JSIS B 431/531: International negotiation simulation, winter 2017: Overviews

Six-party talks: overviews

Bajoria, Jayshree, and Carin Zissis, “The Six-Party Talks on North Korea's Nuclear Program,” CFR Backgrounder (July 2009)
Backgrounder on North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program and the Six-Party Talks
Wikipedia: six-party talks
Chronology of U.S.-North Korean Nuclear and Missile Diplomacy

Overviews of recent developments

Comparative Connections
Center for Strategic and International studies e-journal; provides quarterly commentaries on critical bilateral relationships in East Asia by academic/government experts. Volumes 1-12 (1999-2010).
CSIS Pacific Forum, “Tipping Point for the Six-Party Talks?”, Issues and Insights 9, no. 8 (May 2009)
Nautilus Institute Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network
Papers by experts on issues related to North Korea, especially denuclearization and security. See also The DPRK Briefing Book and Policy Forum Archives: 2003.

Focus on developments in 2003

Cha, Victor, Nuclear North Korea: a Debate on Engagement Strategies. New York, Columbia University Press, 2003.
Council on Foreign Relations, “North Korea: U.S. Negotiations”, CFR Backgrounder (June 2003)
Park, Kyung-Ae, “North Korea in 2003”, Asian Survey 44, no. 1 (2004)
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O’Hanlon, et al., Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal with a Nuclear North Korea. New York, McGraw Hill, 2003
Snyder, Scott, Ralph A. Cossa, and Brad Glosserman, “The Six-Party Talks: Developing a Roadmap for Future Progress”, Issues and Insights 5, no. 8 (2005)
Yun, Chong-won. Nuclear Bargaining and North Korea: Conflict, Compromise and Uncertainty. Seoul, Pongmyong Book Publishers, 2003

General background

Chang, Gordon. Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World. New York, Ransom House, 2006.
Chinoy, Mike. Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008
Fitzpatrick, Mark, “Stopping Nuclear North Korea,” Survival 51, no. 4 (2009)
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Grzelcyk, Virginie, “Six Party Talks and Negotiations Strategy: When Do We Get There?”, International Negotiation 14, no. 1 (2009)
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Grzelczyk, Virginie. Ten Years of Dealing with Kim Jong-Il: Can Negotiations Ensure Conflict Resolution? Ph.D Dissertation, University of Maryland, 2006.
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Haggard, Stephan, and Marcus Noland, “Sanctioning North Korea: The Political Economy of Denuclearization and Proliferation”, Asian Survey 50, no. 3 (2010)
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Hecker, Siegfried S., “Lessons Learned from the North Korean Nuclear Crisis”, Daedalus 139, no. 1 (2010)
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Holmes, James R., “Lessons of the Korean War for the 'Six-Party Talks'”, World Affairs 169, no. 1 (2006)
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Huntley, Wade, “Waiting to Exhale: The Six-Party Talks Agreement”, Foreign Policy in Focus (October 25, 2005)
International Crisis Group. North Korea: The Risks of War in the Yellow Sea. Asia Report 198 (December 2010)
Lee, Dong Sun, “A Nuclear North Korea and the Stability of East Asia: A Tsunami on the Horizon?”, Australian Journal of International Affairs 61, no. 4 (2009)
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Levy, Adrian, and Catherine Scott-Clark. Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons. New York: Walker, 2007
Li, Bin, “An Alternative View to North Korea's Bomb Acquisition”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 66, no. 3 (2010)
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Park, John S., “Inside Multilateralism: The Six-Party Talks”, Washington Quarterly 28, no. 4 (Autumn 2005).
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Pritchard, Charles L. Failed Diplomacy: The Tragc Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2007.
Ramberg, Bennett, “Living with Nuclear North Korea,” Survival 51, no. 4 (2009)
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Reiss, Mitchell B., “A Nuclear-Armed North Korea: Accepting the 'Unacceptable'?”, Survival 48, no. 4 (Winter 2006-2007).
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Revere, Evans J., “The North Korea Nuclear Problem: Sailing into Uncharted Waters”, Current 525 (September 2010).
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Rozman, Gilbert. Strategic Thinking About the Korean Nuclear Crisis: Four Parties Caught Between North Korea and the United States. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Saeed, Ferial. Redefining Success: Applying Lessons in Nuclear Diplomacy from North Korea to Iran. Strategic Perspectives #1. Washington, DC: National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies, 2010
Scalapino, Robert A., “In Search of Peace and Stability in the Region Surrounding the Korean Peninsula – Challenges and Opportunities”, American Foreign Policy Interests 28, no. 5 (2006)
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UN Security Council. Security Council Condemns Nuclear Test by Democratic People's Republic of Korea. New York: UN Department of Public Information. Sc/8853
von Hippel, David, and Peter Hayes. Engaging the DPRK Enrichment and Small LWR Program: What Would It Take? San Francisco: The Nautilus Institute, 2010.
Wit, Joel S., Daniel B. Poneman, Robert L. Gallucci. Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2004
Carpenter, Ted Galen, “Plan B for Dealing with North Korea”, Policy 26, no. 2 (2010)
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Chanlett-Avery, Emma, and Sharon Squassoni. North Korea's Nuclear Test: Motivations, Implications, and U.S. Options. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2008. RL33709
Hathaway, Robert M., “Just Whose Side is Time On?: North Korea and George W. Bush, 2001-4”, Journal of Asian and African Studies 42, no. 3-4 (2007)
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Sutter, Robert, “The Obama Administration and US Policy in Asia”, Contemporary Southeast Asia 31, no. 2 (2009)
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Wit, Joel. U.S. Strategy towards North Korea: Rebuilding Dialogue and Engagement. San Francisco: The Nautilus Institute, 2009

Additional resources

North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons: Technical Issues (CRS report)
Text of the Agreed Framework