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  • Famine in North Korea

    Markets, Aid, and Reform

    by Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland ...
    In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief.As households, enterprises, local party ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • North Korea and Northeast Asia

    by Victor D. Cha, C S. Eliot Kang, Myonwoo Lee, Robert A. Manning, Marcus Noland, Elizabeth Wishnick ...
    Series series Asia in World Politics
    A country of stark contradictions and puzzles, North Korea exhibits uncanny resilience in the face of external shocks and internal woes, raising important questions of theoretical and real-world significance. What has made it possible for North Korea to defy the classical realist axiom, "The strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept"? What is the nature ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Hard Target

    Sanctions, Inducements, and the Case of North Korea

    by Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland ...
    Series series Studies in Asian Security
    Because authoritarian regimes like North Korea can impose the costs of sanctions on their citizens, these regimes constitute "hard targets." Yet authoritarian regimes may also be immune—and even hostile—to economic inducements if such inducements imply reform and opening. This book captures the effects of sanctions and inducements on North Korea and provides a detailed reconstruction of the role ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Confronting the Curse

    The Economics and Geopolitics of Natural Resource Governance

    by Cullen Hendrix, Marcus Noland ...
    Countries blessed with abundant natural resources often seek financial and political power from their supposedly lucky status. But the potentially negative impact of natural resources on development of poor countries is captured in the phrase "the resource curse." Instead of success and prosperity, producers of gold, oil, rubber, sugar, and other commodities—many in the least developed parts of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • From Stress to Growth

    Strengthening Asia's Financial Systems in a Post-Crisis World

    Edited by Marcus Noland, Donghyun Park ...
    Asian financial systems, which serve the most economically dynamic region of the world, survived the global economic crisis of the last several years. In From Stress to Growth: Strengthening Asia's Financial Systems in a Post-Crisis World, scholars affiliated with the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Asian Development Bank argue in separate essays that Asian systems must ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • South Korea since 1980

    by Uk Heo, Terence Roehrig ...
    Series series The World Since 1980
    This 2010 book examines the changes in politics, economics, society, and foreign policy in South Korea since 1980. Starting with a brief description of its history leading up to 1980, this book deals with South Korea's transition to democracy, the stunning economic development achieved since the 1960s, the 1997 financial crisis, and the economic reforms that followed and concludes with the North ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Future of China-Russia Relations

    Edited by James A. Bellacqua ...
    Series series Asia in the New Millennium
    Relations between China and Russia have evolved dramatically since their first diplomatic contact, particularly during the twentieth century. During the past decade China and Russia have made efforts to strengthen bilateral ties and improve cooperation on a number of diplomatic fronts. The People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation maintain exceptionally close and friendly relations, ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • North Korea in the World Economy

    Edited by Eun Kwan Choi, E. Han Kim, Yesook Merrill ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    Mention North Korea to people today and they will conjure up many unflattering images, particularly in the wake of George W. Bush denouncing the state as part of an "axis of evil". Despite this cold war type rhetoric, the state of North Korea has begun to recognise the difficult challenges that it faces and is now trying to get to grips with them systematically.This book brings together a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • South Korea's Rise

    Economic Development, Power, and Foreign Relations

    by Uk Heo, Terence Roehrig ...
    South Korea's phenomenal rise has been studied extensively by political scientists and economists both in terms of its impact on democratisation and as a role model for economic development. Yet little attention has been devoted to exploring the nexus between economic development and foreign policy. In South Korea's Rise, Uk Heo and Terence Roehrig propose a new theoretical framework to illustrate ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Political Changes in Taiwan Under Ma Ying-jeou

    Partisan Conflict, Policy Choices, External Constraints and Security Challenges

    Edited by Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Jacques deLisle ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
    In 2008 Ma Ying-jeou was elected President of Taiwan, and the Kuomintang (KMT) returned to power after eight years of rule by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Since taking power, the KMT has faced serious difficulties, as economic growth has been sluggish, society has been polarised over issues of identity and policy, and rapprochement between Taipei and Beijing has met with suspicion or ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Dangerous Strait

    The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis

    Edited by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Ph.D. ...
    Today the most dangerous place on earth is arguably the Taiwan Strait, where a war between the United States and China could erupt out of miscalculation, misunderstanding, or accident. How and to what degree Taiwan pursues its own national identity will have profound ramifications in its relationship with China as well as in relations between China and the United States.Events late in 2004 ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979

    Development, Political Thought, Democracy, and Cultural Influence

    Edited by Clark W. Sorensen, Hyung-A Kim ...
    Series series Center For Korea Studies Publications
    The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century. In just over three decades, South Korea transformed itself from an underdeveloped, agrarian country into an affluent, industrialized one. At the same time, democracy replaced a long series of military authoritarian regimes. These historic changes began under President Park Chung Hee, who seized power ... Read more

    $40.99 USD