North Korea and the Science of Provocation: Fifty Years of Conflict-Making (Paperback)

from clarkcrossing

I am sure for political scientists this is an interesting book, but it was so far over my head I could barely grasp for it. He condenses many studies to figure out the relationships between North Korea's hostile actions and other variables. I don't have a working knowledge on Korean history, like...

from sherman1951

Why does North Korea act so belligerently in international relations? Robert Daniel Wallace, writing in a very academic approach attempts to answer this question through a qualitative analysis of several case studies and a quantitative analysis and claims he has found a "statistically significant...

from FCClibraryoshkosh

This book is one of the clearest, most powerful books on North Korea. It doesn't focus on the human rights abuses, though it does discuss them. Instead it views North Korea on the international stage and asks what few policy experts do, "Why does this nation do what it does?" That question is her...

from DoctorDebt

Clear. Concise. Well-written. Dense. These are the four things that come to mind when describing Robert Daniel Wallace's "North Korea and the Science of Provocation." This book is not meant for the casual reader. It is an academic study of North Korea's foreign policy, with an eye towards analyzi...

from nmele

This excellent book examines the structure of and likely factors causing North Korea's hostile foreign policy actions, from invective to nuclear weapons tests. Wallace has done a lot of research and his basic assumption is that the North Korean leadership is rational (a position I have long espou...