This book examines North Korea's survival strategy and solutions to a fifty-year nuclear standoff through essays written by thirteen of the world's foremost scholars and experts on strategy, economics, and international relations. The book will be invaluable in helping policy-makers, diplomats,...

Preface and acknowledgments -- History, politics, and theory -- The capitalist unconscious : the Korea question -- The aesthetics of democratic politics : labor, violence, and repetition -- Reparation -- Reparation : Korean Chinese as colonial returnees -- Socialist reparation : Korean Chinese...

"Korea's twin transitions--agrarian to industrial and industrial to post-industrial--effectively transformed the country's political economy. Moving away from the traditional focus on aspects such as market, state and world systems, culture, and colonialism, the author argues that Korea's...