Hard Target

Sanctions, Inducements, and the Case of North Korea

Bibliographic Data

ID23799446
AuthorsStephan Haggard (0000-0003-1571-2580), Melody Noland (0000-0003-0599-0413), Marcus Noland
Year2017
Pages321
Publication date2017-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueHard target (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11126/stanford/9781503600362.001.0001
OpenAlexW4247182741
Open LibraryOL27232791M
ISBN9781503600362
LanguageEN
Citations received13

Because authoritarian regimes like North Korea can impose the costs of sanctions on their citizens, they constitute “hard targets.” Yet such regimes may also be immune—and even hostile—to economic inducements if those inducements imply reform and opening. Can economic carrots and sticks by used effectively with respect to such systems? This book draws on an array of evidence—trade data, surveys of Chinese and South Korea firms doing business in North Korea, and an analysis of the country’s political structure—to capture the effects of sanctions and inducements. The book also provides a detailed reconstruction of the role of economic incentives in the bargaining over North Korea’s nuclear program. While it highlights the difficulties sanctions have faced, it also shows the reluctance of the leadership to weaken its grip on foreign economic activity, suggesting that inducements may have limited effect as well. The case is made through a detailed reconstruction of negotiations over North Korea’s nuclear program. Discussing parallels to Iran, the book urges policy makers to think in terms of gradual strategies—including informational ones—that may have effects only over the long run.

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Development economics · Economic sanctions · Economics · Incentive · International trade · Market economy · Negotiation · Parallels · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sanctions · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Economic Sanctions and International Relations · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Diplomatic relations · foreign economic relations · foreign relations · International economic relations · Korea · Korea (north) · Nuclear disarmament

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