A Rogue is a Rogue is a Rogue
US Foreign Policy and the Korean Nuclear Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3673694 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Bleiker (0000-0003-1435-2990, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 719-737 |
| Publication date | 2003-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2346.00333 |
| OpenAlex | W1967758812 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
Two nuclear crises recently haunted the Korean peninsula, one in 1993/4, the other in 2002/3. In each case the events were strikingly similar: North Korea made public its ambition to acquire nuclear weapons and withdrew from the Nonproliferation Treaty. Then the situation rapidly deteriorated until the peninsular was literally on the verge of war. The dangers of North Korea's actions, often interpreted as nuclear brinkmanship, are evident and much discussed, but not so the underlying patterns that have shaped the conflict in the first place. This article sheds light on some of them. It examines the role of the United States in the crisis, arguing that Washington's inability to see North Korea as anything but a threatening ‘rogue state’ seriously hinders both an adequate understanding and possible resolution of the conflict. Particularly significant is the current policy of pre-emptive strikes against rogue states, for it reinforces half a century of American nuclear threats towards North Korea. The problematic role of these threats has been largely obscured, not least because the highly technical discourse of security analysis has managed to present the strategic situation on the peninsula in a manner that attributes responsibility for the crisis solely to North Korea's actions, even if the situation is in reality far more complex and interactive
Business · Foreign policy · International trade · Nuclear weapon · Peninsula · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Treaty · History · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,72 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |