Ken E. Gause

North Korea under Kim Chong-il (eBook, ePUB)

Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This much-needed study draws on fresh material and firsthand observation to provide an understanding of North Korea as it exists today. North Korea under Kim Chong-il: Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change delves deeply into what we know-and what we think we know-about the current North Korean system. This incisive book probes the dynamics that inform the nation's domestic and foreign policies, examining key leadership institutions and personalities, as well as prospects for the next regime. In outlining the major events behind Kim Chong-il's assumption of power, Ken E. Gause illuminates the environment that shaped Chong-il's worldview and his concept of the regime and his role in it. The book focuses on regime politics since 1994. Among other critical topics, the book examines the evolution of North Korean decision-making with regard to its internal and external affairs and how both are intermingled. The prospects for a third hereditary succession and the prospective stability of the next regime are also considered.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216123729
• Artikelnr.: 70037602

Autorenporträt

Ken E. Gause is director of the Foreign Leadership Studies Program at CNA Corporation, a nonprofit research organization in Alexandria, VA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface I. Kim Chong-il as Leader 1 Establishing the Kim Chong-il System 2
Crisis Management: Experimenting with Reform 3 Kim Family Politics 4
Rollback of Reforms 5 New Faces Emerge as North Korea Takes a Different
Tack at Reform II. Passing the Torch to a Third Generation 6 Third
Hereditary Succession 7 Challenges for the Future Appendix A: Close Aide
Politics Appendix B: Decision Making at the Center of the Hub and Spoke
Notes Index