Nuclear armed aggressor or ultimate doomsday prepper? Assessing the grand strategy of a nuclear-armed North Korea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11222471 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Todd C Robinson (Maxwell Air Force Base, corresponding author), James E Platte (0000-0001-6634-0831, Maxwell Air Force Base), James Platte (Center for Strategic Deterrence Studies, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL, USA) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 315-335 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Strategy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-5933 • E-ISSN: 1521-0448 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01495933.2021.1912517 |
| OpenAlex | W3168559485 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Is the grand strategy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) more status-quo seeking or revisionist in orientation? If it is the latter, what role might its nuclear weapons play in pursuing its revisionist strategic objectives? This article presents an assessment of the Kim regime’s capabilities and intentions and finds the lack of definitive evidence pointing one way or another necessitates an investigation of the utility of nuclear weapons for states with revisionist strategic objectives. We build on classical research by Schelling and more recent research by Narang and Smetana and Ludkik to show that states, like the DPRK, can use nuclear capabilities for both deterrence and compellence in the pursuit of revisionist strategic
Business · Democracy · Deterrence theory · Grand strategy · International trade · Military strategy · Nuclear strategy · Nuclear warfare · Nuclear weapon · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Status quo · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |