How has North Korea sought to normalize diplomatic relations with the US? Explaining the continuities between the Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-il governments, as well as the discontinuities, especially the decisive move towards brinkmanship under Kim Jong-un culminating in 2017 and subsequent turn towards diplomacy, this book shows how North Korea has constantly learnt from its own experience and the experience of others to evolve and adapt its policy towards the US.  Meer

Ramon Pacheco Pardo provides a groundbreaking analysis of South Korea’s foreign policy from its transition to democracy in the late 1980s through the present day, arguing that the country’s approach to the world constitutes a grand strategy.  Meer

Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau’s watertight reasoning skills.  Meer

Robert O. Keohane’s After Hegemony is both a classic of international relations scholarship and an example of how creative thinking can help shed new light on the world.  Meer

Robert O. Keohane’s After Hegemony is both a classic of international relations scholarship and an example of how creative thinking can help shed new light on the world.  Meer

Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a series of lessons in the applied art of problem solving. Sun (544 BC-496 BC), an experienced general from the Warring States period of Chinese history, saw war as an inevitable problem – indeed, the ultimate problem confronting the state.  Meer

Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a series of lessons in the applied art of problem solving. Sun (544 BC-496 BC), an experienced general from the Warring States period of Chinese history, saw war as an inevitable problem – indeed, the ultimate problem confronting the state.  Meer

Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau’s watertight reasoning skills.  Meer

Charts the incredible rise of South Korea, from colonisation and civil war to today’s thriving nation.  Meer

North Korea is an anomaly in the international system. Deliberately isolated, it survives through the sale of weapons to enemies of the United States.  Meer

North Korea is an anomaly in the international system. Deliberately isolated, it survives through the sale of weapons to enemies of the United States.  Meer

Charts the incredible rise of South Korea, from colonisation and civil war to today's thriving nation.  Meer

How has North Korea sought to normalize diplomatic relations with the US? Explaining the continuities between the Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-il governments, as well as the discontinuities, especially the decisive move towards brinkmanship under Kim Jong-un culminating in 2017 and subsequent turn towards diplomacy, this book shows how North Korea has constantly learnt from its own experience and the experience of others to evolve and adapt its policy towards the US.  Meer

Een fascinerend boek over de geschiedenis van Noord- en Zuid-Korea vanaf de koloniale bezetting door Japan en de splitsing tijdens de Koude Oorlog tot heden ‘Een uitmuntend geschiedenisboek met een visie voor de toekomst.  Meer

A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day  Meer