacific Affairs1990

  • Fighting to a Finish

    Otis Cary, Leon V SigalARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1989

  • Fighting to a Finish

    Mark A Stoler, Leon V SigalARTICLEJournal of American History1989

    Journal Article Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan, 1943. By Leon V. Sigal. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. xiii + 335 pp. $39–95.) Get access Mark A. Stoler Mark A. Stoler University of Vermont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908473 Published: 01 Ju…

  • Fighting to a Finish

    Gregory F Treverton, Leon V SigalARTICLEForeign Affairs1989Cited by: 2

  • Nuclear Forces in Europe

    Derek Leebaert, Leon V SigalARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1985

  • Alliance Security

    Open AccessDerek Leebaert, John D Steinbrunner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1984Cited by: 4

  • Nuclear Forces in Europe

    Andrew J Pierre, Leon V SigalARTICLEForeign Affairs1984

  • Alliance Security

    Andrew J Pierre, John D Steinbruner et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1983Cited by: 3

  • Warming to the Freeze

    Leon V SigalARTICLEForeign Policy1982Cited by: 1

  • Manufacturing the News.Mark Fishman

    Leon V SigalARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1982