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In this chapter I examine the ‘political economy of diplomacy’ through which both North and South Korea adapted to the post-war international system. I will argue that regime flexibility, and particularly a regime’s ability to adapt to changing conditions in the international political economy, is more important than ideology or social system in explaining the outcomes of diplomacy. Greater regime flexibility is in turn closely associated with the ability to sustain economic development and increase national capabilities. Such economic development is positively associated with the ability to create and sustain a high standing in the international system.
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Barry Gills, ‘Prospects for Peace and Stability in Northeast Asia: The Korean Conflict’ in Conflict Studies, 278 (1995a)
Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987);
Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (New York: Random House, 1987);
Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982).
See Barry Gills, ‘The International Origins of South Korea’s Export Orientation’ in Ronen Palan and Barry Gills (eds), Transcending the State/Global Divide: A Neostructuralist Agenda in International Relations (Boulder, Cl: Lynne Rienner 1993).
Alice Amsden, Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989)
Robert Wade, Governing the Market (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).
Erik Van Ree, ‘The Limits of Juche: North Korea’s Dependence on Soviet Industrial Aid, 1953–76’ in Journal of Communist Studies, 5 (1989) pp. 50–73.
Barry Gills, ‘North Korea and the Crisis of Socialism: The Historical Ironies of National Division’ in Third World Quarterly, 13 (1992) pp. 107–30;
Barry Gills, ‘The Crisis of Socialism in North Korea’ in Barry Gills and Shahid Qadir (eds), Regimes in Crisis: The Post-Soviet Era and the Implications for Development (London, Zed Press, 1995b) pp. 177–209.
Sang-Saek Park, ‘Africa and Korea’ in Korea and World Affairs, 6 (1982) p. 402.
John Merrill, ‘North Korea in 1992: Steering Away from the Shoals’ in Asian Survey, 33 (1993) pp. 43–53.
Peter Nolan, ‘The Chinese Puzzle: Political Economy and the Reform of Stalinism’ in Gills and Qadir (eds), pp. 227–42.
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Gills, B. (1997). The Political Economy of Diplomacy: North and South Korea and the Competition for International Support. In: Kim, D.H., Kong, T.Y. (eds) The Korean Peninsula in Transition. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25141-4_9
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